Ready for the second launch ?
3... 2... 1...
Zero !
What are we looking at ?
The rocket !
Space rockets are launched
from Kourou...
a city...
When I was in year 3, we already worked
on space rockets,
with people who built rockets...
We learned things about rockets :
How to build space rockets?
How to use space rockets?
Everything...
Count down !
3... (push here) 2... 1...
Ignition !
Yeahhh ! It was too nice ! (why?)
Because the rocket took off !
It was niiiiice !
We built rockets !
With Olivier !
And Pascal
We like it...
They showed us many things
that I did'nt knew ... A bit!
Maroni river : French Guiana / Surinam border
Taluhen : native Wayana village
school "bus"
Tukishipan : traditional common house
Kayodé : native Téko village
Kayodé school
Elahé school : native Wayana village
Elahé school
Antékume Pata : native Wayana village
Antékume Pata school
My name is Alamijet
I'm a teacher here in Antekume Pata
I teach years 3 and 4
I've been working here for 2 years
Hi, my name is Estelle
I'm a teacher here at Elahé
I take care of childrens from nursery school to year 2
I teach 3 years to 6 years old kids
My name is Dylan
I came here...
I'm 23 years old
I discovered Kayodé and the Maroni river 6 months ago, in november, after Halloween hollidays
My name is Camille
I'm a teacher in Taluhen, teaching for year 5
It's my first year here.
Today we welcome the "Canopy of sciences"
to tell the kid about air
make the children understand that even if one cannot see it, air is everywhere anytime...
Air Pressure's concept was presented
And many other things
It gives the children a chance to open themselves
to the world in which they're evolving :
elements, Earth, sky...
This morning I briefly told the kids about Earth, sky, space, planets and universe...
So that they can understand
that our world is huge, while we're just little dots in the Universe...
Last week, we worked on air... and I could see this morning
that childrens were answering nicely to questions they were asked
Then...
We worked on...
recognition of...
different planets existing in space
and then kids got a chance to revise this with the "Canopy of sciences"
So, today we first built little space rockets.
Another group of pupils
understood how air does "push on things"
through experiments and manipulations, with people helping them...
A third group could discover
how many planets are orbiting in our solar system
Come with us, please... Nice !
3...2...1... Ignition !
Normally, when they reach year 5 or 6,
children should have been told a bit about these things
After all, it depends on each teacher,
on what the kids where taught the previous years,
and on how kids do remember it...
In fact...Mainly on the way things were introduced to the childrens
Actually, I know that if they did "rocket animations",
everyone will cleary remember of these things...
Since teams are changing here quite rapidly,
One can not easily know,
by talking with previous years'colleagues,
about what kids did or did not study in science
We cleary realise that
pupils are more impacted by this kind of "big events",
These are things they remember...
What we, teachers,
do more "classicaly" in the classroom...
if there's neither experiment and manipulation,
or outdoor activities...
Sciences on a sheet of paper : it just doesn't work !
First, It allows teachers to create link with some lectures
and then it's foundation works for the future
because it provides a concrete basis
for then making theory
We often tend to move from theory to pratice...
but moving from practice to theory is also nice
because one can also think back to...
"how did we make these rockets?"
How did the rocket take off ?
What did you see in the Virtual Reality headset ?
It's definitely a good working base...
3...2...1...
Zero !
Navigation to Pilima
last Wayana village on the Maroni River
"Space along the river" is an operation
where our team reaches villages
get installed in the schools
and we build "space rockets" with children...
water or powder propelled rockets,
rockets are then launched with kids' parents,
at noon or after school hours in the evening.
We work to make these gatherings turn into more than "just" a rockets' launch campaign
We introduce debates about more advanced concepts...
What is space? What is Universe?
What is a satellite?
How does all this works?
We propose pretty simple experiments...
Throwing projectiles...
Understanding air pressure...
Compress air in plastic water bottles...
How are gazes and air expelled from a rocket engine...
How will "action-reaction" allow to propell things
How is the trajectory ? With or without gravity ?
here are some examples of scientific notions that we introduce...
Wave transmission from Earth to satellite...
How is solar system being explored ?
What has been discovered there ?
Questions about size and order of magnitudes...
Sizes of planets, solar system or... in their familliar close neighbourhood...
