Spacecrafted is the first mission in a new educational ecosystem connecting young people, schools, universities and industry around ambitious real-world challenges.
Too much STEM education stops at the activity: build the rocket, fly the drone, complete the worksheet.
The Moonshot Missions are designed differently. Students join long-running challenges, take on meaningful roles, create evidence, develop capabilities and gradually move from following instructions to contributing, investigating, coordinating and creating.
Each has something the others need. The platform gives them a practical reason to work together.
Young people explore genuine engineering and scientific challenges while discovering what they can do. Their work builds evidence of capabilities — not just participation.
Researchers and students can contribute specialist knowledge, develop extensions and turn emerging research questions into challenges young people can investigate.
Engineers and organisations can contribute problems, mentoring, missions and expertise while helping develop the future capabilities their sectors will need.
The first missions deliberately cross disciplines. They are large enough that no student, school or organisation can solve them alone — and open enough for new partners to add missions of their own.
Can young people build the capabilities required to design, launch and operate increasingly ambitious missions towards space?
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Design modular autonomous machines for real missions, trading payload, power, endurance, sensors and range against one another.
Future Moonshot Mission
How can communities adapt buildings, water, energy and public spaces to become more resilient to a changing climate?
Future Moonshot Mission
Can we redesign windows, buildings and overlooked urban spaces so that food production becomes part of the infrastructure around us?
Future Moonshot Mission
Spacecrafted gives schools a practical entry point. Students can begin with something as simple as launching a bottle rocket, then progressively take greater ownership of mission design, instrumentation, communications, satellite services and command.
The important outcome is not the rocket. It is what students learn they are capable of doing.
The objective is bigger than increasing enthusiasm for STEM. Britain will need technically confident, collaborative, inventive people able to cross traditional subject boundaries and tackle unfamiliar problems.
Spacecrafted provides the framework rather than claiming ownership of every future challenge. Universities, companies, research groups and other organisations should ultimately be able to contribute Moonshot Missions of their own.
We build the system. Subject specialists bring the problems. Young people bring the imagination.
Start with rockets. Discover capabilities. Then see how far young people can take them.
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