Schools & young people
Bring curiosity, different strengths and the need for sustained, inclusive enrichment connected to the real world.
The ambitions for space are growing faster than the workforce needed to deliver them. Spacecrafted helps build that pipeline — connecting young people with real missions, increasing responsibility and the people and opportunities of the space sector.
Climate, communications, navigation, food, infrastructure, disaster response and the environment do not stop at national borders. To tackle global problems, we need to see the whole Earth. That is why space matters to everyone.
Spacecrafted gives education and the space ecosystem a practical reason to work together.
Bring curiosity, different strengths and the need for sustained, inclusive enrichment connected to the real world.
Provides the agency structure, specialist teams, progressive missions, responsibility, evidence and a pathway from following to creating.
Bring authentic challenges, expertise, research, funding, feedback and onward routes into apprenticeships, study and careers.
Spacecrafted is not five parallel STEM activities. The teams depend on one another. Command & Control coordinates readiness and makes GO / NO-GO decisions. Launch gets the vehicle airborne. Instrumentation measures what happens. Satellite Services keeps payloads useful and recoverable. Mission Communications captures the evidence and tells the agency story.
Different interests and strengths become useful because the mission only succeeds when the agency works together.
Image gallery: See what an agency actually builds → Explore the Agency & all five teams →
The agency starts by following a structured mission. At each level pupils demonstrate more capability, coordinate more of the work themselves and move towards authentic external briefs.
Complete missions. Prove what you can do. Earn greater independence.
Spacecrafted begins with each group learning to operate as one agency. As agencies become more independent, they can take on shared briefs, compare solutions and compete to achieve missions.
Later-stage agencies can tackle the same challenge, test different approaches and see which team of teams delivers the strongest mission outcome — bringing some of the urgency, ingenuity and teamwork of the original space race into a safeguarded education setting.
The space race changed what was possible.
Later-stage Spacecrafted agencies can take on the same brief, compare solutions and compete to achieve the strongest mission outcome.
Explore the working student workspace, missions, teams, progression and evidence.
The demonstrator lets schools, partners and students see how the agency operates before committing to a pilot.
Elements of Spacecrafted have been tested with Year 8 pupils, aged 12–13, in a British secondary school. These were early classroom tests of the concepts, not yet a trial of the complete five-level programme.
“What struck me was that pupils were talking about Spacecrafted during break times — it had clearly captured their interest beyond the sessions themselves. I also saw real value in the way the programme builds a record of the skills pupils have demonstrated, giving them evidence they can later draw on for future opportunities. Spacecrafted combines genuine enthusiasm with something potentially very useful for their progression.”— Gordon Walmaley, Headteacher
“Two moments particularly stayed with me: watching pupils look to the biological world — including the shape of tuna fins — for inspiration for their rocket designs, and the laughter when they saw what the flight data did to their Test Pilot. The launch itself mattered because it belonged to everybody: all those different pieces of work had come together into one shared mission.”— John O'Hare, STEM teacher
The next step: a structured Founding Pilot of the complete progressive programme.
Spacecrafted is designed for sustained, team-based enrichment rather than a one-off STEM activity. It can run in schools, STEM clubs, Scout and Guide groups, Air Cadets and other youth settings — anywhere young people can work together over time on shared missions, responsibilities and skills.
Spacecrafted can support work with these frameworks; each retains its own requirements and approval processes.
A Spacecrafted agency can run through scheduled sessions in a school enrichment programme, STEM club, Scout or cadet unit, or other youth setting. Groups can begin with a single agency and progress through the five levels at a pace that suits their young people.
Each Spacecrafted agency operates in its own protected workspace. Students work within their own agency and team structure, while teachers retain oversight of progress, roles and activity. Agencies can later collaborate or compete through structured missions without exposing pupils to uncontrolled public interaction.
Spacecrafted works with industry, universities and space clusters to turn real programmes and problems into missions young people can tackle. You bring the expertise; together we build the schools and future-workforce pathway around it.
Don't build another schools programme from scratch. Spacecrafted can provide the schools, skills, inclusion and outreach layer around authentic challenges and expertise.
Support an agency, cohort or pilot so participation can remain free to young people and host organisations.
Bring a real problem or requirement. Spacecrafted turns it into an accessible mission across the specialist teams.
Add expertise, feedback, mentoring and onward opportunities as young people become ready for deeper engagement.
Building a consortium? Spacecrafted can be developed as a reusable youth-facing schools, future-skills, EDI, employer-engagement or outreach work package.
Spacecrafted is moving from classroom concept testing to its first structured pilot. We are looking for a small number of organisations that want to help prove and improve the model.
Start with one class or club, use the missions and resources, and help evaluate what works.
Fund participation, contribute an authentic challenge and add appropriate expertise and feedback.
Connect research, students and expertise with schools, industry and progression opportunities.
The same model could eventually connect young people and external partners around other fundamental challenges. These are future directions; Spacecrafted is the focus now.
Robotic MissionsAutonomous systems and exploration.
Climate ResilienceHelping communities adapt to a changing climate.
Urban Food SecurityRethinking where and how cities produce food.Spacecrafted combines classroom experience with industry ways of working, then connects both to the expertise and challenges of the space sector.
SPACE.CRAFT.ED. is a METAMORPHORCES Ltd project. · Early classroom testing complete; structured Founding Pilot next.
