MX Face-To-Face Working Group Meeting Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency), Rome Wednesday and Thursday 27 & 28 May 2015

1 Mission X 2015 Working Group Face-to-Face Meeting Wednesday 27 May 2015

Time Topic 9:00 Coffee, Meet & Greet 9:15 Welcome by ASI 9:30 Overview of Meeting Objectives and Agenda 9:45 MX15 Astronaut Ambassador Objective: Present Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the ISS and as the MX15 Ambassador 10:00 MX 15 Challenge Summary & Closure Break Objective: Present MX15 experiences, total participants, exchange of views, lessons learned, and share ideas 11:00 MX15 Final Report and Assessment Tools Objective: Discuss important dates and assessment tools used for MX15; Is there an effective method to evaluate MX? Student Survey vs Teacher Survey what’s the progress? 11:30 Content Session Objective: Discuss new academic activities called Bugs in Space and Robotic Arm and new physical activity called Burpee 12:00 LUNCH SEMINAR 13:00 Content Session Continue Objective: Implement a small portion of the activities Bugs in Space, Robotic Arm and the Burpee with the MXWG 13:30 Mission X Website Objective: Discuss updated auto registration per MXWG recommendations and lessons learned

14:45 Mission X Website Objective: Present website metrics, language and inconsistencies of missions’ names etc.

15: 45 Recruitment and Expansion of Participating Nations and Teams Break Objective: Share BEST methods to spread the word about MX and ways to support and strategies to advertise MX to recruit more teams and countries 16:00 Present Certificates Objective: Present certificate to the MXWG and capture the moment 16:30 Adjourn until tomorrow 2 Mission X 2015 Face-to-Face Meeting

• ASI Welcomes MXWG

• Day 1 • Day 2 – Bathroom – Details of the Roma Event location – Lunch – Emergency Exits – Dinner Plans – Lunch – Dinner Plans

3 Meeting Expectations Wednesday 27 May • Review 2015 Challenge and discuss plans for this week Thursday 28 May • Plan for 2016 and beyond and discuss Roma school event

4 MX Astronaut Ambassador SAMANTHA CRISTOFORETTI

5 FUTURA SAMANTHA CRISTOFORETTI MISSION

6 Samantha is the seventh Italian astronaut in space. She is the first femal Italian astronaut in space and the first female European astronaut on board the ISS. Her Mission FUTURA is the eleventh mission of an Italian person in space. Among the hundreds of experiments which Samantha conducts on ISS, 10 are Italian:  five experiments study the effects of the space environment on different aspect of the human body;  two of them analyze the biological effects of microgravity on cells;  one aboard the ISS from 2011 studied bio-contamination by bacteria and fungi present on the Station.

7 Italian Experiments… - Blind and Imagined - move Short bLind plus shrINK (SLINK) - Bone/Muscle check - Drain Brain - Wearable monitoring - Orthostatic Tolerance

- Cell Shape and Expression (Cytospace) - Nanoparticles and Osteoporosis (NATO)

- POP 3D - ISSpresso - Viable ISS (since June 2011)

8 At work… Install rotors on Biolab Studying fruit flies

To study the return of cerebral venous flow (Brain Drain)

Remote control of the release of Dragon 9 Credit: ESA/NASA  One EPO script to support Mission X Programme in Italy  One EPO In-flight call for Mission X – Italian closing event 2015

EPO script Mission X 2015 Italian Edition Fitness and Nutrition topics addressed in one EPO video recording on ISS (Columbus). The purpose of EPO script is to give a motivational and inspiring message to children participating in the Mission X 2015 project related to “training like an astronaut”.

EPO In-flight call Mission X – Italian closing event 2015 20 minute EPO IFC in Italian with Samantha for Mission X Italian Closing Event at ASI to mark the end of a 9 week “Mission X: Train like an astronaut” programme. Italian children got a chance to pose questions related to nutrition and keeping fit in space. To see the IFC with Sam Click on ASITV.

10 The script introduced the fitness and nutrition field and the activity performed on ISS to be in good shape. The aim is to underline the importance of practicing scientific reasoning and teamwork in hands- on training missions. Samantha explained that it is necessary for an astronaut to be in good health and shape. Each astronaut trains around two hours every day on ISS with many other astronauts from different countries and follow a healthy diet to live and work without health trouble in microgravity aboard the ISS.

11 ESA and Mission X Highlights for 2015

12 Message from

13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5EVrz8MDGI&f eature=youtu.be

14 MISSION-X 2015 - OPPORTUNITY TO HOST AN EDUCATIONAL EVENT FOR CHILDREN INCLUDING A LIVE 20 MINUTE IN-FLIGHT CALL WITH AN ESA ASTRONAUT ON THE ISS

15 Mission X 2015 CHALLENGE SUMMARY AND CLOSURE

16 MX15

Czech USA Spain Norway Switzerland Germany Republic S. Korea Colombia

Indonesia France

Portugal Puerto Rico

Greece Finland

Russia Romania

Belgium Slovenia

Austria Chile

UK Italy Denmark Netherland Sweden Canada Australia Japan

17 Total Children Enrollment 38,546

28 Countries Participated 1 Observing Country 16 Languages

805 Teams

9 Space Agencies 4 Space Offices 15 Organizations/Institutions 18 Mission X 2015 COUNTRY SLIDES

19 Mission X 2015 AUSTRALIA

20 Australia Country Report 2015

213 children across two sites in Victoria took part in MX15

A number of factors impacted the schools for 2015: • Reduced support from the Victorian Space Science Education Centre • Handover of Australia coordinator role • Schools running MX as a alternate year program

