Member Spotlight: Starlight Education
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This week we caught up with Starlight Education to find out how they’re going further with Chamber membership.
Where are you based?
Newcastle Upon Tyne
How many people do you employ?
22
Give us a brief overview of your business.
We provide a wide array of educational services from summer camps and English courses to teacher recruitment for international schools overseas and custom educationally focused CSR campaigns for companies. Our main focus is on summer programs for international students looking to come to the UK.
What has been your top tip for keeping business going during Covid-19?
Going Online and adapting to the new hybrid educational systems that we are seeing in more countries in the world and finding adaptive responsive solutions to assist our clients in delivery to their students.
Tell us about a recent business success.
Arranging, finding sponsorship for and launching our NASA astronaut led Mission Discovery camp in Newcastle, which will run from the 25-29 October, where 375 local underprivileged students will have the opportunity to learn with the astronauts, NASA engineers and space scientists for 5 days designing an experiment for the betterment of humanity, and by way of a competition on the final day, have that design launched to the international space station for astronauts to conduct while the students back on earth tune in an watch.
Why are you a Chamber Member?
To grow and expand our network in the North East and build mutually beneficial relationships with companies in the region whilst promoting our STEM foundations goal getting more students in the North East interested in STEM.
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