Education

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.

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).

When Launch Canada recently pivoted its competition-based experience for students into figuring out how to fire a rocket engine, Stein Industries division Stein Astronautics was among the companies helping out.

“No-one in company history has ever been pregnant!” Julia Gibson’s remark on employee diversity was one of the highlights of the panel on the Zenith Canada Pathways Fellowship.

The International Space Apps Challenge created by NASA is set for the first weekend of October globally including in a record nine Canadian cities.

Earlier this year the Zenith Canada Pathways Foundation announced its presence with the goal of helping young students and professionals. Today they announced that applications are being accepted for their space fellowships.