For Mission X 2016 a alternate approach – targeting articles in teacher professional association publications

21 Mission X 2015 AUSTRIA

22 Some figures: • Number of teams: 19 (20 in 2014, 16 in 2013) • Participating children: 401 (384 in 2014, 307 in 2013) • Involved regions and/or cities: 9 (8 in 2014, 7 in 2013,)

Main partners: • Austrian Planetaria • Museum of Natural History (NHM) • Ars Electronica Center Linz (AEC) • Austrian Space Agency (FFG) • RUAG Space

New in 2015: • Visits to all schools by project team • IFC to ISS on 24 March at NHM • Final event on 14 April at AEC Linz

Budget (including IFC): • approx. 25.500 Euro (16.500 in 2014) 23 ISS In-Flight-Call with Samantha Cristoforetti on 24 March 2015 at Museum of Natural History in Vienna 24 Mission X 2015 BELGIUM

25 26 27 4 Schools participated in

Mission X : Train like an Astronaut 2015

28 29 30 31 32 33 … at the Euro Space Center 34 35 36 37 - ESA astronaut

-Brigadier General in the French Air Force

-French engineer

38 39 - Shared his experience with the students and answered the questions

40 Thank you Mission X

41 MISSION X Team Belgium 2015

MX15 students at St. Mary of Seraing are ready to begin the trials!

Apprentices astronauts training. The arms, legs, abdominals, and minds - no part of the body will have been spared! 42 Mission X 2015 CANADA

43 44 45 TEAMS IN CANADA

TEAM CANADA- COMPLETED TASKS Activities Metrics ( activity X 10 seconds X frequency) Mission Control Lower muscle control Hydration Station Mind control Planet You Go, Gravity You Find Hands and body coordination Crew Strength Training Lower and upper muscle strength

Jump to the Moon Fatigue X 10 minutes 46 KEY MOTIVATIONAL FACTS

• The Physical activities were designed for the age group • Every physical activity was named with NASA terminology (mission control) • All activities were made competitive among students and other countries • Updates from other teams were published on MX site • Watching Astronaut Charlie getting close to the Moon OUR GOAL IN 2015-2016

Recruit 1000 – plus students across Canada in one single place to share MX experiences

Thank you MX 2015

47 Mission X 2015 COLOMBIA

48 FUNDACION CIUDAD HORIZONTE 2050

MISSION X – COLOMBIA – 2015

MX is implemented by Foundation CH2050 in collaboration with the Colombian Space Commission

The objective of the Foundation is to reach the population with less opportunities. The project therefore addresses, with preference, public schools, rural areas, distant and of difficult access It is also important to influence the Students, Teachers and Parents through all those learnings that can be associated to the Training and Activities conducted by the Astronauts. In addition to the primary elements of Mission X, Nutrition and Physical Fitness, CH2050 integrates Inter-Relational Skills, as those exercised by the astronauts during their space missions. This approach provides means to influence the participating population in what refers to ethic, civic and social skills, as desired for a new generation. Participating teams currently work on those Social and Ethical Competencies through the implementation of the mentioned skills. A competition is on going on the implementation of these activities.

For this year, 2015, the participation of schools has been influenced by the introduction of modifications in the Education System. This new concept introduces a whole morning + afternoon study journey and the creation of additional mandatory and optional programs. This resulted in a redistribution of the school efforts that can be assigned to complementary activities, as is the case of Mission X.

This dynamics requires a new accommodation process with respect to their participation in Mission X hence our current development of the activities. J. ABRIL CASTRO “Hacemos Progresivamente de Nuestro Sueño una Realidad” R. LORZA-PITT GG CH2050 FP CH2050 MX International Closing Event – Transine Belgium 19 to 22 June 2014 Issue 01 FUNDACION HORIZONTE 2050

Plan Mission X – Colombia 2015 Training Activities 2015 Opening of Team Registration on line 17-Nov-14 Initiation of Activities – Teachers 19-Jan-15 In order to provide new opportunities to participating Initiation of Classes – Students 26-Jan to 02 Feb- teachers a rotation of trainers was initiated. 15 A Team of 4 Trainers led the MX-2015 Training Campaign at Closure of Teams Registration 28-Feb-15 Padre Manyanet School in Bogotá on the 7 March 2015, with Training of Team Leaders in Bogota 07-Mar-15 the support of a logistics team. Kick Off Mission X - Colombia – 2015 09-Mar-15 Special training accent was placed on the Inter-Relational Limit for Contribution to the Int MX 20-Mar-15 Skills of the Astronauts. Closure Mission X – 2015 Colombia 17-Abr-15 In addition the Training was also accessible through Questionary to Schools 17-Abr-15 internet to 4 teams in distant locations. Questionary Return 30-Abr-15 Closure Event TBD SPECIAL VISIBILITY OF MX

• The Director of NASA Charles Bolden visited Colombia in February and shared his experiences with our students.tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DSqClYL3MI • Mission X in Colombia was presented to Mr. Bolden by the Colombian Space Commission, with good appreciation

