Space Science Celebration

这里概述的项目扩展了以前的STFC奇迹比赛事件。在这个扩展项目中，我们将与SOCOPA周六俱乐部举办一系列研讨会。这将包括让学生决定如何展示他们在研讨会期间获得的知识的会议，这些知识将在额外的“太空庆祝活动”中展示。太空庆祝活动将在圣马修斯社区中心举行。它将作为一个科学博览会风格的活动，邀请家长，家庭和更广泛的索马里社区参加。学生将在太空庆典活动期间决定活动的内容和形式。为了准备庆祝活动，学生们将通过参观物理和天文学系以及国家航天中心来扩大他们的经验。我们已经获得了国家航天中心参观的折扣入场费。为了将他们的发现传达给他们的家庭和社区，学生们需要对自己的知识充满信心。所有的学生将得到合作伙伴的支持，尝试空间庆祝活动的想法和结构，在此事件举行之前。通过鼓励学生自己展示研讨会的科学，并给他们创造性的自由，他们如何做到这一点，学生将获得重要的可转移技能在演示和沟通。球体科学将参加所有会议，并将提供连续性，合作伙伴之间的沟通，并支持在庆祝活动中准备自信的年轻演讲者。在我们之前的两次Wonder Match会议上，我们收集了关于Post-委员会注意到，这些记录被整理在工作室一侧的一块板上。我们收到的评论如下：“期待着与家人和朋友交流他们所学到的东西”，以及“享受了实际的实验，并发现了北方灯光，月相和太阳紫外线”。我们还发现SOCOPA俱乐部的成员有很多关于空间科学的问题。这个项目允许参与SOCOPA的学生在几个月的时间里接触到STFC的专家研究人员。这使得学生和研究人员之间能够获得一定程度的信任和理解，因此不太自信的学生有机会询问有关科学或继续教育的问题。该项目的另一个成果是，圣马修斯地区的家庭和更广泛的社区将对空间科学有更多的了解，并增加对莱斯特大学和国家航天中心提供的设施的了解。在太空庆典活动期间，演讲可以用英语或他们的母语（学生认为合适）进行，让他们判断在友好的环境中与观众交流的最佳方式。物理支持的SOCOPA星期六俱乐部的社区领袖将由莱斯特物理专家大学提供。在星期六俱乐部的会议还可以告知这些教师和实习教师最近和相关的空间研究在莱斯特，这有助于扩大教师的背景信息。所有合作伙伴的长期愿望是建立SOCOPA和学术合作伙伴之间的联系，以便进一步的连接和机会可以获得。例如，这可以采取辅导的形式，或者在学生完成学业期间就学校课程进行额外咨询，新的、更年轻的学生可能开始参加星期六俱乐部。

The project outlined here expands that of a previous STFC Wonder Match event. In this expanded project, we will hold a series of workshops with the SOCOPA Saturday Club. This will include sessions for the students to decide how they will present the knowledge gained during the workshops, that will be shown at an additional 'Space Celebration Event'. The Space Celebration Event will be held at the St. Matthews Community Centre. It will be run as a science fair style event, where parents, families, and the wider Somali community is invited to attend. Students will decide the content and format of the activities during the Space Celebration event. To prepare for the celebration event, the students will widen their experiences by visiting the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and also the National Space Centre. We have secured a discounted entrance fee for the National Space Centre visit. To communicate their findings to their families and community, the students will need to be confident in their knowledge. All students will receive support from the partners to try out ideas and structure for the Space Celebration event, before this event is held. By encouraging the students to present the science of the workshops themselves and giving them creative freedom for how they do this, the students will gain important transferable skills in presentation and communication.Sphere Science will attend all the sessions and will provide continuity, communication between the partners, and support in preparing confident young presenters at the Celebration Event.At our previous two Wonder Match sessions we collected feedback on Post-it notes that were collated on a board placed at the side of the workshop room. We received comments such as: 'Looking forward to communicating what they have learnt to family and friends', and 'Have enjoyed the practical experiments and have found out about the Northern Lights, moon phases and UV light from the Sun'. We also discovered that the SOCOPA club members had many, many questions about space science.This project allows students involved with SOCOPA to have access to expert STFC researchers over a period of several months. This allows a level of trust and understanding to be gained between the students and the researchers, so that less confident pupils have the opportunity to ask questions regarding science or further education options throughout. Another outcome of this project is that the families and wider community in the St. Matthews area will have a greater understanding of space science, and also increased knowledge of the University of Leicester and facilities offered at the National Space Centre. During the Space Celebration event, the presentations may be given in English or in their home language (as the students see fit), allowing them to judge the optimal way to communicate with their audience in a friendly environment. Physics support for the community leaders of the SOCOPA Saturday Club will be provided by University of Leicester physics experts. The sessions at the Saturday Club can also inform these teachers and trainee teachers about recent and relevant space research at Leicester which helps with broadening teachers background information.A long-term desire of all partners is to establish links between SOCOPA and the academic partners, so that further connections and opportunities can be gained. This may be in the form of mentoring, for example, or additional consultations regarding the school curriculum, as the students move through their academic careers, and that newer, younger students are likely to begin to attend the Saturday Club.