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Happy Holidays from the SSEF
Wishing all our incredible supporters and volunteers a very Merry Christmas and a joyful holiday season! Thank you for your invaluable help and dedication throughout 2024, which has made this year such a success for the SSEF. We truly appreciate your hard work and passion, and we look forward to collaborating with you in 2025
SSEF Mourns the Passing of CEO Anita Gale
SSEF are saddened to hear of the passing of Anita Gale, co-founder of ISSDC, over the weekend. Anita spent her career inspiring young people around the world to pursue careers in science and space, and helped countless young girls discover their potential in technical fields. Anita will be greatly missed and her legacy will continue
Season’s Greetings
Season’s Greetings! Approaching year’s end, we at the SSEF naturally think of you—our supporters and untiring fans. Throughout 2021, you have provided our programme with multiple gifts: passion for science, devotion to learning, donation of service, funding and time. Thank you for helping to keep us in orbit! Dr. Randall Stewart Perry, Founder Space Science Engineering
How We Think and Learn
How We Think And Learn Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929 Catherine Twomey Fosnot Most people assume that learning results from teachers transmitting knowledge: clearly explaining concepts, procedures to be practiced, and facts to be memorized; then testing to assess retention
Why does the space competition work?
Randall Perry March 30,2018 I am often asked why the Space Design Competition (SDC) format works. Whilst my quick fire response when in the throes of organising an event is often, “It’s all the students’ own work, not ours”; this does belie the research and development that underpins the setting up