Always connecting abstract notions with familiar references related to their everyday life...
Comparing a space rocket speed with time scales of any usual dugout canoe journey !
"Space along the river" was initiated 10 years ago,
by the CNES (National Center of Spatial Studies) and the Rectorat of French Guiana (National education)
The "Canopy of sciences" has been in charge of its execution since 4 years now.
In order to celebrate this 10 years birthday,
we introduced the most cutting edge technology...
spatial technologies first, for sure...
but also using virtual reality (VR) headsets...
new tech allowing immersion in a 3D virtual space,
with an headset masking totally the "real world",
and giving users a feeling of being immersed in space,
being able to touch heavenly bodies,
planets, distant stars,
VR experience consists for "Space along the river" in a complete renewal of the operation.
because we're adressing "classical" topics,
well known by teachers,
in direct continuity with the heart of schools' curricula, and what's done in classrooms,
discovering solar system and its 8 planets,
but now flirting with dreams, imagination,
and technologies that will soon be part of the daily life of these generation Z kids
My name is Denis
My name is Hervé
I'm 19 years old
My name is Antoine.
I'm 18 years old
What I saw in the VR headset was nice !
I saw the Earth, the sun,
all the planets...
Seeing planets, that close, was like a dream...
Yep... Amazing !
Agreed... Same thing...
It was good...
It was like in my dreams... For the first time!
It's good for us...
Yep... for me too.
I tried it for the first time...
Just as if Earth wasn't here any more...
As if what I see was real...
It was just great !
Excellent ! (yeah excellent !)
I just saw what i never saw before, and I loved it.
I could see stars, the moon, the sun and the Earth
I didn't know that... and I said to myself :
"Whaoo, that's the way it is?"
My name is Aiwé Aloïké.
My familly's name is Twenké
I just had time to see fishes and then it stopped... [submarine world was presented]
Yes... I really enjoyed it... Before it turned off... [auxiliary power unit suddenly ran out of fuel]
I'm not used to see this kind of image.
It was all very new to me...
I would have loved to see life in space...
I'm in charge of transport,
and logistic
for food, with my team...
So today, since we started with the Canopy of Sciences,
I gave them support...
especially with elder people,
So what was your question? ("just introduce yourself")
[Michel translating from french to Wayana language]
just to allow discussions, to call out young people
and sometime leave with the dugout canoe and seek for missing goods...
In every village, it's important to first meet the chief
to explain why we came and what we're doing here...
We do it everytime we reach a village.
And this is very important to meet the chief to be authorised to install a camp in their village.
Captain !
Now we intend to devellop a territorial continuity (French Guiana is as wide as Portugal)
We approach people where they live, but kids grow up
and have to leave their village to attend secondary schools in distant cities
and the promise we make can't stop to waht we said in their village when they werekids !
They need to find something in Cayenne. And it's now the case with the NumLab
a Numerical Fabrication Lab, whose creation was impulsed by the Canopy of sciences,
where are build softwares and Virtual Worlds that we now bring with us in VR to the kids
They find a place get acces to cutting-edge numerical technologies...The last ones !
Same mission, in a logic of territorial continuity, at the Kazlab
In Saint Laurent was implanted a Fablab
operated by our partner Manifact (Non Profit Organisation)
A place where people get acces to numerical fabrication technologies
For young people connected with the cultural context of Saint Laurent
for youngs who want to fabricate, build a project...
A place where everything is possible !
Once the youngs are in cities on the coast, they get acces to secondary and higher educational systems...
various secondary schools...
to a future university antena growing in Saint Laurent... Even university campus in Cayenne, but...
Beyond this, their vocation, their motivation for scientific studies and careers,
have to be nourished by such alternative places giving them open acess to STEM culture...
The strongest perspective we have is that we ought to engage in remote villages, young natives as local relays
Why not empowering young people already playing, as local achievers, a cement keyrole in their village society
to give them this dimension of insipring "relays" of the STEM culture, for the kids and their parents
and ensure continuity between two of our "visits" there
Why not involve people who could be sent some science equipements and given distant support
to operate it and give explanations in local langages,
Native Americans', Maroons', creoles' languages...
So that, finally, any potential barrier could fall in peoples'acces to this universal knowlegde
So that, as well, when w're not there any more, someone could answer inhabitants' and childrens' questions !
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