Two A4 pages. The ask for Stardust 2026, then the platform behind it. Colour holds on print.
Seattle and online worldwide 2 and 3 November 2026
For schools, universities and ministries
Bring your students to space. They do not need a visa.
Stardust 2026 is two days in Seattle and on a worldwide stream: talks and panels, a career fair, poster
sessions, the finale of the Stardust Challenge and the Stardust Awards. It is free with a Stardust account, and a
class watches together from its own room. Behind it is Stardust Odyssey, a free space-education platform where
anyone, at any age, learns space by doing it. Stardust Inc is a company based in Northern Ontario, Canada, with
Stardust USA LLC in Seattle: the human side of space.
161Challenge entrants from 46 countries
17speakers confirmed, more unveiled weekly
1,055members on the platform
0cost to a school, ever
Counted 6 October 2026 from the live database. Outreach reach (100,000+ students over the years) is a separate figure and is never added to these.
What we are asking of you, this autumn
1. Watch Stardust 2026 with your students
Register your institution, take a join code into each class, and stream both days on the event page or on YouTube. Sessions run 10 AM to 4 PM Pacific; recordings follow for members. Send a delegate to Seattle if you can; the address is shared with registered guests in October.
2. Enter teams in the Stardust Challenge
Teams pick one of eight categories, build a real project and submit an abstract and a poster. Team registration closes 15 October, abstracts 19 October. Winning teams present on the stream from their own classroom; the judges sit with them on day two.
3. Open a portal in your name
A branded academy for a school, a district, a university or a ministry, in your own language, on the same free platform, with a dashboard that shows what it reached. Two national programmes are signed; yours would be built the same way.
How a class gets in
One codeA teacher takes a join code to a classroom. No fee, no licence, no minimum class size.
One accountA free Stardust account each. It works on the phone a student already has; under-18s go through a guardian.
One eveningStardust 2026 is streamed; a class watches from its own room, in its own time zone, with the chat open.
TogetherThe teacher takes the whole class into a world at once: the Moon, Mars, the station, their own town.
The people on the stage
17 confirmed so far, from a university neuroscience laboratory, a student space network, a rocket ranch, a space engineering company and a NASA mission's outreach, with the rest unveiled one at a time on the conference page. The Stardust Gala closes the evening of day two, by invitation.
Talk to us: Shifa Zahra, Director of Space Biology and Strategic Partnerships, shifa.z@stardustinc.ca. Jason Michaud, CEO, jason.m@stardustinc.ca.
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The platform behind it 6 October 2026
Stardust Odyssey, free to every school
Your students do not watch space. They go and do it.
A course on Stardust Odyssey is finished by doing the thing: crafting the recipe, flying the rocket you
built, standing on the Moon. Every course keeps one route that needs nothing but a phone, so the camera and the kit
are offered beside a free route, never instead of it. No age limit, no grade requirement, nothing to install.
The Academy
29 free courses, from how rockets fly to who owns space. Every one can be finished by doing something rather than answering questions, and the platform records who did what, so the teacher does not have to.
The Stardust Worlds
Twenty places a class walks into together: the Moon, Mars, the cloud deck over Venus, the space station, built on measured terrain and climate data. A class starts on its own real ground and builds a town that asks for what that ground has.
Stardust Orbit
What is over the school tonight: where the Space Station is, when it passes over, and a phone pointed at the sky that names what a student is looking at. A family viewing evening runs on it.
Careers, guests and community
Career fairs with real employers, live rooms with people who fly and build, ambassadors in 48 countries, and the Challenge as a project track for a whole school.
What an institution gets
Your students, free
No age gate, no school gate, no fee. A join code is all a classroom needs, and a teacher can run a class the same day.
Your lessons in front of ours
Your own lessons and guest speakers into our rooms, and a Challenge category set from your own priorities.
A portal in your name
Your branding, your language, ministry-led or school-led where that is the right shape. We carry the platform.
What it actually reached
A dashboard showing the students and teachers your involvement reached, counted from the platform, not an estimate.
Already signed, in the country's own name
Egypt · EEP
A signed 30,000-student network. National portal live. Committed, not delivered, and kept apart from the membership figure.
Kingdom of Eswatini
300,000 students, the figure Eswatini gave us. Committed, not delivered. Ministry-led portal in motion.
Who it is for, and what we are not
Everyone, at any age. There is no age range, no grade range and no school requirement anywhere on the platform, so a school decides what a lesson counts for. Members have told us they are in 68 countries, and that is a floor: only about four in ten have said where they are. We hold no accreditation and we accredit nobody; what we offer is the learning and the community. Every figure on these two pages was counted from the live database on 6 October 2026; ask for them again on the day you need them.