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Destination Space Final Project Report March 30Th 2017 Destination Space Final Project Report March 30th 2017 By Dr Penny Fidler and James Summers Contents Map of the 20 Science Centres delivering Destination Space ...................................................... 4 Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... 5 An Overview of Destination Space ................................................................................................ 7 The Vision .................................................................................................................................. 7 The Mission ............................................................................................................................... 7 The Programme Goals............................................................................................................... 7 The Key Audiences .................................................................................................................... 7 Project delivery targets ................................................................................................................. 8 Level 1 ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Level 2 ....................................................................................................................................... 8 The Project Partners ..................................................................................................................... 9 The Development partners ....................................................................................................... 9 The 20 Selected Delivery Partners: ........................................................................................... 9 What Each Science Centre was given: ...................................................................................... 9 The Impact of Destination Space: 733,017 people engaged ...................................................... 11 Overall number of participants ............................................................................................... 11 Reach and Impact of each part of the programme................................................................. 11 Schools engagement ............................................................................................................... 12 Quotes from School Children, teachers and parents .................................................................. 13 Value for Money ......................................................................................................................... 15 Independent Academic Evaluation of Destination Space ........................................................... 16 Number of participants in the Destination Space evaluation ................................................. 16 Key Findings of the Academic Evaluation ................................................................................... 17 Impact on children with Families ............................................................................................ 17 Teachers’ views on impact ...................................................................................................... 17 Impact on the School Students ............................................................................................... 18 Gender Findings across the programme ..................................................................................... 20 Specific data on male vs female .............................................................................................. 20 Data Sampling ......................................................................................................................... 22 Gender balance: results from metric data .............................................................................. 22 Feedback from Science Centres .............................................................................................. 22 Overall gender reach in Summary .......................................................................................... 23 Impact on children from schools in disadvantaged areas .......................................................... 24 Qualitative evaluation ................................................................................................................. 24 1 Reach of the Website and Social Media ..................................................................................... 27 The Website: www.DestinationSpace.uk ............................................................................... 28 Social Media ............................................................................................................................ 29 How ASDC Created this National Programme ............................................................................ 30 Project Research and the Charette ......................................................................................... 30 Selecting the Partner Science and Discovery Centres ............................................................ 31 Developing the Schools and Families Activities ...................................................................... 31 Creating the Set of Equipment .................................................................................................... 32 The handbook ............................................................................................................................. 35 The Website ................................................................................................................................ 36 The Training Academies, at the National Space Centre .............................................................. 36 Training academy 1: June 17th and 18th 2015 ......................................................................... 37 Training academy 2: September 8th and 9th 2015 ................................................................... 37 2017 National Meeting and Visit to DLR and the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne (EAC) .................................................................................................................................................... 39 Reaching Wider Audiences and Other Opportunities ................................................................ 40 Farnborough International Air show 16th & 17th July 2016 ..................................................... 40 Bluedot festival 22nd -24th July 2016 ....................................................................................... 41 Principia Schools conference: Portsmouth 1st – 2nd November 2016 ..................................... 42 Principia Schools conference: York 5th – 6th November 2016 ................................................. 42 Project Lessons Learned ............................................................................................................. 43 Project Summary and Conclusions.............................................................................................. 43 Overviews from the 20 Delivery Science Centres ....................................................................... 45 Aberdeen Science Centre ........................................................................................................ 45 At-Bristol Science Centre ........................................................................................................ 46 Cambridge Science Centre ...................................................................................................... 47 International Centre for Life ................................................................................................... 48 Dundee Science Centre (DSC) ................................................................................................. 49 Dynamic Earth ......................................................................................................................... 50 Eden Project ............................................................................................................................ 51 Eureka! The Children’s Museum ............................................................................................. 52 Glasgow Science Centre (GSC) ................................................................................................ 53 Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre ................................................................................................ 54 National Space Centre ............................................................................................................ 55 Observatory Science Centre.................................................................................................... 56 Royal Observatory Greenwich (ROG) ...................................................................................... 57 2 Science Museum ..................................................................................................................... 58 Techniquest ............................................................................................................................. 59 Techniquest Glyndwr .............................................................................................................. 60 Thinktank ...............................................................................................................................
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