Agency 09/11/2021 204 views 10 likes In brief Over 100 students from three teams of the third Fly Your Satellite! cycle – AcubeSAT (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), SOURCE (University of Stuttgart, Germany), and UCAnFly (University of Cádiz, Spain) – have successfully completed their Phase D workshop. Held between 18 […]
Day: November 14, 2021
Team OSCAR-QUBE awarded the Hans von Muldau Team Award at IAC
Agency 09/11/2021 205 views 12 likes Back in September of this year, the OSCAR-QUBE team was celebrating a successful hardware integration into the ISS’s ICE Cubes facility by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet. This was done in part of the ESA Education Office’s OYT! programme, in which the students must propose […]
LPS 2022 Climate Detectives School Award
Agency 11/11/2021 220 views 14 likes ESA is proud to announce the second edition of the LPS Climate Detectives School Award. The award is open to teams of students, from 12 to 15 years old, participating in the ESA Climate Detectives school project. Climate Detectives The Climate Detectives project challenges school […]
How does homeschooling affect adolescents’ character, health and well-being?
A young student working from home. Credit: Jessica Lewis, Unsplash, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Compared to peers at public schools, adolescents who are homeschooled are more likely to report greater character strengths and fewer risky health behaviors later in life, but are less likely to attain a college degree, according to a […]
Students who self-identify as multilingual perform better in exams
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Young people who consider themselves ‘multilingual’ tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are actually fluent in another language, new research shows. The study, of more than 800 pupils in England, found a positive relationship between GCSE […]