Activities to get involved

Give shape to the future – get involved! Join us!

• Check our open positions and see if there is something for you
• Join and contribute to our projects
• Attend the Space Generation Congress

Examples how you can help out SGAC

• Contact your National Point of Contact (NPoC) and ask how you can help contribute in your country
• Help out the Strategic Communications team
• Bring your views to the United Nations by giving your input through SGAC projects to COPUOS
• Introduce funding opportunities to the SGAC Executive Committee, such as grants, bursaries and corporate sponsorship from your employer or university (Contact Alex)
• Help update SGAC's database by finding contacts, e.g. head of department at universities who could tell their students about SGAC (Contact Alex)
• Get involved in forum discussions or start your own
• Write articles for the website
• Read the By-Laws and Statutes
• Add an activity to this list if we have missed one

What you can do locally (e.g. at your school)

• Hold SGAC supported space events in your school and community etc. (Yuri's Night, World Space Week, others)
• Introduce space events to SGAC and help us support them
• Inform teachers about existing possibilities, e.g. send pupils to space camp, work with ESA/NASA , use space learning materials, etc.
• Teach others about space
• Join local space groups, such as SEDS for local projects - get in touch with your NPoC to learn which space groups are active in your country
• Hold space meetings with likeminded people – create a network among young people
• Tell others in your network(s) (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, etc.) about SGAC activities and encourage them to join – generate interest
• Write to your local politician(s) and express your views about space industry development in your local area.
• Plan to attend IAC 2009 in Daejeon and write a paper
• Have your conference paper reviewed by a mentor in the SGAC network
• Add an activity to this list if we have missed one

Keep in mind to follow the rules how to properly represent SGAC at events if you do so.

For details how to help out with any of those tasks, please Contact Alex.