KEY NOTES

• Most team registrations happened in February 2015 • Management and identification of spurious registrations is an issue • Participation: 1409 students, 52 Teams, 9 cities and 6 regions • Three national competitions are conducted in order to motivate the participation. J. ABRIL CASTRO “Hacemos Progresivamente de Nuestro Sueño una Realidad” R. LORZA-PITT GG CH2050 FP CH2050 MX International Closing Event – Transine Belgium 19 to 22 June 2014 Issue 01 Mission X 2015 CZECH REPUBLIC

51 52 Mission X 2015 DENMARK

53 Mission X Denmark 2015

Number Schools 26 Teams 31 Students 867 Teachers 28 Mission X Denmark 2015

• Welcoming package sent out to all schools January 2015. • Invited to talk about Mission X at national conference for teachers in Denmark. • Solar Eclipse on march 20th, event with children from MX15 (120 participants, live coverage on national television). • Tina gave live interview on Samanta Cristoforetti’s launch at TV2 NEWS, and talked about Mission X. Mission X 2015 FRANCE

56 57 Mission X 2015 GERMANY

58 MISSION X Trainieren wie ein Astronaut! Team Germany 2015 • 496 children • 21 teams • 14 cities • 15 teachers • 1 international school: El Paso Texas, USA

Challenge: How to more effectively grow participation across Germany and improve blogging? 59 Mission X 2015 GREECE

60 Who participate in MX 2015 4 Schools (4MX Teams), 417 students, 14 Teachers 3 Municipalities (3 MX Cities Involved) 61 •The first reference about Mission X in Greece was made in the inserted magazine “OI EREYNITES” (“The Explorers”) of the Greek nationwide newspaper “KATHIMERINI”, on Saturday 18th October 2014. A tribute was made to the “Space Celebrations” conducted by the 25th Public Primary School of Acharnes given the opportunity of the “World Space Week” celebrations.

•A report was submitted to the Greek Ministry of Education and I am now in anticipation/expectation of a face to face interview for the promotion of MX in Greece.

•The Primary School Directors of a great number of Greek Schools were informed about the project in a formal Meeting, as well as the Major of the City of Acharnes, who was also requested to participate as a partner.

•The closing event is scheduled some time in May with a number of 3 Schools conducting it in collaboration. Certificates and small flags will be given to the students participating in the event.

I would like to publicly thank the UK Space Agency, Hannah Garrett and Heather MacRae, who supported us with T-shirts and the “Astronaut training guide”. In addition, many thanks to Nubia for her assistance and support right from the beginning.

Athina Primikiri, Greek Country Lead 62 Mission X 2015 ITALY

63 Mission X Italy 2015 The main partner in 2015 is the Agricultural 1520 students 151 teachers Research Council

21 cities 72 teams ASI realized a new backpack and a diary for students Number of Italian students participing to MX 1600 1520 1400 1313 1200

1000 1036

800 Number of 600 Italian 488 students In January ASI sent to schools 400 participing to educational material to use in 200 MX classrooms during the project, such as exercise books with 0 the MX logo on the cover. edition edition edition edition 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 64 ASI organized two training days for teachers, which took place in January 2015. ASI organized, in collaboration with CRA, the final event which was held in Rome at ASI, April 28th, 2015. The final event involved more than 260 Italian students from primary to lower secondary schools, with more than 40 coordinating teachers. ASI gave to all students and teachers the opportunity to spend a day with ASI highly qualified staff and to take part in a 20 minute Inflight call with the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on ISS.

65 Mission X 2015 JAPAN

66 Uedo elementary school

Minami elementary school JAXA Tsukuba Space Center

SPORT CLUB SIXTH Yatabe elementary school Meikei high school TOGO town Sakuragawa junior high school Narimasu elementary school

Narimasugaoka elementary school Shimura elementary school

Nagaya elementary school About 1,500 students from 11 schools/organizations worked on MissionX challenge this year!

67 © NASA/JAXA 68 Mission X 2015 THE NETHERLANDS

69 MISSION X TRAIN ALS EEN ASTRONAUT! The Netherlands 2015

• 375 children (groups 4-8: 7-11 years old) • 15 teams • 11 schools • 10 cities • 20 teachers • 1 international school: participating since pilot project! • 2 teams from school for children with special needs 70 MISSION X TRAIN ALS EEN ASTRONAUT! The Netherlands 2015 • January: training MX teachers • 6 February: opening at NEMO Science Center in Amsterdam • 100 children from 3 schools • Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers and journalist Sander Koenen: Techniekpact Collegetour • Mail chimp newsletter • Mission X NL Facebook page • Dutch prize winners: gym equipment or scientific experiments/games from NEMO Science Center • Teachers’ questionnaire 71 Mission X 2015 NORWAY

72 In NORWAY 2015

Norway participated for the third time in Mission X, and NAROM/Nordic ESERO has been the national point of contact. • 222 young Norwegian students where registered • 4 schools where registered, but only 2 schools did participate • 8 teams where registered, but only 3 teams did register points at www.trainlikeanastronaut.org • The 3 teams gathered a total of 2830 points.

Schools were invited to take part via newsletter, and information was spread through our networks (between science centers, teacher networks) and via Nordic ESERO www.esero.no/index.php?fid=402&oid=2332. We also posted information at our websites www.narom.no and www.sarepta.org. 73 In NORWAY 2015

• Nordic ESERO prepared relevant material to each school and secured ISS Education Kit, Primary, to participating schools. The educational materials were very valuable for the teachers.

