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The Planet Science website started life as the public face of the Department for Education and Skill's Science Year initiative.

'Science Year' was an educational campaign to inspire young people and enhance their perception of science. It was deemed to be a success, and extended for another school year by the DfES to July 2003, and renamed Planet Science.


The
website and the Planet Science newsletters are now owned and run by NESTA and will continue into the future.

Science Year / Planet Science
projects 2001 - 2003


The vision: for young people and their key influencers to engage with science and recognise it as a creative, inclusive and representative field of study that offers exciting rewards and diverse career opportunities. Also for teachers to work in effective learning environments with innovative, cutting edge equipment that inspires and empowers both them and their pupils.

The mission: to find sustainable ways to build partnerships, deliver innovative projects that work within the changing framework of science education, and challenge the stereotypical image of science.

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what happened during 2001 - 2003?

Throughout Science Year and Planet Science, the Science Year Team ran a huge number of programmes and activities:

Science Year & Planet Science
all projects with links to more information.

Some of these Planet Science & Science Year Projects with pictures!

Heroes of Science Year
Onstage
Out & About
Poster Power

These programmes helped to contribute to our aims.

We worked with some of the country's leading science-communication and commercial organisations to ensure that activities were top quality and appealed to a wide audience of all ages.

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who was behind Science Year / Planet Science?

Planet Science was delivered by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Click here to meet Planet Science’s old team.

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partners

The Association for Science Education (ASE) and the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) were Planet Science’s key partners, and we retain strong links.

We also worked closely with
Science Line, the award-winning, and amazingly FREE, public-access science information line, to provide top quality web content and other resources for Planet Science. Science Line is no longer running, but you can ask questions here.
http://www.bescenta.co.uk/home/ask_the_expert.cfm

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friends

Yes we had friends who helped to support Science Year.

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what do people want to know about?

The things that most people want to know about are:

Outreach
The Giant Jump
Whodunit
Also check out:
Planet Science Archive
Science Year Archive


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