The Program
To the learners of Gauteng…
Be a part of TEWS-Space Race South Africa
2021 APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Let's Build The Future Together!
From the beginning the United States and South Africa have been part of The Space Age.
The U.S. NASA Apollo mission to land a human on the moon used data relay tracking stations in South Africa. And as the U.S. Space Shuttle and now the International Space Station became the image of human space exploration, South Africa founded SANSA, the South African National Space Agency and is one of the founding countries of and host to the Square Kilometer Array, which will be most sensitive and data intense radio telescope in the world.
Space exploration pushes us to imagine, design, develop and achieve much more than we might ever achieve or even think about if we didn’t look beyond the Earth—from monitoring the human body at a distance to assisting famers thru remotely sensing water and mineral resources from space.
Space exploration pushes us to imagine, design, develop and achieve much more than we might ever achieve or even think about if we didn’t look beyond the Earth—from monitoring the human body at a distance to assisting famers thru remotely sensing water and mineral resources from space.
Gauteng public schools learner participants in TEWS-Space Race:
TEWS-Space Race: Project South Africa will build STEM* skills and knowledge about the many facets of space industries, capabilities, and applications by engaging hands, minds, and hearts experiences resulting in much meaningful, long-lasting impact. *Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM)
Two hundred Grade 9 – 11 learners from Gauteng public schools will be chosen from applicants to take part in one of a series of day long Workshops between February and March 2021. The Workshops will be held at the Sci Bono Science Centre.
During the workshops, students will solve real world problems as they learn about and use capabilities for space exploration. Learners will get to explore space and design solutions to problems in teams with artists, engineers, biologists, authors, astronomers, geologists and even perhaps astronauts.
Once the workshops are completed 12 leaners will earn the opportunity to visit the U.S. Space Camp at Space Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama and tour Washington, DC or tour space related locations across South Africa in 2021 depending upon international travel and COVID-19 pandemic status.
Addressing any problem or need in today’s world requires skills in many different areas – from storytelling, social sciences, economics and art to computer sciences, physics, biology, construction and government. So TEWS- Space Race Project (South Africa) workshops are looking for students with a broad range of interest, skills and talents.
The Workshops are based on the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence’s (DJF) successful The Earth We Share International Science Camp™ (TEWS) methodology established by Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first woman of colour in the world to travel to space, former NASA astronaut, engineer, physician, entrepreneur, college professor and science literacy advocate. Since 1994, DJF has held TEWS science camps that bring middle and high school students from across the United States and around the world together to solve current global dilemmas.