REGISTER YOUR INTEREST FOR FUTURE INTAKES OF THE SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM! We will be in touch as soon as applications open for the July 2026 and any other future intakes of the BinarX School Holiday Program.
BINARX SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM – Register your Interest!
This year, we once again extend our gratitude to The Fogarty Foundation, who have returned as key supporters of the BinarX School Holiday Program. The Kalgoorlie BinarX School Holiday Program is also being generously supported by Curtin University’s Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer | Trailblazer.
We also wish to thank the WA Government’s Department of Department of Energy and Economic Diversification and the Curtin University School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Curtin University STEM Outreach for their support of the BinarX School Holiday Program.
If you’re keen to join us in Kalgoorlie in July 2026 (which will run either during Week 1 OR Week 2 of the July school holidays, pending expressions of interest), or any other future runs of the program around Western Australia, please REGISTER YOUR INTEREST BELOW so that we can get in touch when applications open for any future BinarX programs in Perth and around regional WA!
We could be coming to a town near you, so please get on our radar!
WE WANT TO PUT SPACE IN THE HANDS OF WA.
This exciting hands-on program with the BinarX team will guide you to design, construct, and launch your very own space-themed electronics project (payload) in a 3D-printed payload bay within your own personalised model rocket.
Entering its 3rd year in 2026, we are excited to announce that the program this year has been adapted for year 5-6 students (school year in 2026) and has moved to a shorter 5-day program. It ran at Curtin University’s Bentley Campus in the January 2026 school holidays (check out the photos and recap here!) and will travel to regional WA and run at Curtin University’s Kalgoorlie campus in the July 2026 school holidays.
Immerse yourself in hands-on tinkering with electronics, data, design and laboratory-grade testing equipment, as you build critical thinking, creative and communication skills that will serve you far beyond the school holiday program.
This program is based on the BinarX Student Payload Development Program currently in schools, where 10 WA high school student teams from 8 WA high schools have designed, built and in June 2025 handed over their own payloads (electronics and software experiments) for the Binar-5 CubeSat being built by the team at the Binar Space Program as part of the Binar-567 Mission. The mission is scheduled for launch on a SpaceX rocket and deployment into orbit in space from the International Space Station in Q4 2026 and the students are now building SatNOGs ground stations to enable them to communicate with their payloads in orbit, approximately 400km above the surface of the Earth!
**program order and rocket launch location may be updated subject to weather conditions
BINARX SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMS - REGISTER YOUR INTEREST
Really keen but can’t attend? We’ve published videos and materials from the 2024 + 2025 editions (suitable for Years 8-11) of the BinarX School Holiday Program on our GitHub for you to explore! Resources for younger students will be shared as soon as they are available.
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