From the classroom into space

The Educational Lab offers several workshops for middle and high school classes, providing students with an introduction to topics such as space exploration and computer science and encouraging them to actively engage with these subjects.

In the workshop series «From the Classroom to the Space Station (ISS) – Programming with Astro Pi,» students program simple applications that run on computers aboard the International Space Station. In the process, they receive an introduction to programming and computational thinking.

The workshop series «From the Classroom to Space—Building Prototypes of a Space Habitat at Moon Camp» enables students to explore, both creatively and technically, what it’s like to live in space—not only on the Moon, but also on Mars or on asteroids—and to design their own prototypes for a space habitat using LEGO® (analog) or Tinkercad (digital) to design their own prototypes for a space habitat.