Space logo win for Christian, 4
A four-year-old from Caernarfon has won the Welsh leg of a national competition to design a logo that will be displayed on the first rockets launching small satellites from the UK later this year.
One of the competition’s youngest regional winners, Christian Swinn’s 3D design (pictured below) gives a powerful representation of climate change and depicts a small satellite orbiting a heart-shaped Earth, coloured to highlight forest fires, melting icebergs and rubbish in the sea.
More than 10,000 primary school children aged between 4 and 11 years old entered the Logo Lift Off competition, run by the UK Space Agency in collaboration with Hopscotch Consulting to encourage the next generation to consider a career in the space sector.
The overall winner, announced on the International Day of Human Spaceflight (12 April) was six-year-old Callum Wilkinson from Bolton, who will have his logo displayed on the rockets.
As a regional winner, Christian will receive a personalised certificate, goody bag, a Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) learning kit, and an opportunity for his class to attend an online talk with a UK Space Agency representative.
The UK is set to become the first country in Europe to host small satellite launches this year, as set out in the National Space Strategy.
Christian, a pupil at Ysgol Gynradd Maesincla in Caernarfon, said he was inspired by two of his favourite books: The Boy Who Switched Off The Sun, and Where’s The Starfish?