By Alex Dutton, Phoenix Space Head of Education. Around the world, the first half of 2020 contained weeks where the promises of the last decade of ed-tech, such as paperless schools, digital learning, automated homework, and remote classrooms, were thrust upon teachers and students. In this blog post, I’d like to share a different experience of a sudden move to

We will begin teaching a new cohort of the Phoenix Space Program, our main STEM education offering, at the Nama’a Center in Kilis, Turkey, in mid-June 2021. Registration for the program is underway, and we anticipate that approximately 20 students will be starting the 32-week program. This will be the second cohort of our program at the Nama’a Center and

LaunchPad Challenge is open to 15 to 19-year-old students around the world. The Phoenix Space LaunchPad Challenge lets students develop and present a creative, idea-based solution to a space science-themed problem. Students have the opportunity to apply their classroom learning and research to solving scientific challenges, leverage creativity, and develop presentation and teamwork skills while connecting to and competing against

In mid-April, we began offering the Phoenix Space Program, our main STEM education offering, at the Nama’a Center in Kilis, Turkey. Approximately 25 students are participating. The program is a 32-week educational program consisting of weekly in-person and online classes combined with camps and workshops to teach 13-to 17-year-old students useful skills in mathematics, electronics, physics, coding, robotics, and project

Our first Advanced Track Lecture Series installment took place in mid-February. The topic was “Gravitational Waves: Theory and Methods for Detection” and was presented by Dr. Deyan Mihaylov, a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute. A live question and answer session with Dr. Mihaylov followed the main presentation. Advanced Track lectures are appropriate for university students and attendees with