SpaceTurk and Education

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• SpaceTurk and Education

Selime GÜROL SpaceTurk/Ankara 2003
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• Space exploration started with curiosity and
  great interest
• Our Perspectives gives people new opportunities
  and new life experiences
• for their future.

• Developing countries should improve their
  knowledge about space and related activities.

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• Turkey hasnt taken the big step to be involved
  in space related studies
• Social,economical hurdles and the problematic
  education system cause the attention of the
  children to space to be shifted to other fields

• It is necessary to create applied education for
  the students in primary and in high schools

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World Space Week 2001
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Success of children
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• So the group tries to do as much as possible to
  create the space awareness among the young
  generation
• For the public awareness we have been at the
  stage of developing a database to test the level
  of Turkish people.

• We arrange observation nights and educational
  conferences at the schools

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• We formed a group called Canopus for the
  Aurora Student Design Contest of
  European Space Agency and succeeded
  to continue our two projects in Mission Design
  and Surface Robotics categories. 

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• The interests of citizens worldwide should be
  incorporated into research activities related to
  space.

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In Conclusion

• we are ready to corporate with Turkish states to
  maintain our goal to prepare future generations
  of Turkey and Turkic states to be able
  to compete and cooperate with the worlds
  leading nations in space research.

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Thank You
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