• The teams appreciated to receive water-bottles and reflex bracelet with Mission-X logo, and teachers have expressed that those were important for identification and teambuilding. In addition, the participating teams receive stickers, flags and banners.

74 Mission X 2015 PORTUGAL

75 Mission X – Train Like an Astronaut 2015 - Portugal Registrations: 20 Schools, 749 students, 15 Cities (approximately + 50% compared to last year)

Schools all over the 18 Teachers country 40 Actively using the MX blog 8 Cities 15 Registred 9 Schools 20

419 Students 749

Main Actions - Promotion of Mission X 2015 among teachers – October 2014

- Creation of the Website – Nov 2014

- Revision of educational materials and support guides

-Teachers support (helpdesk) and regular updates by e-mail Partner Faculty of Human Kinetics – Lisbon University - Closing Event (14 May)

76 Portugal Closing Event Lisbon - Pavilion of Knowledge - Ciência Viva . 200 students and 23 teachers . Sports Activities . Live lectures on the ISS and Space Food

77 Mission X 2015 SOUTH KOREA

78 Mission X: 1st Year of Team ROK

• Participants: 212+ – 212 Kindergarteners ( 106 Boys, 97 Girls) of 8 Teams – 11 Adults – 3 Locations (Osan / Young-In / Seoul)

• Period : 6 weeks – October ~ December, 2014

79 Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut

Week Subject Content objective Muscle strength, 1 Do a space walk! Bear crawl, crab walk coordination Bone strength, Jump training with a 2 Jump for the moon cardiovascular, rope muscular endurance

Running a specific Agility, coordination, 3 Agility astro-course course speed

Categorizing different Understanding specific 4 Energy of an astronaut food items nutritional needs

Reduced gravity, Discovering fat Formulating balanced 5 Low-fat contents meal Building an astronaut Commander crunch Abdominal and back 6 “core” pilot plank muscle strength 80 Mission X 2015 @ S. Korea

Crab walk Jump training w/ a rope

Bear crawl

Discovering fat contents Running a specific course 81 Mission X 2015 SWEDEN

82 MISSION X Team SWEDEN 2015

• 549 Children • 18 Teams • 36 Adults • 13 Sites • 12 Cities

What fun it is, the kids are so engaged! We did the speed of light and they counted out their mean values and looked at how good they were to catch the ruler. They were squeezing stress balls and they jumped and got high pulse and tried to catch the ruler! A lot of laughter in the classroom when they missed completely and cheers when they caught it faster and faster. 83 Mission X 2015 UK

84 85 86 87 Mission X 2015 USA

88 Mission X: Team USA 2015

Statistics: New This Year: 14 States + Puerto Rico “Application” process 22 sites (9 returning, 13 new) SHAPE America partnership (Society for Health and Physical Education) ~4,700 students/participants

Lessons Learned: Settings: Site management- Mainly in-school PE or science class ◦ How to keep personal ties, while still Some after-school growing in numbers ◦ Keeping “tabs” on leader registration Adults with unique needs

89 Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut

TEAM USA 2011 – 2015 2011 2015

90 Mission X 2015 FINAL REPORT AND ASSESSMENT TOOL

91 2015 Final

• Important Dates – 2 Nov: Draft sent to MXWG for review/comments – 23 Nov: MXWG comments due – 18 Dec: Final report released

92 Assessment

How best to evaluate Mission X? 1. Student surveys (pre & post) 3. Student questionnaire – Data to collect? – Questions to ask? • Age, weight, height • Enjoyment of MX • Eating/exercise habits • Any lifestyle changes because of MX • Interest in space/STEM • Most interesting thing learned • Unit questions based on MX • Career change activities 4. Teacher questionnaire 2. Teacher surveys (pre & post) – Questions to ask? – Data to collect? • Likes/dislikes about MX • Frequency of MX activities • Areas of improvement • Setting (in-school PE, after-school, 5. Blogs, Others etc) • Number of teams, total kids • Gender composition of teams 93 Mission X 2015 CONTENT SESSION

94 New Content

Started as 21st Century It got a new It got new New look is

Space Space 90% = complete Bugs in Bugsin Explorer activity... purpose… and a parts… different, but still

new engine similar to original

0% 0%

6

Arm = = Arm A Robotic Robotic A complete Started as NSO It got the Human And a couple of Will be ready to activity for robotic Training component... small alterations... ride for MX16... arms...

= = Framework only,

but on schedule Just starting Just Burpee 95 Status

Bugs in Space = 90% complete 0 100

A Robotic Arm = 60% complete 0 100

Burpee = Just starting 0 100

96 Mission X 2015 LUNCH SEMINAR

97 Jungwon Min, PhD, MS Research scientist Systems-oriented Global Childhood Obesity Intervention Program Dept. of Epidemiology and Environmental Health School of Public Health and Health Professions University at Buffalo, State University of New York Former Associate Research Fellow, Korean Institute of Child Care and Education [email protected]

98 Study Design

 Children aged 5 (n=212) and their parents recruited from 3 kindergartens.  They participated the 6-week intervention program in fall 2014.  To identify the barriers to physical activity(PA) and healthy diet and to overcome them by providing an adequate program to children, investigators assessed PA and diet changes after participation in the MX program by questionnaires.

