WHAT WE OFFER

Model Mars is a global inter-disciplinary platform for youth weaving together the threads of aspirational and STEM/STEAM education in the space sector, the imagination and world building of science fiction, and the cooperative governance simulation approach of the Model United Nations.

BENEFITS TO YOUTH PARTICIPANTS

• Participation in an immersive, imaginative, and co-created learning environment
• Community-building experience in which all voices count (especially those of under-represented groups), and all can contribute their own perspectives, share their aspirations, and learn from others in a global peer community
• Strategies to imagine and identify desired futures and to chart a course to realize them (e.g. anticipation and futures literacy and back-casting)
• Build a diverse and critical set of knowledge and skills (21st century, STEM and global citizenship), expand mind-sets and horizons, gain the agency and ability to make practical and meaningful contributions to people and planet on Earth, and to a more democractic space sector.
• Learn about career pathways and opportunities from experts and practitioners who share their knowledge, skills and life experiences

BENEFITS TO ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS

• Participate in and help develop a platform that meets a broad range of educational standards across disciplines
• Opportunities to reach and engage with next generation of thinkers and doers
• Access to cross-cultural and interdisciplinary peer communities, innovative methods of learning and new opportunities for partner collaboration
• Global visibility and support for you and your organization
• Potential new approaches for your work, methods, audiences and priorities
• Potential for collective funding proposals