The destiny of a nation is being shaped in its classrooms.
Africa's first Space Exploration Educators Conference. 18–20 March 2027, Parklands College, Cape Town. Licensed by Space Center Houston.
Africa is reaching for orbit. Your classroom is part of it.
South Africa is targeting $10 billion in space-qualified exports by 2030, building from approximately $1 billion today. Africa's space economy is now valued at $25 billion and projected to reach $40 billion by 2030. The African Space Agency went operational in 2025, and more than twenty countries across the continent now run space programmes.
The students sitting in your classroom today will graduate into a world that needs space scientists, but also space lawyers, space writers, space accountants, space designers and space teachers. SEEC South Africa exists to give every educator the tools, the network and the confidence to bring space into their teaching, whatever they teach.
More about SEEC-SA →What happens across the conference
One community, built over three days at Parklands College's Innovation Centre, Africa's MaxIQ Centre of Excellence.
Ignition & Launchpad
Opening keynote from Daniel Newmyer of Space Center Houston. Hands-on STEM workshops and a panel of South Africa's leading space education voices.
Exploration & Payload
Cross-curricular sessions across maths, language, geography, art and history. An industry panel, and the Friday-night Gala Dinner under the stars.
Orbit & Beyond
Learners join us in the morning. Astronaut keynote from Amyette Jorge, closing workshops, prize-giving, and a public astronaut talk that evening.
Every educator. Every classroom.
We open the doors of SEEC South Africa to every educator, whatever you teach — mathematics, English, geography, business, life orientation, the arts. If you walk into a classroom and shape the people who'll inhabit Africa's future, this conference is for you.
- Qualified educators across every classroom and phase
- Final-year BEd and PGCE student educators
- Educators from under-resourced schools — apply for a bursary, no cost
- HODs, deputies and principals — bring your team
Pre-Launch · R4,900
Gala dinner included. Limited to 100 tickets — closes when we hit 100.
Standard · R4,900
Three full days. Gala Dinner available as an R350 add-on.
See all tickets →Our partners
SEEC South Africa is licensed by Space Center Houston and brought to Cape Town by a coalition committed to building Africa's space education future.
Be in the room when Africa's first Space Exploration Educators Conference opens its doors.
Registration opens 15 June 2026. Pre-Launch tickets close when we hit 100. Bursary applications open 15 June and close 3 July.