Ultimately, the most important indicator of a student’s future academic success is her desire to learn, and we believe we can instill a life-changing thirst for knowledge in a fiscally efficient manner by helping students participate in the far reaches of humanity’s explorations.
Cutting edge exploration and the wildly exciting questions it engages should not be the exclusive provenance of the developed world, and this project will make Mars exploration a truly human-wide pursuit. More importantly, we believe the program will inspire children on a curiosity-driven quest for knowledge despite / because of the abbreviated classroom time. In this way, even a brief educational experience can light a spark of inspiration that will burn for a lifetime.
To sustain the momentum, we supply participating classrooms with the proprietary Ad Astra Academy curriculum and relevant math and science textbooks, offering eager learners appropriate resources. We will also share powerful web-based tools with local teachers, so they can continue discussions on the themes of scientific exploration with other students for years to come. In partnership with education professionals at USC’s Rossier School of Education, we will track students’ long-term progress to establish the program’s efficacy and consider its scalability to domestic and other international schools.
An article on our experience and findings following the 2015 and 2018 programs in Brazil was commissioned by the IAU-OAD, and will be published in the journal Communicating Astronomy with the Public.
Cutting edge exploration and the wildly exciting questions it engages should not be the exclusive provenance of the developed world, and this project will make Mars exploration a truly human-wide pursuit. More importantly, we believe the program will inspire children on a curiosity-driven quest for knowledge despite / because of the abbreviated classroom time. In this way, even a brief educational experience can light a spark of inspiration that will burn for a lifetime.
To sustain the momentum, we supply participating classrooms with the proprietary Ad Astra Academy curriculum and relevant math and science textbooks, offering eager learners appropriate resources. We will also share powerful web-based tools with local teachers, so they can continue discussions on the themes of scientific exploration with other students for years to come. In partnership with education professionals at USC’s Rossier School of Education, we will track students’ long-term progress to establish the program’s efficacy and consider its scalability to domestic and other international schools.
An article on our experience and findings following the 2015 and 2018 programs in Brazil was commissioned by the IAU-OAD, and will be published in the journal Communicating Astronomy with the Public.