BINARX JANUARY SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM (CURTIN UNIVERSITY BENTLEY CAMPUS) 2027 – Jan 13-15th and 18-20th, 2027 inclusive. The program runs for 6 days in total, but this year we will split the program over two weeks to allow for a mid-program break.
Register your interest below and we will be in touch when program registrations open later in 2026.
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 4th year in 2027, the program is planned to once again run for year 5-6 students (school year in 2026) as a 6-day program from January 13-15th and 18-20th inclusive.
in 2026, the program ran at Curtin University’s Bentley Campus in the January 2026 school holidays (check out the photos and recap here!) and travelled to regional WA for the first time and ran 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!
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.
The BinarX School Holiday Program July 2026 was generously supported by Curtin University’s Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer | Trailblazer, who we welcomed as our Legacy Initiative Partner – Regional Delivery Sponsor (Kalgoorlie 2026). We once again extended our gratitude to foundation BinarX School Holiday Program sponsor the Fogarty Foundation, who returned as key supporters of the BinarX School Holiday Programs in 2026 and have provided early and sustained support of our programs since 2025. Their involvement and early investment and support of our program has been instrumental in our expansion into regional WA.
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 2026 BinarX School Holiday Programs.
