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Monday 22nd June, 2015 - Pre-16 Focus in collaboraon with Ashington Learning Partnership Venue: Discovery Museum Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA Morning (10 - 12pm) OR aſternoon (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 aſter the Easter holidays will be available at the standard Space Expo entry price of £5 per student. For more informaon 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 innovave UK Space Sector and find out what it takes to have a career in an incredibly excing area of scienfic discovery. Each two hour session will comprise a keynote presentaon from our very special guest speaker Dr Lewis Dartnell, followed by an open access to our associates’ trade stands and workshop acvies. THE RETURN! THE GREAT NORTH EAST SPACE EXPO

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Page 1: The Great North East Space & Engineering · PDF fileKeynote Speaker io: Dr. Lewis Dartnell 'Astrobiology' is a brand new field of science, encompassing research into the origins and

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

Page 2: The Great North East Space & Engineering · PDF fileKeynote Speaker io: Dr. Lewis Dartnell 'Astrobiology' is a brand new field of science, encompassing research into the origins and

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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