The Earth and Sky Tour: Building capacity for hyperlocal STEM engagement with astronomy at hubs in England and Wales

地球与天空之旅：在英格兰和威尔士的中心建设超本地 STEM 与天文学接触的能力

• 批准号: ST/R001715/1
• 负责人: Lindsay Keith
• 金额: $ 1.91万
• 依托单位: University of Greenwich
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FR001715%2F1
• 关键词: Earth; Sky; Tour; Building; capacity

Since 2015, SMASHfestUK has developed from a small local STEM festival in SE London, to a programme of year-round interactive engagements. For 2017/18 we have received funding (UK Space Agency and Royal Academy of Engineering) to pilot activities outside London in other underserved communities.We are partnering with Swansea Science Festival/University to create a SMASHfestUK in Neath - a post-industrial mining town in the South Wales valleys.Neath is a Communities First area (Welsh Government) and a key target area for the South West Wales Reaching Wider partnership, (Swansea University lead), to engage people who will be unlikely to engage with the main festival. We wish to "capacity build" there; creating a team of local leaders, engaged researchers, activists and young explainers and will train them in the delivery of events previously run in London, ("asteroid," "solar storm" and "supervolcano"). RAE/UKSA funding covers some production costs of the Earth and Sky Tour but excludes the STFC-lead 'Young Explainer' (YE) programme, (successfully piloted in 2016 with 2 of that cohort now studying physics BSc. Our next step for this programme; 'Young Innovators'.) and capacity building within new communities.YI's recruited from schools in Neath will work on 'Space Camp', exploring the science of space exploration & how we populate space & other planets and rebuild if a disaster means leaving Earth. Activities will include: Asteroid exhibition (Partner: Royal Observatory Greenwich)How to make asteroids (workshops)Solar Stargazing with local astronomersBuild a rocket using fizzy drinks bottles.Building communications system (crystal radios, optic fibre morse code).Navigation (building and using sextants, creating earth and sky maps).Air and water filtering and recycling.Design & engineer a spaceport/satellite/space habitat/space debris capture systems. Where the YE programme is focuses on education & facilitation of events, YIs will work on co-creating a major interactive 'Living in Space' installation for SMASHfestUK 2018."Living in Space" will begin in Neath, then connect YIs from Wales with those from London through joint workshops supported by Middlesex University Department of Design Engineering & Mathematics, Swansea University, University of Greenwich Creative Industries, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Deptford Green School D&T Department & Dominic Wilcox's Young Inventors programme. MDXDEM & Greenwich will lead on direct development, manifestation & building of their space inventions with the YIs. Swansea University will consult on science & engineering, as will Rutherford Appleton Lab. Deptford Green School D&T students will partner with YIs, MDXDEM undergraduate students & professional scientists & engineers, to design & develop elements of "Living in Space". Dominic Wilcox's Young Inventors programme will partner & work with design ideas & inventions to feed into the development thinking, from participating primary schools. As part of the YI scheme, we'll pilot CREST certification, to ensure quality & give external validation to the YIs experiences. The programme will create a unique technical & creative ecology of STEM activists, ranging from primary school, through secondary, post-secondary, university & through to senior professional, working on a unique space-focussed, STEM public engagement project with an overarching narrative. This rolling out of the SMASHfestUK engagement model (narrative-lead & inquiry driven, designed to increase science capital in its audience) outside London to test its robustness, & the development of the YE model to "Young Innovators, is the last element of evidence gathering in our present phase. If evidence supports this work, we will be building on this by applying for larger grant funding (large awards from STFC, Big Lottery, Wellcome Trust Society Award) for 2018 onwards in order to become sustainable long term.

自2015年以来，SMASHfestUK已经从伦敦东南部的一个小型本地STEM节发展成为一个全年互动的项目。2017/18年度，我们获得了资助。（英国航天局和皇家工程学院）在伦敦以外的其他服务不足的社区开展试点活动。我们与斯旺西科学节/大学合作，在南威尔士山谷的后工业采矿城镇尼思创建SMASHfestUK。尼思是一个社区优先地区（威尔士政府）和西南威尔士达成更广泛的伙伴关系的一个关键目标领域，（斯旺西大学牵头），让那些不太可能参与主要节日的人参与进来。我们希望在那里进行“能力建设”;建立一个由当地领导人、从事研究工作的研究人员、活动家和年轻解释者组成的团队，并将培训他们如何举办以前在伦敦举办的活动（“小行星”、“太阳风暴”和“超级火山”）。RAE/UKSA资助涵盖了地球和天空之旅的一些制作成本，但不包括STFC领导的“年轻解释者”（YE）计划（2016年成功试点，其中2人现在学习物理学理学士）。我们的下一个项目：“青年创新者”。从尼思学校招募的YI将在“太空营”工作，探索太空探索的科学，以及我们如何在太空和其他星球上居住，如果灾难意味着离开地球，我们将如何重建。活动将包括：小行星展（合作伙伴：皇家天文台格林威治）如何使小行星（讲习班）太阳观星与当地天文学家建立一个火箭使用碳酸饮料瓶。建设通信系统（晶体收音机，光纤莫尔斯码）。导航（建设和使用六分仪，创建地球和天空地图）。空气和水过滤和回收。设计和工程师一个航天港/卫星/太空栖息地/太空碎片捕获系统。YE计划的重点是教育和促进活动，YIs将致力于为SMASHfestUK 2018共同创建一个主要的互动“生活在太空”装置。“太空生活”将在尼思开始，然后通过由米德尔塞克斯大学设计工程与数学系、斯旺西大学、格林威治创意产业大学、卢瑟福阿普尔顿实验室、德特福德绿色学校D&T系和多米尼克威尔科克斯的青年发明家计划支持的联合研讨会，将威尔士的青年与伦敦的青年联系起来。MDXDEM和格林威治将领导直接发展，表现和建设他们的空间发明与易。斯旺西大学将在科学和工程咨询，将卢瑟福阿普尔顿实验室。德特福德绿色学校的D&T学生将与YIs，MDXDEM本科生和专业科学家和工程师合作，设计和开发“生活在太空”的元素。Dominic Wilcox的青年发明家计划将与参与小学的设计理念和发明合作，以融入发展思维。作为YI计划的一部分，我们将试行CREST认证，以确保质量并对YI的经验进行外部验证。该计划将为STEM活动家创造一个独特的技术和创意生态，从小学，中学，大专，大学到高级专业人员，致力于一个独特的以空间为重点的STEM公众参与项目，具有总体叙述。在伦敦之外推出SMASHfestUK参与模式（叙事引导和调查驱动，旨在增加受众的科学资本）以测试其稳健性，以及将YE模式发展为“青年创新者”，是我们目前阶段收集证据的最后一个要素。如果有证据支持这项工作，我们将在此基础上申请更大的赠款资金（STFC，Big Lottery，Wellcome Trust Society Award的大型奖项），以便在2018年以后实现可持续发展。

项目成果

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C2I 2017：灾难电影 STEM 节秘密教授科学

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Excell J.

Engaging through disaster: Reaching new audiences with SMASHfestUK

参与灾难：通过 SMASHfestUK 吸引新观众

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Griffiths W.

An Ingenious Introduction to Engineering: SMASHfestUK The Earth and Sky Tour

巧妙的工程学介绍：SMASHfestUK 地球与天空之旅

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Sale P.

INGENIOUS Survival at SMASHfestUK

SMASHfestUK 的巧妙生存

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Griffiths W.