99 Methods  Godin Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire  Godin G, Shephard RJ. (1997)  Psychological Need Satisfaction in Exercise scale  Wilson PM, Rogers WT, Rodgers WM et al. (2006), Kim SK (2007)  Food Intakes  24hr dietary recall  Dietary Quality & Habits  The Korean Nutrition Society (2012). Assessment of Diet and Nutrition Quotient (NQ)  Nutrition Knowledge  Yang et al. (1995). Assessment of Nutrition Achievement Test (NAT)  Post positive change % in group  The percentage of children who had positive changes in specific

items. 100 Improvement of PA: Pre- vs. post

 Weekly Leisure-Time Activity Score  (9 × average freq. (AF) of strenuous exercise/ week) + (5 × AF of moderate exercise/ week) + (3 × AF of mild exercise/ week)

Pre score Post positive change % in group

52.3 55.0 50.2 49.4 47.2 45.5 49.2 27.8

Total At risk of Normal BMI At risk of underweight overweight

101 Improvement of Psychological Need Satisfaction in Exercise scale: Pre- vs. post  Three subgroup scales: Competence, Autonomy & Relatedness

Pre average score Post positive change % in group

89.9 88.7 89.9 91.3 60.8 60.6 64.3 51.9

Total At risk of Normal BMI At risk of underweight overweight

102 Improvement of Food Intakes: Pre- vs. post  Two days 24 Hour Dietary Recall

Total energy intake (kcal) Pre Post

1612.9 1602.6 1627.8 1615.7 1539.5 1545.1 1570.6 1456.1

Total At risk of normal BMI At risk of underweight overweight

103 Improvement of Dietary quality & habits: Pre- vs. post  Assessment of Diet and Nutrition Quotient (NQ): Balance, Diversity, Moderation, Regularity, Practice

Total NQ score Pre Post

67.9 68.3 69.1 66.4 65.2 66.5 62.7 63.4

Total* At risk of Normal BMI At risk of underweight overweight* *p<0.05 104 Improvement of Nutrition Knowledge: Pre- vs. post

 Assessment of Nutrition Achievement test (NAT): Balanced meal & Healthy snack

Total NAT score Pre Post

86.7 73.6 80.0 70.7 75.5 75.1 80.9 78.4

Total* At risk of Normal BMI* At risk of underweight overweight* *p<0.05 105 Acknowledgements  Co Investigators:  Hyunjung Lim, PhD  Gilsook Kim, PhD  Shinyoung Song, MS  Youfa Wang, PhD, MD at Univ. at Buffalo, The State Univ. of New York  Funded by Korea Institute of Child Care and Education

106 Mission X 2015 CONTENT SESSION

107 Bugs in Space - estimated completion in English… Early Challenge MX16

Overview: 2 parts: 1) Create a Microbial Box to investigate and learn about microbes 2) Swab hard surfaces in school and cultivate the cultures to compare microbes at school with the ISS

Bugs in Space remaining tasks: • Proof edit the document • Finalize the videos • Control Board: July 2015 • Graphics and final format: August 2015 • Translation begins: September 2015 108 A Robotic Arm: Estimated completion… MX16

Overview: Future Activity overview: 2 parts based on the NSO A Robotic Arm activity: 1) Use robotic arm, potentially from A Robotic Arm, to 1) Analyze human arms to compare with robotic arms complete tasks 2) Work in teams to create a robotic arm to accomplish simple 2) Use communication tools similar to how astronauts and tasks space agencies communicate to safely use robotic arms on ISS 3) Perform tasks and use teamwork while in difficult situations such as limited sight or communication delays

A Robotic Arm remaining tasks: • Finalize the text and student procedures • Finalize the videos • Control Board: Autumn 2015 • Graphics and final format: Autumn 2015 • Translation begins: late Autumn 2015

109 Burpee: estimated completion… winter 2016

More coming soon…110 Mission X 2015 MISSION X WEBSITE AUTO REGISTRATION

111 • Lessons Learned – The View Country Users Tab was not used to its full potential – Teachers had trouble receiving the password – Number of teams on the View Country Users List did not match the number of teams on the country metric list – Teams updating total number of students didn’t work out – Received a HUGE number of fake registrations – Difficult to keep-up with new registrations 112 Mission X 2015 MX WEBSITE METRICS

113 Pageviews What country used the MX website the 120,343 most? More hits? Avg. United Kingdom 21.07% Session Duration 00:04:40 Number of total comments received on the blogs: 971 comments Pages / Session How many times was the Contact Form used? 3.87 167

Most Registered Language: English 566 Least Registered Language: Russian and Czech 1

Feb. 19

114 Blog metrics MX15 compared with MX14: - Similar number of posts MX14 → MX15 - MX15 less in March, but more in April

Blog images = 4400 Blog posts = 1803

115 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY USED THE MOST Crew Strength Training 168 Teams 27% of total teams

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY USED THE LEAST Explore and Discover 59 Teams 9% of total teams

ACADEMIC ACTIVITY USED THE MOST Energy of an Astronaut 109 Teams 17% of total teams

ACADEMIC ACTIVITY USED THE LEAST Taste in Space 42 Teams 116 6.7% of total teams 4 UK Teams 5 Austrian Teams Temple Allstars Galaxy Cats Green Galaxy 5 JKS Go Galaxy Gelstonia Galaxy Dragons Barnham p Galaxy Stars GTVS13 Shooting Stars

