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 ...............................................................................................................................