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	Space School China


	A residential week of exciting space events and activities in Beijing

Last summer around 70 Chinese and UK students took part in the first Space School in China based on the innovative Space School UK in Beijing. Eight lucky Chinese students also travelled to UK to spend a week at Space School UK.

Building on the success of last year’s Space School, in association with Beijing Planetarium, we organised Space School 2003 in August; an exciting week of activities – including a rocket building competition - where participants got to learn about space and space science.

		Rocket building classes: Design and build your own spaceship!

		Working in teams, students are taught how to design and build a small spacecraft, which is launched on a miniature rocket. The spacecraft has to detach from the rocket, at altitude, deploy landing gear and return to the ground safely.

		Project Draco

		Project Draco is a co-operative project about planetary science. Teams of students are presented with artefacts and data, which have been discovered on an ”alien planet”. Teams must carry out experiments to find out the origin of the artefacts.

		Explore Mars

		Mars is likely to be explored by manned expeditions within the next fifty years. Since Mars has a very different environment to Earth, a Mars base needs to be designed and built. What factors need to be taken into account in the design? How will the base be supplied? How will the project be managed and costs kept under control? What resources are needed to sustain a team of explorers on the Red Planet?

		Space robots

		Teams compete to find the best solution to a technical problem, whereby they must find, collect and recover a sample of soil from the surface of Mars, using a robot vehicle, which they can control.

Space lectures

UK space experts deliver stimulating talks about the latest developments in space science and UK space technology.

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