3 Colombian Teams 4 ItalianTeams Phoenix secondaE Phoenix 2 VENERE 2019 2F Phoenix 3 117 gli avventurieri dello spazio 2 Netherland Teams KMS Bussum 1 Czech Republic Team Koffianen II CzechTeam MX

1 NorwayTeam 1 JapanTeam Høre Skule 谷田部小５学年118 119 Klingon Language launcher

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bIQ batlh water

120 Mission X 2015 RECRUITMENT AND EXPANSION OF PARTICIPATING NATIONS AND TEAMS

121 MX15: Expansion of

Team How does your country “advertise” for MX, or how do you gain new teams? – Process for choosing new teams? Country – Growth challenges to overcome: • Best practices to • Grow too much, too quickly communicate with your • How to effectively manage teams large numbers of teams • How to ensure new team – Monthly newsletters will be an active participant – Monthly teleconferences • How to track numbers and – Site visits metrics – Emails 122 Mission X 2015 PRESENT CERTIFICATES

123 Mission X 2015 Working Group Face-to-Face Meeting Time ThursdayTopic 28 May 2015 9:00 Coffee 9:15 Overview of Meeting Objectives and Agenda 9:30 MX Roma School Special Event Overview Objective: Provide details of the Roma School Event and task assignments. 10:00 MX16 Astronaut Ambassador Objective: Discuss plans to involve astronauts during the MX16 challenge. Timothy Peake ESA Astronaut from UK , Principia resources and related activities for Tim Peake’s Mission. Andreas Mogensen ESA Astronaut from Denmark. 10:30 MX16 Country Growth and Building Partnerships Break Objective: Brainstorm concepts and ideas to help with growth within countries and ways to communicate with teams. Share best methods to build partnerships to assist with growth and cost increase 11:15 MX16 Awards and Goodies Objective: Discuss flags, banners, certificates, videos (Ask the Space Experts) and goodies. 11:45 MX16 Special Interest Groups Objective: Discuss ways to create special interest groups within the MXWG. Some areas that need SIG are translations, awards and goodies, recruitment, etc. look for additional tools such ex. BaseCamp.

12:15 LUNCH 13:15 Mission X 2016 Forward Look Objective: Discuss Mission X 2016 F2F meeting in Austria. Who will host MX17 F2F Meeting? Astronaut Ambassador for MX17? MX Important Dates for both challenges. Discuss attendance of telecoms. 14:15 MX 2016 Website Updates Break Objective: Discuss updates on the MX websites such as new tabs, new country clock, managing country registration, tag the different satellites that Charlie passes and tag the fit kids and translations 15:15 MX 2016 ESA Role in MX Objective : ESA explains their role in Mission X and in which areas the ESA member states can request support from ESA during the project. les in MX. ERAMUS Project and MX 16:00 MX 2016 Survey Objective: Discuss partnership with UB. UB will analyze USA Survey Data and collaborate on writing an abstract/research. Discuss international survey collaboration. 124 16:30 Adjourn Mission X 2015 ROMA SCHOOL

125 ASI is organizing an Educational event on May 29th, 2015, which will close the MX15 edition and the ICE 2015.

Location: Public school "Elsa Morante - Middle school Carlo Cattaneo". The school is located in the neighborhood of Testaccio, in a beautiful archeological, historical and artistic context. A very special day:  Educational activities with NASA and ESA  An artistic and a food itinerary organized by Roman students  Connection with Paolo Nespoli (TBD)  Participation of local institutions

The event will involve more than 250 Roman students from primary to lower secondary schools. The students will have the unique opportunity to spend a day with highly qualified experts from various International Space Agencies

126 MX 16 Astronaut Ambassadors TIM PEAKE AND ANDREAS MOGENSEN

127 MX16 Astronaut Ambassadors

128 MX16 Astronaut Ambassadors

• Welcome video completed at EAC Cologne – will be ready for 2016! • Paxi has taken a role in helping get the message across with Tim Educational programme: • Rocket science project - rocket seeds to the ISS, where they will stay for several months. Flown seeds sent to schools. Students plant flown seeds with regular rocket seeds and compare results. • CVD: upload some hardware which will be used to record videos to support classroom teaching. Example of a demo: Lexan box with aluminum ball inside. One ball coloured so that it is visible. The Lexan box will be shaken to demonstrate the theory of gases. • Astro Pi project: Raspberry Pi computers equipped with various sensors uploaded to station and coded by students. First stage only UK students, then the plan is to use them for European-wide educational activities.

129 MX16 Astronaut Ambassadors

• ESA Astronaut from Denmark

• Short mission of 10 days (around September 2015)

• Off MX season but will do some recordings of questions post flight.

• Watch out for his video!

