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

自2015年以来，SMASHfestUK已经从伦敦东南部的一个小型STEM音乐节发展成为一个全年互动的项目。2017/18年度，我们已收到资金(英国航天局和皇家工程院)，用于在伦敦以外的其他服务不足的社区开展试点活动。我们正与斯旺西科学节/大学合作，在南威尔士山谷的一个后工业采矿小镇内斯创建SMASHfestUK。内斯是社区优先区(威尔士政府)，也是西南威尔士达成更广泛合作伙伴关系的关键目标区域(斯旺西大学牵头)，以吸引不太可能参与主要节日的人。我们希望在那里“能力建设”；建立一支由当地领导人、积极参与的研究人员、活动家和年轻的讲解员组成的团队，并将培训他们执行以前在伦敦举办的活动(“小行星”、“太阳风暴”和“超级火山”)。RAE/UKSA的资金用于支付地球和天空之旅的一些制作成本，但不包括STFC牵头的“青年探险者”(YE)项目(2016年成功试行，其中两人目前正在学习物理学学士学位)。我们这一计划的下一步是《青年创新者》。)新社区的能力建设。YI从Neath的学校招募来将工作在‘太空夏令营’，探索太空探索的科学&我们如何在太空和其他星球上居住，并在灾难意味着离开地球时进行重建。活动将包括：小行星展览(合作伙伴：格林威治皇家天文台)如何制造小行星(讲习班)与当地天文学家进行太阳恒星观测使用碳酸饮料瓶建造火箭。建造通信系统(水晶无线电、光纤摩尔斯码)；导航(建造和使用六分仪，制作地球和天空地图)。空气和水过滤及回收。设计和设计空间港/卫星/空间栖息地/空间碎片捕获系统。YE计划的重点是教育和促进活动，YIS将致力于为2018年SMASHfestUK共同创作一个大型的互动‘太空生活’装置。“太空生活”将从Neath开始，然后通过米德尔塞克斯大学设计工程与数学系、斯旺西大学、格林威治创意工业大学、卢瑟福·阿普尔顿实验室、德普特福德绿色学校D&T部门和多米尼克·威尔科克斯的青年发明家计划支持的联合研讨会，将来自威尔士的YIS和来自伦敦的YIS联系起来。MDXDEM和格林威治将与YIS一起领导他们的太空发明的直接开发、展示和建设。斯旺西大学将提供科学和工程方面的咨询，卢瑟福·阿普尔顿实验室也将提供咨询。Deptford Green School 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。多米尼克·威尔科克斯的青年发明家计划将与参与的小学的设计想法和发明合作，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YIS的经验进行外部验证。该方案将为STEM积极分子创造一个独特的技术和创意生态，从小学到中学、中学、大学和高级专业人员，致力于一个独特的以空间为重点的STEM公共参与项目，并具有总体叙事。SMASHfestUK参与模式(叙事主导和调查驱动，旨在增加受众中的科学资本)在伦敦以外的地方推出，以测试其稳健性，以及将YE模式发展为“青年创新者”，是我们现阶段证据收集的最后一个要素。如果证据支持这项工作，我们将在此基础上申请2018年更大的赠款资金(STFC、大彩票、惠康信托协会奖的大奖)，以实现长期可持续。

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.