AXA Arctic Live 2018

1 May 2018 - 10 May 2018

Running for a fifth year, XL Catlin Arctic Live has established itself as the most northerly live education event, connecting thousands globally with the latest science from the UK Arctic Research Station on Svalbard.

Between 1 and 10 May 2018, Encounter Edu set up a field-based classroom running three different sessions to inspire and inform students about the polar region and latest field marine research on microplastics and ocean acidification in the Arctic Ocean.

Over five days, the Encounter Edu team ran 30 YouTube live broadcasts including 10 live investigations, 10 interviews with members of the expedition team and 10 ‘Ask-Me-Anything’ sessions with polar educator Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop. Combined, 20 one-to-one video encounters and 30 live broadcast lessons directly engaged over 21,000 students across 200 schools in 30 countries.

Key stats

Days

Speakers

Live lessons

Countries

Students

21k

Social reach

200k

Highlights

Arctic Live 2018 Sailing Boat Kongsfjorden

Arctic Live 2018 Brown Elementary Hillard Ohio Usa

Arctic Live 2018 Colegio La Salle De Burgos

Arctic Live 2018 Smith Elementary Newark De Usa

Arctic Live 2018 Avgoulea Linardatou Private School Peristeri Greece

Arctic Live 2018 The Experimental High School Attached To Beijing Normal University Beijing

Arctic Live 2018 Keeping Warm Experiment Jamie Ellie

Arctic Live 2018 Microplastic Sampling Bottles

Arctic Live 2018 Nick Cox Jamie Buchanan Dunlop

Participants

Testimonials

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The children and class teacher involved today really enjoyed the whole experience. All the adults were impressed with the way Jamie interacted with the class and how the link allowed them to see around the Research Centre. It has provided them with a much better understanding of the research being undertaken and will hopefully encourage a few to consider science as a career.

Sian Gair

Teacher, Wootton Wawen CE Primary School, UK

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What an inspirational session! The children were very impressed with the view and are particularly interested in the fact that the team was looking at microplastics. It's great that they are having the opportunity to see the relevance and opportunities that science can bring.

Emma Crisell

Teacher, Richard Taylor Primary School, UK

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Wow! Real snow! Our students haven’t seen that in over three years. We were amazed and so engaged with all the information from our Q&A session.

Debbie Reveles

Teacher, Peters Colony Elementary, Texas, USA

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After the live session, we had a long discussion about water pollution with plastics and we are all going to try our hardest to pick up rubbish especially if we go to the beach. We are going to set up some litter pickers for our school field to make sure animals like foxes and hedgehogs don't eat rubbish blow from the road.

Louise Stone

Teacher, Recreation Road Infant School, UK