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 a simple animation, and discussing their progress and discoveries in a clear and thoughtful manner.

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News: Gravitational Waves: Theory and Methods for Detection

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

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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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Blog: Bringing STEM Education to Refugees During a Pandemic

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

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