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A dedication to outreach, inclusivity and diversity is important to all of us working with ORBYTS, so we have tailored our program to be accessible to students from groups which are traditionally under-represented in the science and space communities.

The unique feature (and main advantage) of the ORBYTS program is that students are involved with real-world publishable scientific research; it is thus concerned with topics far beyond their basic curriculum. Despite this, the topics students consider and the methods that they utilise in their research projects are seeded in their high school education and thus links can definitely be drawn between their ORBYTS project and their curriculum. The teachers are particularly useful in highlighting these links, as they are much more familiar with the school curriculum. The ORBYTS tutors can explain how the basic concepts evolve into the cutting-edge research concepts.