KEEP UP WITH PHOENIX SPACE

Our Logbook shares news, updates, achievements, blogs, and other important information.

News: We continue to grow!

We continue to grow! We are in the process of bringing the Phoenix Space Program, our main STEM education offering, to a new center. We’ll soon be operating at the Nama’a Center in Kilis, Turkey, near the Syrian border. We are registering students now, and expect to begin classes in the next few weeks. This will be our fifth center

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News: STEM Spark program

We launched another new education program. Our STEM Spark program is a set of 3 online classes for girls aged 11-13 and will acquaint them with techniques that allow them to solve realistic problems involving science, maths, and computing. Students work in teams to solve problems, and they will be introduced to scientific thinking, designing experiments, creating electronic circuits, programming

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News: Two cohorts completed our program

We are excited to announce that two of the original cohorts of the Phoenix Space Program completed the program in January. The cohort from SPI in Istanbul began in February 2020, and the St. Paul Center, Lebanon, group began in July. While classes alternated between in-person and online due to COVID-related restrictions, the students showed incredible resilience and dedication in

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Blog: The Overview Effect – Space and Our Connected Humanity

By Alex Dutton, Phoenix Space Head of Education. For our first post, we’re going to start big, very big. Have you ever taken off in a plane, looked out of the window and seen all the people, cars, houses, streets shrink into specks and felt yourself temporarily away from the world? Imagine not just these objects, but entire mountains, cities,

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