YUMNA MAJEED - EXPLORATION
Partnered 2020 - Lahore, Pakistan
Yumna Majeed is a space educator and aspiring astronaut. She has been working to promote astronomy and space technology in Pakistan since 2016. Yumna founded Exploration which is a space education-based social enterprise. She believes every kid should get answers to their space imaginations which they usually don't get in their classrooms. For that purpose, she is working in affiliation with various international space organizations. She has been appointed as National Outreach Coordinator of Pakistan for The Organization for the Proliferation of Space Studies. Yumna Majeed graduated from Allama Iqbal Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan.
By working through Yumna and Exploration, TOPSS seeks to expand access to space-related STEM education to the bright and deserving young minds throughout Pakistan!
MONTHLY REPORTS
Office Space Established
World Space Week
Guest Speaker at Air University
Science on a Sphere
Blue Moon Night Sky Observation
Space Mails from Planet Yumna
Tour of the Solar System
Night Sky Observation
Cosmonaut Interview
Space Settlement Judging
Live Session with NUST Rocket Team
IIUI School Zoom Session
Organizing Future Talks
Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter
Space Mails
IAU Guest Speaker
Life of an Engineer at NASA with Joan Marie
Ramon International Science Communication Conference
Space Mails
Altaf Mehood Foundation Visit
Interview with City 42 News Channel
A live session with PIA Planetarium, Karachi
A live session with Center of Physics Education, Karachi
25 Space Mails have been dispatched
Interview with Geo News TV
Interview with Express News TV video
Interview with Khabargaam
Interview with Urdu Point
Interview with National Point
Interview with Women Engineers of Pakistan
Interview with The Tomato Timer
Interview with Elle Tech
Initiated construction of school in Tharparkar poster
Space Art Session with Shangla Girls School, Khyber Khaktoon Khuwah
A session with SMB Fatima Jinnah School, Karachi
Space- Art session with Khatoon-e-Pakistan School, Karachi
Lunar observation
Response to space mails were received.
Yumna has been working in collaboration with a Belgium based organization, Stars Shine For Everyone. She has won 2 telescopes by them, autographed by astronauts and Nobel Prize winners. Yumna’s signature has been added among the signatures of astronauts and Nobel Prize winners on the telescopes of 2021, and it is no less than an honor for us!
Ask an Astrophysicist - Yuri’s Night special session
A talk with Blue Chip Scholars
Interview at 24 News HD
Interview at Lahore news
Interview at ARY News
Top 5 paintings selected for Project Beyond by Space For Art Foundation
FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY STATEMENT
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MONTHLY OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
$330
THARPARKAR SCHOOL BUILD
$2600
NEW TELESCOPE FOR OUTREACH EFFORTS
$500
SOLAR OBSERVATION GLASSES
$100
TRAVELING METEORITE MUSEUM EXHIBIT
TBD