Congratulations to Get with the Program! They are one of 16 organisations to have won funding from the Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority’s 2024 “Reach for the Sky” Challenge Fund to offer their Moon Landing Coding Adventure free to 120 schools in the UK.
The aim of Reach for the Sky is to help young people find out about careers in aviation and aerospace.
“Our coding adventure is a remotely delivered theatre-in-education event for 5-9 year olds, during which the children learn to design, write, test, and debug algorithms. The adventure consists of an exciting interactive video and fun-filled theme-based follow-on activities. By working with our classic teaching duo of ‘Professor’ Trice and AL the (female) Robot, the children’s mission is to program AL to get her safely onto a Saturn V rocket, ready to launch her to the moon! As with all of our coding adventures, ‘Moon Landing’ has been designed by a teacher, is fully aligned with the computing curriculum and focuses on diversity and inclusivity to smash stereotypes around gender and ethnicity.”
Sign up your UK-based school or youth group and find out more about the activity.
Find out more about Computer Science in Space from the CS4FN blog.
Possibly that age group might be a little young to make a note for the future of this (closed) undergraduate placement for a software engineering role at Airbus…
… or this (closed) software engineering role supporting the space industry at Goonhilly Earth Station.
The “Jobs in Computer Science” site ‘traps’ information about the range of jobs in and around computer science so that teachers, careers advisors, students, anyone can browse and find out about the options at their leisure.
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