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NASA – Waid Academy students get mention in Scottish Parliament – UK Space Design Competition
The winning team from the University of Edinburgh regional competition not only went on to be part of the winning team at the UKSDC finals, with four team members going to the ISSDC at the Kennedy Space Center, but now have
Team selected from the winning competition to represent the UK at the ISSDC
Congratulations to the following students who have been selected to represent the UK at the International Space Settlement Design Competition at the Kennedy Space Center in July Jan Apolin – Bedes Maria Uringa – Waid Academy Finn Ractliffe – Bedes Rory Hamilton – Waid Academy Eve Bracken-Ingram – Waid Academy Shubhangi Mehta – Henrietta Barnett
UK Space Design Competition 2019 Winning Company
A team of students have just been crowned the winners of the 2019 UK Space Design Competition, following a busy weekend (16-17th March) of designing at Imperial College London. This year’s competition saw 250 young people, aged 15 to 18, from all over the UK take on the challenge of designing a space settlement in
Winning Company 2019 UKSDC Finals
The winning company – Grumbo Aerospace from Dulwich College, Waid Academy, Scotland, Bede’s Senior School and Henrietta Barnet. Students arriving early Saturday at Imperial College main entrance. The David Dangoor award for innovative ideas and the Richard Edwards award for Quiet Leadership.
2019 UKSDC Finals Programme Book
Download Finals 2019 Programme Book
Video Competition Results 2019
Thank you for all of the great videos you sent in – once again you have impressed with your intelligence, imagination and enthusiasm. The lengthy deliberations of the judges are finally over, and the following are their selection to join the finals in March: (in alphabetical order) Bede’s Bournemouth School for Girls’ The Brooksbank School
New video of 2018 UKSDC finals at Imperial College
Ed Knowles video
How We Think and Learn
How We Think And Learn Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929 Catherine Twomey Fosnot Most people assume that learning results from teachers transmitting knowledge: clearly explaining concepts, procedures to be practiced, and facts to be memorized; then testing to assess retention
Why does the space competition work?
Randall Perry March 30,2018 I am often asked why the Space Design Competition (SDC) format works. Whilst my quick fire response when in the throes of organising an event is often, “It’s all the students’ own work, not ours”; this does belie the research and development that underpins the setting up
2018 Finals Marcus du Sautoy
UK Space Design Competition Finals 2018 It was great to join all the students this weekend who took part in the UK Space Design Competition finals for 2018. This year the students were transported forward to the year 2038 where they were tasked with designing Bellevistat, a space settlement in orbit around the Earth-Moon L4 libration