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Monday 22nd June, 2015 - Pre-16 Focus
in collaboration with
Ashington Learning Partnership
Venue: Discovery Museum Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA Morning (10 - 12pm) OR afternoon (1 - 3pm)
Places priced at our Easter “early bird” offer price of £3 per student (accompanying teachers free) if places are booked and paid for before the Easter holidays (deadline 27th March
2015). Any places remaining after the Easter holidays will be available at the standard Space Expo entry price of £5 per student.
For more information or to book a place, contact Andy Gaskell on 07972 288 104 or by e-mail: [email protected].
Book as soon as you can to avoid missing out on the chance to engage with a vast array of businesses that are part of the innovative UK Space Sector and find out what it takes to have
a career in an incredibly exciting area of scientific discovery.
Each two hour session will comprise a keynote presentation from our very special guest speaker Dr Lewis Dartnell, followed by an open access to our associates’ trade stands and
workshop activities.
THE RETURN!
THE GREAT NORTH EAST SPACE EXPO
Keynote Speaker Bio: Dr. Lewis Dartnell
'Astrobiology' is a brand new field of science, encompassing
research into the origins and limits of life on our own planet,
and where life might exist beyond the Earth. But what
actually is 'life' and how did it emerge on our own world? What
are the most extreme conditions terrestrial life can tolerate?
And where in the cosmos might we reasonably expect to find
ET? Join Dr. Lewis Dartnell on a tour of the other planets and
moons in our solar system which may harbour life, and even
further afield to alien worlds we've discovered orbiting distant
stars, to explore one of the greatest questions ever asked: are
we alone...?
Dr. Lewis Dartnell (www.lewisdartnell.com) is a UK Space
Agency research fellow based at the University of Leicester, studying how life, and signs of
its existence, might survive the intense cosmic radiation on the surface of Mars. He also
holds an STFC Science in Society Fellowship, and alongside his astrobiology research writes
regular science articles in newspapers and magazines, and has appeared in TV shows such as
BBC Stargazing Live, Wonders of the Universe and Horizon. He has published a popular
science book introducing astrobiology, “Life in the Universe: A Beginner’s
Guide” (tinyurl.com/LifeInTheUniverse) and also an illustrated children's book with Dorling
Kindersley, "My Tourists Guide to the Solar System" (tinyurl.com/TouristsGuide). His third
book, ‘The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch’ is out now in hardback
(www.the-knowledge.org).
THE RETURN!
THE GREAT NORTH EAST SPACE EXPO
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