130 Mission X 2016 COUNTRY GROWTH & BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS

131 Building partnerships How to build partnerships? • Develop an idea and strategy: • What do you want? What makes sense? What can you afford? • Make a good plan! • Use or set up an active b2b network • Be inspired, be active, be authentic, be realistic, be open-minded • Use existing networks and personal contacts • Attend workshops and conferences on related topics • Work on existing partnerships and keep them alive

Some experience from Austria (current and past partners) • FFG – existing partner, Austrian Space Agency, funding agency • Austrian Planetaria – existing network, astronomy and space topics • Museum of Technology Vienna – Final event and ESA exhibition partner • Museum of Natural History Vienna – IFC partner 2015 and planetarium • Ars Electronica Center Linz – Final event partner 2015 and ESA exhibition 2016 • RUAG Space GmbH – Sponsor since 2011 • OMV – Sponsor 2014 • City of Vienna – F2F meeting partner 2016 • ORF Austrian Broadcasting corporation – Media partner since 2013 132 Partnerships

Heather MacRae

Laurie J. Abadie

133 Mission X 2016 AWARDS AND GOODIES

134 MX 16:

MX Website Teacher & Student Certificates MX small flags In-flight Calls MX banners MXWG Certificates Astronaut Ambassadors Shipping of flags & banners NASA MX F2F Meeting ESA Astronaut Videos Edit and produce MX Opening Video Other Items Edit and produce MX Summary Video Create script and record MX Opening video

Ask the Space Expert Videos Create script and MX Closing video

135 MX 16:

MX flags and banners Teacher & Student Certificates Are they used? Are they useful? Pros and cons? Pros and cons? Do we want to continue to Do we want to continue to produce? produce? How can we make better? How can we make better?

In-Flight Call Ask the Space Expert Videos Other Items Did you or your teachers use the Are they useful? videos? Pros and cons? How can we increase views? Do we want to continue Do we want to continue to produce? to produce? If so, how can we decrease the cost? How can we make better? Other ideas for inspirational videos?

136 MX 16:

MX Website Was it used? Astronaut Videos Pros and cons? Were the videos used? How can we get more Shipping Pros and cons? views? of flags & Do we want to continue to banners produce? MX F2F MeetingHow can we increase views? How can we decrease cost? Other ItemsIdeas for other inspirational MXWG Certificates videos? Is it useful? Pros and cons? How can we make them better?

137 Mission X 2016 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIG)

138 MX 16:

• Constrained by Space Agency policy

• Constrained by Space Agency talents/resources

• Looking for a few good people to start a SIG

These are some areas we need SIGs: • Translation • Video production • Partnerships

TOOLS to manage collaboration • Google Documents • Others? 139 Mission X 2016 FORWARD LOOK

140 Mission X 2016:

MX16 F2F Meeting in Austria Peter Habison

141 Mission X 2017:

Who would like to host MX17 F2F Meeting?

142 MX17: May 2015 A call for proposals by NASA/ESA to MX WG

June/July 2015 Letter of Invite written by NASA/ESA to interested countries

August 2015 Proposal written by interested countries and submitted to NASA/ESA September 2015 October 2015 November 2015 Letter of NASA/ESA selects Commitment Announcement a host and issues a written by host to by NASA/ESA to Letter of Offer MX WG NASA/ESA 143 Revised 16 April 2015 Mission X 2017:

Thomas Pesquet- ESA Astronaut from France

Kate Rubins- NASA Astronaut from USA 144 MX16:

JUNE 2015 June MX Website Closed and 3rd Refresh 05 June Logos are due 11 June MXWG Monthly Telecom

JULY 2015 06 July MX16 Registration Opens 09 July MXWG Monthly Telecom (tentative)

145 MX16:

AUGUST 2015 NOVEMBER 2015 10 Aug. Leader Training Opens and 12 Nov. MXWG Monthly Important Dates Telecom 13 Aug. MXWG Monthly Telecom 20 Nov. MX15 Final Report 508 (tentative) Compliance

SEPTEMBER 2015 DECEMBER 2015 10 Sept. MXWG Monthly Telecom 10 Dec. MXWG Monthly 21 Sept. MX15 Final Report Draft Telecom for review 10 Dec. WATE MX16 Point Input closes (midnight GMT) OCTOBER 2015 11 Dec. WATE MX16 Challenge 05 Oct. Walk Around the Earth “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” (WATE) MX16 Challenge OPENS 11 Dec. MX16 Registration 08 Oct. MXWG Monthly Telecom Closes 12 Oct. MX15 Final Report 18 Dec. MX15 Final Report comments due Published 26 Oct. MX15 Final Report incorporate final comments 146 MX16:

JANUARY 2016 MARCH 2016 14 Jan MXWG Monthly 10 March MXWG Monthly Telecom Telecom 18 Jan MX16 Challenge begins and website opens

APRIL 2016 FEBRUARY 2016 14 April MXWG Monthly Telecom 08 Feb MX16 Participant 28 April Point Input closes Metrics due (midnight GMT) 11 Feb MXWG Monthly 29 April MX16 Challenge Telecom “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” Let’s Celebrate!!

147 How to Improve Attendance at the Monthly Teleconferences?

Total # of Attendance per Month Aug. 2014 – April 2015

14 13 12 12 12 11 11 11

10 Total # of Countries Present Countries of # Total

AUG-14 SEP-14 OCT-14 NOV-14 DEC-14 JAN-15 FEB-15 MAR-15 APR-15 Monthly Telecoms

• MX15 changed meeting day from Fridays to Thursdays

• Get a replacement in case you can’t make the meeting

148 Mission X 2016 WEBSITE UPDATES

149 Mission X 2016:

150 Mission X 2016:

 MXWG provides an email address for perspective teams (visitors) to contact them

 If the visitor’s country flag is not on the About Page, then a link will lead visitors to the Contact Page.

