2007 Annual Report - World Space Week

3.4.2 BulgariaSchool for young astronautsLocation: Astronomical observatory and PlanetariumVarnaOctober 4 - October 10, 2007: Every day for three consecutive days there will be activities for students - theywill create space devices and stations. Until October 10th the exhibition will be shown in the schools in Varna and theAstronomical Observatory in Varna.Organization: Society of innovative teachers in BulgariaPoster ContestLocation: Schools in VarnaVarnaOctober 4 - October 10, 2007: Contest for best poster - 50 years from the conquering. Posters devoted tospace explorations will be prepared and shown in the schools in Varna. The best posters will receive prizes during aspecial ceremony in the Sea Garden - the alley of astronauts.Organization: Society of innovative teachers in BulgariaSpace FestivalLocation: Schools in Varna Varna, VarnaOctober 4 - October 10, 2007: The space festival on the alley of astronauts in the Sea Garden in Varna willinclude launching models of rockets, airplanes and flying kites. On October 4th there will be a show with models ofrockets and airplanes. There will be launching rockets and flying kites.Organization: Society of innovative teachers in Bulgaria3.4.3 Czech RepublicIn the year of the 50th anniversary of first Earth artificial satellite, the Czech Republic for sixth time in row was involvedin World Space Week activities. The national co-ordinator of WSW in Czech Republic was as usual Czech SpaceOffice (CSO) and its Center of Student Activities. Nearly seventy events organized by few dozens of institutions andindividuals demonstrated big interest in WSW in Czech Republic and is also proof of evidence of public interest inspace technology.For the 50th anniversary of the beginning of space age World Space Week Association prepared a very specialopportunity for students from different world countries: the opportunity to participate in weightless parabolic flightsduring ZERO-G campaign in Las Vegas. CSO invited young Czech space enthusiasts in to tender, and the bestcandidate was Ms. Veronika Simova (18), student of secondary school in Stribro. She was accepted by WSWAssociation and became one of nine international participants in this historical flight. This event was before and mainlyafter ZERO-G flight highly presented in media. We were very surprised by interest of wide public about the ZERO-Gflight and were also flooded by big quantity of questions about possibility to participate in similar (if opportunity willarise) event next year. We hope that this will be possible again.Information about Veronika Simova and her ZERO-G flight were published in following media:• Newspaper Dnes, average daily circulation 367 thousand copies (July 31st, 2007).• Monthly magazine Stribrsky zpravodaj (twice: in August 2007 and November 2007, circulation 1000 copies).• Newspaper Tachovsky denik (August 1st, 2007 and October 19th, 2007).• Magazine Svet (December 2007, average circulation 31 thousand copies)• Magazine Letectvi a kosmonautika (December 2007, average circulation 33 thousand copies)• Broadcasting station Cesky rozhlas Pardubice, daily 17 thousand listeners (July 19th, 2007).• Broadcasting station Cesky rozhlas Hradec Kralove daily 44 thousand listeners (July 21st, 2007)• TV station ZAK TV Prima, 450 thousand viewers average daily (August 3rd, 2007).• Broadcasting station Cesky rozhlas Plzen, daily 98 thousand listeners (October 11th, 2007).• Broadcasting station Cesky rozhlas Praha, daily 405 thousand listeners (November 2nd, 2007).• Czech national TV station, daily 450 thousand viewers (December 16th, 2007).54