Space Careers: A guide for Parents and Carers
Space Careers: A guide for parents and carers
Did you know that there are hundreds of exciting careers opportunities in the UK's fast growing Space Sector, spanning everything from space medicine and law to engineering, management, and marketing? and that your child could be a part of this incredible industry?
The work may be 'out of this world', but the opportunities are closer than you might think.
So here at the National Space Academy, we have created a brochure to help you, the parent/guardian discover the variety of roles available, the potential routes into them, and how to help your child navigate the possibilities!
Space Careers
An overview of the sector: www.spacecareers.uk/uk-space-101
Information on space jobs: www.spacecareers.uk/articles/advice_and_information
Competitions: https://www.spacecareers.uk/articles/66ff5583-70cc-4242-8ca7-fb5a3691328b
Activities for children: https://www.spacecareers.uk/articles/8c16c8de-1807-4e89-a8c1-4c7e12eb36a6
Useful Resources
- Association for Science & Discovery Centre | find a centre to visit near you: https://www.sciencecentres.org.uk/centres/
- ESA Kids | Games and activities from the European Space Agency: https://www.esa.int/kids/en/home
- ESERO-UK | Space-related learning resources: https://www.stem.org.uk/esero
- National Space Academy | Careers information and conference for children: https://nationalspaceacademy.org/careers
- The Schools' Observatory | The broad range of space information and activities for children: https://www.schoolsobservatory.org / https://www.schoolsobservatory.org/things-to-do
- Space News Websites | General space: www.spacenews.com / www.spaceflightnw.com / www.space.com
- Space News Websites | Science focused: www.livescience.com/space / www.universetoday.com / www.phys.org/space-news
- UK Space Agency | Educational resources:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/space-related-educational-resources
