Here is a collection of tweets from the 9th Appleton Space Conference, held at RAL Space on Thursday 5th December 2013. Details of the conference programme and attendees can be found here.
Thursday, 5 December 2013
9th Appleton Space Conference - HRH Prince Andrew Duke of York
"We need students to get involved in science and engineering, we have a problem with
growth in space industry and needing to bring more people into this. Its important to
communicate the excitement of science and technology.
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Where are you going to get the next generation of young people from?
Unless you encourage some forms of outreach programmes, I know all of you do
it, but there seems to be a missing link somewhere – that’s really the point I’d
like to make today.
I’ve been inspired from the point that I was actually prevented from
doing Physics at school. I was forced into general science when I wanted to go
and od Physics. I then went to the Navy, had a certain amount of “your”
technology delivered to me either in my aircraft or in my ship, but it’s the growth
of the applications in the 21st century that means we need to
encourage more and more young people to make use of these applications and get
the word out there.
I go round schools, support a number of different schools, universities,
technology colleges, academies, private schools, as a matter of course. But its
how to get some of the applications into their programme.
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