151 Mission X 2016:

Reduce amount of fake registration

Give the WG more control of participants

Code: MXEARLY2015 Begins: 07/06/2015 Expires: 08/31/2015

Register number of users on the website = register number of users on the metric chart

152 Mission X 2016:

153 Mission X 2016:

Provides a list of accounts pending before approval

Check and balance system

Only MXWG has access to this tab

Allows WG to check status on teams

Allows WG to contact pending user

Allows WG to delete account 154 Mission X 2016:

Team Leads Country Lead sends Team Leads Registration receive out Registration complete goes to Pending Registration Code to Team Leads Registration Form Users List Code

Country Lead Team Leads receive NASA approves accepts or deletes Password accounts accepted accounts pending Authorization by country leads

Team Leads create Approved Accounts Password found in the View Country’s Users List

155 Mission X 2016:

Only WG has access

Paste URL link

Copy/Paste error

Correct text

This will appear automatically

Form will be submitted to MX web master 156 Mission X 2016

Add the name of each satellite Coming Soon…. Archive blog images from 2011-2013 • Flicker • NASA archive • Other ideas?

157 Mission X 2016 EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY

158 Mission X and

The European Space Education Resource Office project is ESA's main way of supporting the primary and secondary education community in Europe.

http://www.esa.int/Education/Teachers_Corner/Eur opean_Space_Education_Resource_Office

Belgium, Ireland, The Netherlands, Nordic ESERO, Poland, Portugal, Romania, United Kingdom

More to come! Great way to get Mission X outreach and promotion.

159 Mission X and

A European Union programme for education, training, youth and sport and the link is http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus- plus/index_en.htm

It is known to all European Union Member Countries. It's a good opportunity to take advantage of it for MX. It is also a good idea the other Country Leaders from EU to think about it and then to discuss in Rome…….

160 Mission X 2016 SURVEY

161 The Future of

• New Space Act Agreement – NASA and the Research Foundation at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) – Signed February 2015 – World-renowned leaders in childhood obesity research – Will help evaluate, assess, and grow MX – Will perform a cost-benefit analysis of MX – New family-fitness program using MX (next chart)

162 Family-Fitness

Objective: Help families get involved in their children’s health and fitness. • Will adapt MX student handouts for home-use • Web-based program – Parent creates account for family – 6-month program – Assess BMI, healthy behaviors, family interactions, etc. (baseline, 3 months, 6 months) – Questionnaire

163 Ciao!!

164 Mission X 2015 and 2016 BACK-UP SLIDES

165 MX15 Astronaut Ambassador

• Samantha Cristoforetti – Holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering with specializations in aerospace propulsion and lightweight structures – A Captain in the Italian Air Force – ESA astronaut since May 2009 • Contributions to Mission X 2015 – Pre-flight welcome video to Mission X 2015, a 6-week international fitness challenge – In-flight videos to MX15 on exercise and food choices – TWEETS: Sam Cristoforetti @AstroSamantha, throughout her mission sharing sites and activities from the ISS – Welcomed Mission X children in 3 locations on Earth to the ISS during a inflight call on 24 March 2015 – Cristoforetti will hold the record for “the single longest duration mission undertaken by a woman astronaut,” taking the title from NASA’s Suni William.”

166 % Total Visits and Total Teams per Country

Total Teams % of Total Visits

22 Germany 2.59 14 Netherlands 2.60 19 Japan 4.56 99 France 4.61 52 Spain 4.92 65

Colombia 6.38 COUNTRIES 22 Austria 9.25 67 Italy 10.31 55 United States 15.43 369 United Kingdom 21.07 0.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 200.00 250.00 300.00 350.00 400.00 TOTAL TEAMS

167 % Total Visits and Total Teams per Country

Total Teams % of Total Visits

1 Indonesia 0.48 8 Romania 0.59 7 Switzerland 0.72 15 Finland 0.75 5 Canada 0.76 8

Australia 0.95 COUNTRIES 34 Denmark 1.02 20 Sweden 1.19 16 Greece 1.33 28 Portugal 1.61 0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 30.00 35.00 40.00 TOTAL TEAMS

168 % Total Visits and Total Teams per Country

Total Teams % of Total Visits

0 Slovenia 0.06 25 Chile 0.14 1 Puerto Rico 0.22 1 Russia 0.27

Czech Republic 2

COUNTRIES 0.33 9 Norway 0.38 4 Belgium 0.42 12 South Korea 0.47

0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 30.00 TOTAL TEAMS

169 170 How to Improve Attendance at the Monthly Teleconferences?

Attendance per Country Aug. 2014- April 2015

9 MEETINGS 4

8 MEETINGS 1

7 MEETINGS 3

6 MEETINGS 2

5 MEETINGS 4 Attendance 3 MEETINGS 1

2 MEETINGS 3

1 MEETING 0

0 MEETINGS 9

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Number of Countries

171 How to Improve Attendance at the Monthly Teleconferences?

Countries Present at 0 Meetings Countries Present at 5 Meetings Belgium German Chile Greece Czech Republic Italy Finland ESA Indonesia Countries Present at 6 Meetings Romania Australia Slovenia Austria Sweden South Korea Switzerland Countries Present at 7 Meetings Countries Present at 2 Meetings Colombia Canada Denmark France The Netherlands South Korea Countries Present at 9 Meetings Japan Countries Present at 3 Meetings Spain Portugal UK USA 172