Universe Awareness took a trip to Friesland last week to help get Dutch teachers and their students excited about science and technology during the Ruimte voor Bèta (Space for Science) symposium hosted by Betapunt Noord. The event was held at the Lawei Theatre in Drachten, Friesland, where around 500 children and educators from all across the Netherlands attended, as well as special guest Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers attended to support a more tech-savvy future.
Teachers are the greatest multiplicative factor for reaching children. If a teacher begins work at the age of 25, by retirement they will reach an average of 2000 young minds. The event was organised with this in mind, offering educators a morning of lectures about on-going science outreach projects in the Netherlands and an information market, including exhibits by Universe Awareness, Wetsus, Proefjes, the Natuur Fryslan Museum and many more. For the children in attendance there was a Frysk FabLab and a NASA Space exhibition with a model rocket.
UNAWE took to the event with a wide selection of our educational resources designed to inspire children with our wonderful cosmos, such as Universe in a Box, Space Scoop, Earth Balls, UNAWE Kamishibai, numerous activity guides and much more, all of which is available open source on our website: www.unawe.org.
For more information about Betapunt Noord and the projects they are supporting, visit: http://www.betapuntnoord.nl/
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