The gifts will be distributed to encourage young people to explore electronics as part of so-called “future laboratories” being established under Poland’s Ignis space education mission.
The mission, organised in cooperation with the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the Ministry of Development and Technology and the Ministry of Education, aims to inspire children to take their first steps in engineering.
Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski said that he began his career in space technology as an electronics engineer working on integrated circuits before moving on to develop more advanced equipment.
“See how you can use a simple key to transmit Morse code and start your own adventure with technology,” he said in a video shared on social media.
Uznański-Wiśniewski on Friday took part in a space-themed event hosted by the University of Wrocław in south-western Poland.
Although he was able to connect via amateur radio through the ARISS system, the link lasted only nine minutes, allowing the astronaut to answer just some of the questions posed by students before the signal was lost.
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Source: Polish Radio/X/@astro_slawosz