BINARX SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM 2026 – APPLY NOW FOR JANUARY!
This year, we once again extend our gratitude to The Fogarty Foundation, who are returning as key supporters of the BinarX School Holiday Program. 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.
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 will this year be adapted for year 5-6 students (school year in 2026) and will move to a shorter 5-day program. It will run at Curtin University’s Bentley Campus in the January 2026 school holidays, and travel to regional WA and run at Curtin University’s Kalgoorlie campus in the July 2026 school holidays.
We thank The Fogarty Foundation, 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 making this possible.
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. You will have access to Curtin University Space Environment Testing Facilities and use real space hardware.
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!
5 DAYS | $490 (full scholarships available)
For students in Year 5 and 6 (in the 2026 school year).
On-campus experience at Curtin University Kent St, Bentley, WA 6102
January 27th-31st, 2026 (Day Time Only)
9:00am – 4:00pm daily
(7:00 am start on Saturday, January 31st for Rocket Launches – Families and Friends Welcome!)
BYO lunch and morning tea
**program order and rocket launch location may be updated subject to weather conditions
BINARX SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM 2026 APPLICATION
Really keen but can’t attend? We’ve published videos and materials from the 2024 + 2025 editions of the BinarX School Holiday Program on our GitHub for you to explore!
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