National Space Awareness Workshop 2012

A refundable $20 deposit acts as a placeholder. It must be submitted via paypal to nsaw2012@gmail.com. Refunds will be given during registration on the morning of the workshop. Only your name, email and deposit are required for registration. Submit Deposit Here

Questions? Please contact nsaw2012@gmail.com

Students are elegable to receive up to a $20 travel grant the morning of registration. A limited number exist and will be granted on a first-to-register basis. To receive the grant, a receipt showing travel to or from the conference must be presented at the registration desk, along with valid student ID.

The 2012 NSAW Workshop is being held on November 17th 2012 in conjunction with the Canadian Space Summit, which runs from November 14-16th 2012 at Western University's Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration in London, Ontario.

 

Date:            Saturday November 17th 2012

Time:           0900 – 1715 hrs

Location:    Michael's Garden room. It is located in room 3320 of the Somerville House at Western University.

Western University is located at: 1151 Richmond St., London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
Somerville House is shown to be directly southwest of the red Campus Police icon on this map.

Agenda

The workshop will take two parts. The morning will consist of three guest lectures, each of which will focus on a different aspect of Canadian accomplishments. These could be Canadian achievements and ingenuity in space, Canada's future in space, Canada's involvement in space science and the space station or the benefits and impacts of Canadian involvement. The speaker will take questions and possibly form discussion at the conclusion of their presentation. Between each of the guest lectures, networking opportunities have been scheduled as apart of three scheduled breaks.

During the afternoon component of the workshop, participants will break into smaller interest related groups. The groups will focus on topics relating to key Canadian efforts, possibly including space medicine, space science (astronomy, exploration or atmospheric science) and engineering. It will be left to the teams to discuss the positive and negative aspects of Canadian involvement in these areas and how to best leverage current ability towards future success. (please note: each of the teams foci and objective for the afternoon portion of the workshop have yet to be finalized)