Satellite Crafts Workshops for Kids As part of #MyKvarkenSat Crafts Competition we will arrange satellite crafts workshops in Seinäjoki and in Vaasa. The first crafts workshop will be in Seinäjoki Ideapark on Saturday September 3rd from 11:00 to 14:00. The second crafts workshop will be in Rewell Center, Vaasa on Saturday September 10th from 10:00…
Join the Space Saturday at the Wasa Future Festival in Wasa Innovation Center. You can even watch the event on the YouTube Channel. Program 14:00 – 15:30 Space Saturday What is the Kvarken Space Center?, Heidi Kuusniemi and Kendall Rutledge / University of Vaasa KvarkenSat satellite mission, Jaakko Yliaho and Kannan Selvan / University of…
Learning should start at a young age Pupils and teachers from Mustasaaren keskuskoulu visiting our satellite workshop at LUMA Center Ostrobothnia in Technobothnia. An important part of our KvarkenSpaceEco Interreg project is to raise awareness of the opportunities of space. We do this work with people of all ages in the Botnia-Atlantica area. After the…
Five teams were rewarded in KvarkenSat Innovation Challenge 2022 – Team Gaenseliesel won the hackathon The KvarkenSat Innovation Challenge on sustainable forestry was held in March 2022. The idea of this hackathon was to combat the climate change in sustainable forestry with help of space-based data. This hackathon was open for students, startups, and researchers.…
Young people competed in building and launching CanSats in Vaasa Participants of the CanSat 2022 Finland’s national competition in Vaasa. Photo: Jan Holmgård. ESERO’s first national CanSat competition in Finland was held in Vaasa this week. KvarkenSpaceCenter was a co-organizer of the competition. The European Space Education Resource Office, ESERO, is a space-training program coordinated…
Kvarken Space Center visited Nummen koulu Kvarken Space Center was invited for a school visit to Nummen koulu (Nummi School) in Vaasa (Finland) to talk about satellites and organise a satellite-building workshop. The visit was organised on 22nd March 2022 and it included three lectures and two satellite workshops with 200 school children aged 8…