World Space Week

“Space & Climate Change Trivia – Celebrating World Space Week”
by the Science Circle Moon Base Project

The United Nations General Assembly declared that October 4-10 each year shall be known as “World Space Week” to commemorate two key events in space exploration – the launch of Sputnik, the first satellite, on October 4, 1957, and the signing of what became known as The Outer Space Treaty on October 10, 1967.

By tradition, a theme is chosen each year. The theme for 2024 is “Space and Climate Change.” Over 16,000 events hosted by organizations in over 90 countries have been developed to celebrate World Space Week this year, many of which are on this year’s theme.

The Science Circle is joining others around the world in recognizing World Space Week. Our celebration will be in the form of a fun and informal educational event during which participants will be invited to answer questions about space in general and about climate change, particularly as it relates to space exploration and what can be observed from space.

The event will be in the Science Circle amphitheater. At the time of the publication of this abstract, the ‘rules’ for this event are still being discussed, but will be announced at the beginning of the event. They will likely include—

…participants may work individually or in teams

…questions will range from ‘easy’ to ‘hard’ and be assigned points accordingly, the more difficult assigned more points

…questions will be displayed in slides on a screen in front of everyone in the amphitheater, with a variety of answer forms ranging from an open answer, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, and other options

…participants have a limited time to answer, likely about one minute from the time the question is displayed and read by one of the moderators

…points will be given to the individual or team who writes the correct answer first in chat

There will be prizes of Linden dollars and possibly space-related objects for the individual(s) or team(s) earning the most points at the end of the event. If there is a tie, the tiebreaker will be whomever is able to safely land the Moon lander near the Moon Base Project site in the middle of Science Circle island. 😊