St. Paul Elementary to Send Signatures to Space

St. Paul Elementary will be participating in an exciting project for Space Day. On May 25th, the students will sign a giant poster to be sent to space on NASA’s next mission.

Brian Ewenson will also be on hand to celebrate the special event. Ewenson is the coordinator of International Space Day and has been an aerospace educator for more than 20 years working with the Canadian Space Agency, NASA and Lockheed Martin.

Students Signatures in Space is a program that has been going on for over 10 years. NASA and Lockheed Martin formed a partnership to start this project and their main goal is to pique students’ interest in space.

Once the giant poster is signed by every student at St. Paul, it will go into space. After the mission, the poster will be returned to the school for permanent display along with an official NASA certificate verifying the signatures flew in space.

The students at St. Paul will be signing the poster at an assembly on Monday, May 25th in the school’s gym at 12:30 pm. Ewenson will be on hand to speak at the ceremony at 1:00pm. St. Paul Elementary is located at 230 Sherbrooke in Beaconsfield.

The Lester B. Pearson School Board is an English school board serving more than 32,000 students and staff in 60 schools, adult and vocational centers, an International Language Center, and an Administrative Center on a territory from Verdun westward to the Ontario border.