What would your own satellite look like and what would it measure in space?
That’s exactly what kids at Variska Comprehensive School got to imagine, plan, and build during a satellite workshop last Friday.
← ESA Kids’ mascot Paxi, a space cat plushie, and the KvarkenSat model.
Together with Professor Heidi Kuusniemi, LUMA Centre Ostrobothnia Director Janne Koljonen, and research assistant Susanna Litmanen, we spent a fun morning with 140 pupils and their teachers, diving into the world of satellites, rockets, and space debris. Many hands shot up during the Q&A session after the presentation – space certainly sparked plenty of curiosity!
Afterwards, second graders got to take part in a hands-on satellite crafting session. They got creative, designing colourful and unique satellite models and deciding what kind of data their satellites would collect in orbit.
Once the satellites were finished, the kids got to present their missions, and gave the satellites imaginative names like Perhonen (“Butterfly”), Kimalle (“Sparkle”), and VariskaSat.
Thank you to all the enthusiastic kids and teachers for making the morning such a success!
