In summer 2021, the Provizio team from Kharkiv won silver prize in the finals of the Vernadsky Challenge engineering startup competition. The war made some corrections of their plans, but the desire to develop and improve the startup didn’t change. 

The space hackathon ActInSpace was held in 34 countries of the world on November 18-19. The hackathon takes place every year under the auspices of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the French National Center for Space Research (CNES). NGO “Association Noosphere” recently signed a memorandum of partnership with the Slovak Space Office, so this year Ukraine joined ActInSpace in Slovakia.

Noospherean October celebrated another event: the VEX RoboWeek STEM course. During the last week of the month, children and teenagers between the ages of 6 and12 learned the basics of programming and designing robots. A total of 25 young inventors attended the course. Noosphere organized the Meet and Code initiative.

On November 8 National STEM Day is celebrated in the USA. Noosphere could not pass by this holiday as all of our activities are aimed at popularizing STEM in Ukraine. STEM education will permeate all fields of knowledge soon, so we have to think about how to prepare children and youth for the challenges of the future.

Noosphere Space Games Intermediate Edition is the second virtual rocket modeling competition using the Kerbal Space Program. Last time, more than 450 participants from all over Ukraine joined the event.