Last Tuesday ten children from the senior area were picked to take part in the high abilities stem incursion on Space Junk and Salvaging Satellites. The first thing that we did was to learn about all the things that make up space junk like dead satellites and parts of rockets. We had a scientist on our Zoom call who told us about how they are trying to work out how we can bring the space junk back down to Earth. Then we got to listen to two astronauts, one of which was in space! They spoke about the task we needed to do which was to design a helicopter launcher that can bring space junk back down to Earth. We used a range of material to try and make the helicopter fall quicker. The day was so much fun, and we learnt lots of interesting things about space junk.
Kaley and Kenzie SM