Two A4 pages. The ask for Stardust 2026, then the platform behind it. Colour holds on print.
Seattle and online worldwide 4 and 5 November 2026
For schools, universities and ministries
Bring your students to space. They do not need a visa.
Most students never meet anyone who works in space. On 4 and 5 November yours can, free, from their own classroom. Stardust 2026 is two days in Seattle and on a worldwide stream: student teams from 49 countries presenting the projects they built for the Stardust Challenge, astronauts and engineers on the stage, and a career fair with real employers. Behind it is Stardust Odyssey, the free platform where anyone learns space by doing it, run by Stardust, a Canadian space company with its US home in Seattle.
173Challenge entrants from 49 countries
29speakers confirmed, more unveiled weekly
1,150members on the platform
0cost to a school, ever
Counted 15 October 2026 from the live database. Outreach reach (100,000+ students over the years) is a separate figure and is never added to these.
Register your school, then pick what you do with it
Watch it with your students
Give each class a join code and put the stream on the wall, 10 AM to 4 PM Pacific both days. Recordings stay up for members. Registered guests get the Seattle address in October.
Enter a team
Pick one of eight categories, build something real, send an abstract and a poster. Registration closes 15 October, abstracts 19 October. Winning teams present from their own classroom on day two.
Put your name on it
A school, district, university or ministry can run its own branded academy on the platform, in its own language, with a dashboard that counts what it reached.
Joining takes one code
A teacher takes one join code into a classroom. No fee, no licence, no minimum class size. Students open a free account on the phone they already carry, under-18s through a guardian, and the class watches from its own room in its own time zone. Register your school: stardustinc.ca/stardust-2026
29 speakers, named as they come
Among them a neuroscience professor, a Blue Origin astronaut, a rocket ranch founder, a space company CEO and a NASA mission ambassador, with one more unveiled every day on the conference page. The Stardust Gala closes 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.
https://stardustinc.ca/stardust-2026/
Stardust Inc stardustinc.ca/stardust-2026
The human side of space · Page 1 of 2
The platform behind it 15 October 2026
Stardust Odyssey, free to every school
Your students do not watch space. They go and do it.
Nobody finishes a course on Stardust Odyssey by answering questions. They finish it by flying the rocket they built, or by standing on the Moon. Every course has a route that needs nothing but a phone, and the platform records who did what so the teacher does not have to. There is no age limit, no grade requirement and nothing to install.
The Academy
29 free courses, from how a rocket flies to who owns space. A class can start one the same afternoon.
Stardust Rising, the game
Twenty places a class walks into together, built on real terrain and climate data: the Moon, Mars, the cloud deck over Venus, the space station. A class can also start on its own ground and build a town there.
Stardust Earthbound
What is over the school tonight. Where the Space Station is, when it passes, and a phone held up to the sky that names what a student is looking at. Families run viewing evenings on it.
Careers 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 a whole school can run.
What a school gets
Your students, free
One join code and a class is in. No fee and nothing to sign.
Your lessons, alongside ours
Your teachers and guest speakers in our rooms, and a Challenge category built around what matters to you.
A portal in your name
Your branding and your language. We run the platform underneath it.
Numbers you can quote
A dashboard that counts the students and teachers you reached, from the platform itself, not from an estimate.
Signed so far
Egypt · EEP
A signed network of 30,000 students with its national portal live. Those students are committed, not yet on the platform, so they are not in the member count above.
Kingdom of Eswatini
300,000 students, the figure the ministry gave us, with its portal under way. Committed, not yet on the platform.
Who it is for
Everyone, at any age. The platform has no age range, no grade range and no school requirement, so a school decides what a lesson counts for. Members have told us they are in 70 countries, and that is a floor, because only about four in ten say where they are. We hold no accreditation and we accredit nobody. What we offer is the learning and the people. Every number on these two pages was counted from the live database on 15 October 2026. Ask us again on the day you need them.