Deep Space High - Space Camp

2011年，STFC颁发了“有趣的孩子”小型活动补助金，通过一系列名为“深空高”的演讲节目，帮助儿童及其家人加深对太空的理解。我们深空高中的目标是与孩子们互动，介绍和突出太空的有趣一面，并激励孩子和家长通过有组织的教育或作为娱乐兴趣来发现更多。为了帮助制作和最大限度地提高儿童的意识，我们将系列分成两个迷你系列，每个系列10个特色，称为“奇妙的任务”（重点是从先锋和天空实验室到国际空间站和SETI的任务）和“宇宙手册”（研究与太空探索有关的更广泛的主题，包括各种太空望远镜，观察宇宙，空间对人体的影响，测量空间，超级燃料和（理论）捷径）。该系列自2012年7月开始在Fun Kids上播放，你可以在Fun Kids网站和iPad应用程序上再次收听，也可以在iTunes上免费下载。我们还在Fun Kids网站上创建了一个专门的微网站，用户可以在这里找到更多的信息、图片、视频、下载和职业信息，以及在STFC和其他商定的网站上找到更多信息的链接。对这些系列的反应很大。自推出以来，该系列已被19.91万名6至12岁的儿童和7.73万名成年人收听。此外，iTunes上的音频下载量达到2510次，每周的下载量还在不断增长。但由于深空高台仍有大量的空间有待探索，通过“太空营”，我们提出了3个进一步的迷你系列，以了解太空探索的更详细方面以及英国在这些方面的参与。这部新剧将讲述深空高中的老师和学生们踏上探索地球和太阳的实地考察之旅，以及英国在太空探索中的参与。这些内容丰富、鼓舞人心的特稿是为9至12岁的核心儿童观众而写的，尽管根据经验，我们知道年龄较小和较大的儿童以及父母和照顾者也会听这些特稿。因此，第二个好处是鼓励父母和年长的兄弟姐妹也去发现，或者制定一个家庭计划来学习更多。我们将通过直播、网站上的在线页面和横幅、每周时事通讯中的社论和相关新闻活动来宣传该系列。我们也会与学校沟通，让他们了解这个系列。该系列将受益于现有的深空高品牌，并为该工作提供附加价值。为了进一步帮助听众建立对该系列的认识，我们将在项目期间举办一系列为期一周的比赛。这些将以简单的问答比赛的形式，让孩子们有机会赢得书籍（我们可以协助采购）和其他合适的奖品（我们可以讨论）。在项目即将结束时，我们建议举办一场以太空为主题的短篇小说写作比赛，并将最好的故事录制并在Fun Kids上播放，并可供下载。我们发现，这样的竞赛有助于激发孩子和家庭更多地了解太空，并围绕这些主题进行思考。我们将通过听众对功能的反应、下载数量、在线访问量以及与我们的家长小组进行的直接调查、参加比赛的情况以及第三方网站的点击量来衡量成功与否。我们还将通过谷歌Analytics审查对支持在线材料的反应。我们的总体目标是帮助进一步提高孩子们对太空和英国参与的总体理解，并激励孩子们和他们的家庭去发现更多，也许有一些孩子在学校学习科学，并可能成为未来的职业

In 2011, the STFC awarded Fun Kids a Small Engagement grant to help increase understanding of space amongst children and their families through a series of speech features, entitled 'Deep Space High'. Our aim for Deep Space High was to engage with children, introduce and highlight the fun side of space, and inspire children and parents to find out more, either through organised education or as a recreational interest.To assist production and maximise awareness with children, we split the series into 2 mini series of 10 features each, called 'Marvellous Missions' (with the focus on missions from Pioneer and Skylab, to ISS and SETI) and 'Universe Handbook' (looking at a broader range of topics relating to space exploration including varieties of space telescopes, observing the universe, effects of space on human bodies, measuring space, superfuels and (theoretical) shortcuts). The series have been broadcast on Fun Kids since July 2012, are available to listen again on the Fun Kids website and iPad app, and as free downloads on iTunes. We also created a dedicated micro-site on the Fun Kids website, with users able to find additional information, images, videos, downloads and careers information, plus links to find out more at the STFC and other agreed websites.Reaction to these series has been significant. Since launch, the series has been heard by 199,100 children aged 6 to 12, and 77,300 adults. In addition, there have been 2,510 downloads of the audio through iTunes, with a growing level of weekly downloads. But with a substantial amount of space for Deep Space High still to explore, through "Space Camp" we propose 3 further mini series to look at more detailed aspects of space exploration and Britain's involvement in these. The new series will follow the Deep Space High teachers and pupils as they embark on field trips to explore the Earth and the Sun, as well as the UK's involvement in space exploration. The informative and inspirational features will be written for a core child audience aged 9 to 12 year olds, although from experience we know that both younger and older children will also listen to the features, as well as parents and carers. A secondary benefit is therefore encouraging parents and older siblings to also discover, and perhaps develop a family plan to learn more.We will promote the series on-air, with online pages and banners on our website, editorial in our weekly newsletter and associated press activity. We will also communicate with schools to make them aware of the series. The series will benefit and build upon the existing Deep Space High brand, providing added value to that work. To further help build awareness of the series amongst listeners, we will run a number of week long competitions during the project period. These will be in the form of simple Q&A competitions with opportunities for children to win books (we can assist with sourcing) and possibly other suitable prizes (which we can discuss). Towards the end of the project period, we propose to run a short story writing competition on a space theme, with the best stories recorded and broadcast on Fun Kids and available for download. We find that such competitions help inspire children and families to find out more about space, and think around the topics. We will measure success through listener reaction to the features, download numbers, online visits as well as direct research with our parent panel, entries to the competitions and by the level of click thrus to third party websites. We will also review reaction to the supporting online material through Google Analytics.The overall impact that we aim to achieve is to help further increase children's general understanding of space and the UK's involvement, and to inspire children and their families to find out more, with perhaps a few children taking up science at school and as possible future career