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SUPARCO, the National Space Agency of Pakistan, designed and developed a robust and visionary programme titled as ‘Space Education and Awareness Programme’ aimed at

• Stimulating the next generation of space-oriented scientists
• Broadening children minds
• Help building the scientific and technological capacity of the country

The programme strives to not only familiarize children and young adults with current research, technology trends, and uses of space sciences and technology along-with the numerous career opportunities offered by the space sector but also to let them know that space science can be fun and inspiring.

The programme offers a series of round the year activities and resources to enthuse students and general masses while strengthening academia-industry linkage. At the heart of this programme’s implementation lies the creation of a dedicated educational website ‘Space Education and Awareness Drive (SEAD)’

SEAD uses top-down approach to provide dynamic platform for students to participate in national as well as international activities and demand-driven bottom up approach for educators to organize awareness events at their premises.

Presently, sead.pk offers the following:

• A hub of space related information including celestial events, research breakthroughs, technology advancements, news of space activities etc
• Announcements of national/ regional/ international events, competitions, opportunities for Pakistani students
• Easy to use portals to apply for internships
• Round the year ‘Space Van’, project featuring three mobile education vans. The vans contain S-STEM (Space- Science, Engineering, Mathematics) experiments, sky viewing telescopes, educational videos, lectures/ presentations etc, and aims at reaching out to schools located in far, remote, rural areas of the country or locations as requested through the Space Van Portal
• Online contests for school, college and university students
• Portal to register your institution for World Space Week and conduct theme related activities at respective premises
• Teachers guide containing books for both teachers and students belonging to primary, secondary and graduate levels
• Career guide to orient interested students with suitable paths to join space technology sector