Space Explorers

这个项目将看到康威艺术信托基金会与黑暗天空威尔士培训，雷切尔·罗森（艺术家），安迪·纽萨姆教授和场地Cymru合作，以实现我们的目标，或利用创造性的艺术来进一步了解天文学和黑暗天空。北威尔士很幸运，有一大片区域被指定为黑暗天空保护区。公众对此的意识普遍较低，我们希望与年轻人和他们的家人合作，提高他们的理解，激发他们，激励他们成为黑暗天空的大使。我们的主要目标群体是年轻人（小学晚期和中学早期的学生）和家庭。我们希望把重点放在该县较贫困地区的社区和学校。根据政府的多重贫困指数，其中一些人在威尔士最贫困的10%之内。为了最大限度地扩大我们的影响力，我们将在每年吸引10,000人的场馆Cymru“参与”艺术和科学节上启动我们的项目。这将使我们能够与大量的人接触，以增加当地对黑暗天空保护区和天文学的了解。在启动之后，我们将开展两个以学校为基础的项目，一个针对小学，一个针对中学，目的是培养一批对天文学有更深理解的年轻人，而不是他们通常在学校学到的。我们会在学校举办持续专业进修课程，以分享我们的教学资源，并确保这项计划在学校内具有遗留效益，使教师能够教更多的年轻人。我们将举办几次旅行，向孩子和老师展示STEM行业的第一手活动，鼓励他们进一步学习和选择STEM职业。在项目结束时，我们将举办一个活动来庆祝这个项目，并将确保这个活动包括孩子的父母和家庭。孩子们将利用这个活动与他们的观众分享他们的知识，目的是加深社区对黑暗天空的理解和欣赏。为了扩大我们的影响范围，我们还将在Cymru场馆为Cymru场馆的小学生举办太空俱乐部。在北威尔士工作给我们带来了很多挑战，比如获得资金，以及年轻人进入主要文化、艺术或科学机构的机会有限或根本没有。偏远的地理位置和后工业遗产的结合促成了这一点。在沿海的老海滨度假胜地等地区，贫困和低社会流动性意味着人们并不总是能从附近令人惊叹的景观和福利中受益。我们想用这个项目向我们的年轻人展示他们自己的后院和遥远的宇宙是多么令人兴奋，我们想给他们工具去了解他们头顶上的天空，珍惜他们祖先讲述的历史和故事，激励他们为下一代保护世界和我们著名的黑暗天空。我们的项目将提高威尔士和英国公众对黑暗天空的认识，培养一批能够分享他们的知识并激励他人的年轻人。它将有助于健康和福祉，展示一系列积极的榜样和跨学科的方法，以及促进STEM作为项目的核心。它将提高国家学校天文台正在开展的工作的知名度，并鼓励使用其网站和资源。该项目还将产生教学工具，我们将在Cymru教师论坛上分享，并通过社交媒体和网站更广泛地分享。我们希望将这个项目作为试点，并将其扩展到整个威尔士和英国的其他学校。

This project will see the Conwy Arts Trust working in partnership with Dark Skies Wales Training, Rachel Rosen (artist), Professor Andy Newsam and Venue Cymru to achieve our aim or using the creative arts to further knowledge of astronomy and dark skies.North Wales is lucky to have a large area which is a designated Dark Sky Reserve. Public awareness of this is generally low and we want to work with young people, and their families, to improve their understanding, excite them and inspire them to be ambassadors for dark skies.Our key target groups will be young people (late primary and early secondary age pupils) and families. We hope to focus on communities and schools from the more deprived areas of the County. Some of these rank within the 10% most deprived in Wales on the Government's index of multiple deprivation.In order to maximise our reach we will launch our project at the Venue Cymru 'take pART' arts and science festival that attracts 10,000 people annually. This will enable us to engage with large numbers of people to increase the local knowledge of the Dark Sky Reserve and of astronomy.Following the launch, we will run two schools based programmes, one for a primary school and one for a secondary school with the aim of creating a cohort of young people who have a deeper understanding of astronomy than they would normally gain in school. We will run CPD twilight sessions at the schools in order to share our teaching resources and ensure that this project has legacy benefits within the schools, allowing teachers to teach further cohorts of young people. We will run several trips to show children and teachers STEM industry activities first-hand, inspiring further study and STEM career choices. At the end of the project we will run an event to celebrate the project and will ensure that this event includes the parents and families of the children. The children will use this event to share their knowledge with their audience with the aim of deepening understanding and appreciation of Dark Sky within the community.In order to broaden our reach, we will also run a Space Club at Venue Cymru for primary school children at Venue Cymru.Working in North Wales presents challenges for us in terms of gaining funding and young people having limited or no access to major institutions - cultural, artistic or scientific. A combination of having a remote geography and a post-industrial legacy contributes to this. Poverty and low social mobility in areas like the old seaside resorts along the coast mean people do not always benefit from the amazing landscape and wellbeing benefits nearby. We want to use this project to show our young people how exciting both their own back yard and the far universe is, we want to give them the tools to understand the sky above them, to cherish the history and stories told by their ancestors and to inspire them to protect the world and our famous dark skies for the next generation.Our project will increase public awareness of dark skies in Wales and the UK, creating a cohort of young people able to share their knowledge and enthuse others. It will contribute to health and well-being, demonstrate a range of positive role models and inter-disciplinary approaches, as well as the promotion of STEM at the core of the project. It will raise the profile of the work being undertaken by the National Schools' Observatory and encourage use of their website and resources. The project will also generate teaching tools that we will share at the Venue Cymru Teachers Forum and more widely via social media and websites.We would like to use this project as a pilot, with a view to expanding it into other schools throughout Wales and the UK.