Students from the North: Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons wants you to become junior astronauts   

Media advisory

Longueuil, Quebec,  — On , Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons will give a virtual presentation to more than 170 students and their teachers. She will encourage them to participate in the Junior Astronauts campaign. She will also talk about her experience during the CSA's astronaut recruitment campaign and about the training she received afterwards.

Media are invited to attend the presentation at the schools listed below.

Media who cannot be there in person, but would like to attend virtually, are asked to contact the CSA's Media Relations Office by email at asc.medias-media.csa@canada.ca by , at 11:00 a.m. ET.

What Who Time Address Participants
Presentation about the Junior Astronauts campaign and about the training program for Canadian astronauts
  • Jenni Sidey-Gibbons, CSA astronaut
11:00 a.m. MT St. Patrick High School
5010 44th Street
Yellowknife, NWT X1A 2R2
20 students
10:00 a.m. PT F.H. Collins Secondary School
1001 Lewes Boulevard
Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 3J1
30 students
Robert Service School
967 5th Avenue
Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0
24 students
Vanier Catholic Secondary School
16 Duke Road
Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4M2
40 students
J.V. Clark School
Mayo (Yukon) Y0B 1M0
12 students
Selkirk Elementary School
5 Selkirk Street
Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 3J5
45 students
Del Van Gorder School
100 Bell Avenue
Faro, Yukon Y0B 1K0
9 students

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