Perm hosts Space Championship 2024
From December 4 to 10, 2024, the A.D. Shvetsov Perm Aviation Technical School is hosting the finals of the International Aerospace Festival - Space Championship. More than 120 children and 35 mentors from 30 regions of our country are taking part in it.
Space Championship is a competition for schoolchildren interested in studying aerospace technologies. Together with leading specialists of the rocket and space industry and students of top universities, participants will unite in a real design bureau and develop a design solution to a topical space problem in five days.
Within the framework of the Championship the participants of design offices will have to work on one of 5 tracks:
- The track "General Designer". The participants of the track will have to solve managerial tasks. The goal is to form the image of a complex composite project of space theme, as well as to organize the work of several project teams.
- Track "Design Engineer". Development of spacecraft design within the given project theme.
- The track "Space Robotics". The theme of the track is the development of robotic means used in space. The participants of this track will solve problems on construction and programming of robotic systems.
- Track "Mission Control". The track is aimed at developing software tools to support the assigned space mission.
- Science in Space" track. The task of the track participants is to develop concepts of experiments to be conducted in the space environment within the set task.
The work on each track is accompanied by lectures and consultations of industry experts. A rich educational and cultural program awaits participants and mentors.
The final event of the Championship will be a poster defense, where participants will present their projects to experts, partners and guests.
The closing ceremony of the Championship and awarding of participants will be held on December 9 at 18:00.
Detailed information about the championship on the official website: http://spacechamp.ru/ and the VK group: https://vk.com/aerospaceproject.
Championship organizers: Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution "Federal Centre for Additional Education and Organization of Rest and Recreation for Children", Ministry of Education and Science of Perm Krai, state institution of additional education "Perm Krai Centre "Ant Farm".
The program partners are the flagships of the aerospace industry, leading public and private companies in the field of astronautics, astronomy and technical education: the State Corporation for Space Activities "Roscosmos", Scientific and Production Association named after S. A. Lavochkin. Lavochkin, educational center "Alabuga Polytech", engineering company "Lorette", innovation company "Voltbro", LLC "Education of the Future", Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, LLC "Satellite Innovative Space Systems", Experimental Design Bureau "Fifth Generation".