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On Tuesday 5 July 2011 ESERO-UK hosted a dedicated space education day for primary and secondary teachers at the inaugural UK Space Conference at the University of Warwick.

Over 100 teachers attended a day packed full of inspiring keynote presentations from speakers such as Lucie Green and Professor David Cullen covering topics ranging from the 'hunt for alien life' to 'living in the Sun's atmosphere'. The day also included a number of engaging, interactive workshops covering topics including careers, space experiments to run in school and a showcase of the Faulkes Telescope and the National Schools Observatory, and much more besides. A dedicated student outreach day featuring exciting experiments and demonstrations for Year 6 and Year 7 students was also run concurrently by Space Connections.

For all those wishing to download the presentations from the talks they attended, or perhaps catch up on some of those that they missed, please find all our speaker presentations / workshops available to download at the bottom of this page. These include:

• Astrobiology - the hunt for alien life - Lewis Dartnell
• Careers in Space workshop - Astrium Apprenticeship opportunities - Lloyd Marshall
• Careers in Space workshop - Astrium STEM Ambassadors - Vicki Hodges
• Careers in Space workshop - Space Tourism and the Next Generation - Rosalind Azouzi
• Earth Observation: Science, Maths and Geography - Stuart Eves
• Faulkes Telescope and National Schools Observatory - Paul Roche and Andy Newsam
• Key Stage 2 / Key Stage 3 Transition - Judith Green
• Leading Space Education programme: Re-designing Year 8 Science - Mark Smith
• Living in the Sun's atmosphere - Lucie Green
• Making Space in the timetable (Astronomy in the Curriculum, Qualifications at KS4 and KS5) - Charles Barclay
• National Space Centre - Space Academy - Sarah Hill
• Rocket Launcher Make and Take - Gary Williams
• The search for life on Mars - Professor David Cullen
• The secret rulers of the world - space science, conspiracy theories and science education - Anu Ojha
• Using space resources in primary schools (the ESA International Space Station primary package) - Mike Grocott

The day was a big triumph with some great feedback from the teachers that attended, and ESERO-UK would like to take this opportunity to thank all our speakers, exhibitors and partner organisations that helped make the day so successful.