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Space Tour

All-Ukrainian Scientific Marathon for Youth
What? When? And Why?
Space Tour is designed by a team of young Ukrainian scientists and educational activists striving to grow the scientific potential of our homeland despite the challenges posed by war.

This project is a series of nine lectures from leading national and foreign scientists for Ukrainian youth. Starting from May, we will hold weekly Zoom conversations with astronomers, physicists, and engineers on a cosmic range of topics: from mysteries of dark matter and energy to rocket construction, from exoplanet search to space weather (the whole list of topics is available below).

In two months, we hope to unite nine scientific experts from different continents and more than 50 Ukrainian kids thirsty for knowledge. Bringing together students of 12-18 years, currently limited in their ability to receive a high-quality education, we hope to strengthen the ambitions of curios, passionate about space kids so that they keep pushing Ukraine to new horizons in the future.

We invite Ukrainian students to join us!

You can fill out the registration form to listen to any of the lectures.
2
months 
Every week, we will hold a Zoom meeting of scientists and Ukrainian students to explore the depth of the Universe together.
50
teenagers
Space Tour unites 12-18 y.o. students passionate about space sciences from all over Ukraine to facilitate their scientific growth.
9
topics
Our project gathers a team of leading national and foreign physicists, astronomers, and engineers to talk to Ukrainian kids.
Let's Talk About Science!
Our shuttle flies up in May and plans a cosmic landing by the end of June 🚀
May 5

15:00 Kyiv
(12:00 GMT)
Aeronautics: How to Construct the Smallest Rocket Ever
Misha Rudominski

CEO and Co-founder in Promin Aerospace - an aerospace startup offering a lightweight solid-fuel rocket, the smallest orbital rocket in history, capable of deploying a payload to a low Earth orbit.
Language: Ukrainian
May 12

16:00 Kyiv
(13:00 GMT)
Features of Comet Research
Vasyl Ponomarenko
Researcher at the Astronomical Observatory at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; astronomy teacher; researcher of small bodies in the Solar System and active nuclei of galaxies.

Language: Ukrainian
May 17

18:00 Kyiv
(15:00 GMT)
Searching for Exoplanets
Kate Follette
Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Amherst College, investigating stars with adaptive optics technology to find young exoplanets and circumstellar discs forming planets around those stars; STEM education researcher.
Language: English
May 21

18:00 Kyiv
(15:00 GMT)

Microlensing in Search for Outer Worlds
Petro Voloshyn
A 3rd-year Physics (QFT) student at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Currently an intern at IJCLab (Orsay, France), who works on identifying and analyzing exoplanets via gravitational microlensing.
Language: Ukrainian
May 23

20:00 Kyiv
(17:00 GMT)

May
James Webb: Our Way to New Horizons
Gary Golnik
A former NASA Optical Systems Engineer who has worked on the James Webb Space Telescope for 20 years.
Language: English


June 1

19:00 Kyiv
(16:00 GMT)


June 2

19:00 Kyiv
(16:00 GMT)
The Mystery of Dark Matter
Alexey Boyarsky
Professor of Leiden University; works in the direction of particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics.

Kyrylo Bondarenko
A CERN researcher who received a Ph.D. at Leiden University; currently works at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), investigating particle physics and cosmology.
Language: Ukrainian
June 9

19:00 Kyiv
(16:00 GMT)
Cloudy With a Chance of Solar Particles
Mary Hudson
Space Physicist at Dartmouth College, studying space weather patterns, solar wind, and its interaction with the magnetic field of the Earth; a Co-Principal Investigator on two experiments on the recently launched NASA Van Allen Probes satellites, and on the Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL).
Language: English
June 14

16:30 Kyiv
(13:30 GMT)
Anatomy of Discovery
Jakub Bochiński
A manager of space projects; an astronomer who has discovered several planets outside of the Solar System and a new type of pulsar, radio-pulsing white dwarf binary star; a member of the education committee at the European Space Agency; a TED speaker and science communicator.

Language: English 
June 25

17:00 Kyiv
(14:00 GMT)
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Taisiia Karasova
A student of the University of Groningen; a bronze medalist at the International Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad and International Astronomy Olympiad; a founder of AstroSandbox - the project that provides support to high-school students studying astronomy. Within the project, Taisiia leads webinars and holds the national competition Astro Battles.
Language: Ukrainian
Our Creators
Space Tour results from a collaboration between three non-profit educational initiatives for Ukrainian youth: AstroClub, IAT, and AstroSandbox

Creator and leader: Kateryna Havryshchuk
Management team: Viktoriia Voitiuk,
Diana Zazubyk, Taisiia Karasova
  • AstroSandbox
    A winner of the national educational award that unites Ukrainian high-school and university students and teachers to support teenagers interested in astronomy in deepening their knowledge and preparing for astronomy competitions.
  • Astronomical Group IAT
    An astronomical society at the Institute of Aerospace Technologies of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute," created for students from all over Ukraine to advance their astronomy knowledge.
  • AstroClub
    The all-Ukrainian educational initiative within the Junior Academy of Science of Ukraine for high-school students to study astronomy with peers, prepare for competitions with teachers, and develop scientific projects.
Contacts:
+380 68 946 42 26
khavryshchuk21@ugs.foundation
voutiyckviktoria@gmail.com
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