Education

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) want to put young students into virtual lunar rovers, and it’s looking for help to make it happen.

Team Zephyr, made up of BC’s Fraser Heights and Byrne Creek Secondary schools will represent Canada at the upcoming European Space Agency’s CanSat competition.

The McGill Bicentennial Space Research Conference held this week was one of the first in person events at McGill University since the pandemic took hold. The following overview of some of the sessions is contributed by Upasana Dasgupta, a doctoral student at the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University.

Several high school teams plan an amateur rocketry showdown on April 30 in Lethbridge, Alberta as part of the CanSat Design Challenge for Secondary Schools.

At the 37th Space Symposium, Stardust Technologies which had already made news for its partnership on the Rocket Innovation Challenge, today announced the details of its new not-for-profit Stardust Alliance.

SEDS Canada is launching a new mentorship membership program that provides mentors to students with additional benefits for an annual fee of $12.

Zenith Canada Pathways Foundation, the not-for-profit organization founded in 2020 which aims to develop students and keep that talent in Canada working in the space sector, has selected its first class of fellows.

On Saturday, February 19, 2022, Jason Michaud, CEO of Stardust Technologies along with several Ontario organizations and one international university unveiled plans for a proposed 115 acres research facility based in the Northeastern Ontario community of Cochrane. The facility will also focus on STEM education. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. …

The million-dollar Base 11 Space Challenge is over. It did however reveal the immense skill and dedication of Canada’s student rocketry teams. But questions still linger over how the Challenge ended, why there was no winner, and what caused Base 11’s public silence about its end.

The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS Canada) have selected four university teams to compete in their annual Canadian Reduced Gravity Experiment Design Challenge (CAN-RGX).