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#1: A Taste of the SDCs
Word count & reading time: (655 words – 3 minutes) Welcome to the Space Design Competitions – unique, impactful, and exhilarating space STEAM-a-thon events that get you conceptually designing space habitats for up to 80 years in the future… This article will introduce you to the competitions and what we’re all about here at the
ITSDC 2021 Qualifiers to EUSDC & ISSDC
Congratulations and well done to all participants of the first National Space Design Competition in Europe, Italian SDC 2021! 62 dedicated participants across multiple regions of Italy, 3 competing companies, 9 invaluable volunteers. The challenge presented to Kepler Automation, Olympus Mons Trading Company, and Earhart Advanced Industries was to design an Aldrin Cycler between Earth
Holiday wishes
Season’s Greetings! Approaching year’s end, we at the SSEF naturally think of you—our supporters and untiring fans. Throughout 2021, you have provided our programme with multiple gifts: passion for science, devotion to learning, donation of service, funding and time. Thank you for helping to keep us in orbit! Dr. Randall Stewart Perry, Founder Space Science Engineering
EUSDC 2021 & ISSDC Qualifiers
Congratulations and well done to all participants of the first continent-wide European Space Design Competition, EUSDC 2021! 68 dedicated participants, 7 European Nations, 3 competing companies, 28 invaluable volunteers. The challenge presented to Kepler Automation, DaVinci Meccanica, and Earhart Advanced Industries was to design a preliminary research base to be constructed in Earth orbit before
EUSDC 2020 Qualifiers to ISSDC
EU students to the ISSDC There will be four student spaces on the EU team that will be headed to the International SDC at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center the end of July. The team will be self funded. Announcements will be made later in the spring
EUSDC 2019 Qualifiers to ISSDC
Winning members
How We Think and Learn
How We Think And Learn Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929 Catherine Twomey Fosnot Most people assume that learning results from teachers transmitting knowledge: clearly explaining concepts, procedures to be practiced, and facts to be memorized; then testing to assess retention
Why does the space competition work?
Randall Perry March 30,2018 I am often asked why the Space Design Competition (SDC) format works. Whilst my quick fire response when in the throes of organising an event is often, “It’s all the students’ own work, not ours”; this does belie the research and development that underpins the setting up
EUSDC 2018 Qualifiers to ISSDC
The following have been invited to join the EU team. This is not funded by the UKSDC, and individuals will be expected to find their own sources of funding. We will happily advise on potential sources of funding if requested. Dougeldyne (in alphabetical order) Georgia Aspinall – The Brooksbank School Corinne Barker – The Brooksbank
ISSDC 2017: The Party’s Over
Luke Tattersall, supervisor What a crazy 48 hours. The students from the UK and EU teams are now sleep-deprived, hungry and, let’s be honest, a little disappointed. After two days and the best part of a night preparing their presentations, it was judgement day. The teams lined up at the KSC and presented their versions