It is vital that the student delegates prepare for the 2004 NSAW conference. They will be coming from a variety of different backgrounds and interests. In order to contribute meaningfully to the discussion at the conference, the delegates must have a common understanding of the current space program in Canada. Therefore, the conference organization committee has prepared a set of 16 slides (click here), summarizing recent strategy and budget information about the Canadian civil space program. The student delegates are expected to be thoroughly familiar with this information before the conference. If you have trouble downloading the file, you can request a paper copy be mailed to you when you register online.

Additional documents that the delegates should read critically before the conference are the current Canadian Space Strategy document prepared by the Canadian Space Agency (click here), and the results of the recommendations of the youth conference at the 1999 United Nations conference on space, UNISPACE III (click here).

Delegates can also check out the Canadian Space Agency website at http://www.space.gc.ca with the Canadian Space Directory, a database of companies working in the space sector in Canada at http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/app/csd/csd.asp.