How can one become a national point of contact?

Please use the answer that follows to assess if you would like to be a candidate for a national point of contact in your country. If so, please email the executive office (officer(at)spacegeneration.org) to register your interest along with your motivation and how you can contribute to our global organization:

Who are National Points of Contacts?
NPoCs are volunteers that are interested to be the contact point for SGAC in a country.

What do we expect from National Points of Contacts?
National Points of Contact (NPoCs) are expected to:

# do research what other organisations exist in their country
# get in contact with them

SGAC in principle does not want to create yet another space interest group.(although it can be used for that if there are no or few space groups in your country;
you are free to take advantage of our endorsed link to the UN to help you persuade people to support you in your country).

In several cases, we have found that it is highly beneficial for us to have more than one National Points of Contact for a country - especially if candidates for NPoCs are new to the organization. In this case, we expect the appointed 'co-NPoCs' to work together.

What does a NPoC do?
Step 1: familiarize yourself with all space activities especially carried out by youth, or focussed on the youth within your country. We would like the NPoCs to prepare this as an overview of the country's youth space activities, the different youth organizations that are involved, and the regional distribution.

Step 2: furthering your space awareness: Once you have familiarized yourself with the space activities and organizations, are there any events or projects that SGAC and the other student/youth organizations work on together? Are projects run by SGAC popular amongst these organizations, for e.g. Do the other youth organizations know of space generation congress, or Yuri's Night?

step 3: Engage: Organize with the help of experts within the country's youth space organizations, outreach programs that can spread the awareness of the space issues, benefits of space activities, and/or of special events such as, for e.g. talks coinciding with lunar/solar eclipses, or yearly events such as Yuri's Night OR ad-hoc events to celebrate anniversaries that may be more particularly important to the country's youth - for e.g. the anniversary of founding of the nation's space agency, flight of its first satellite or astronaut.

In other words, we are looking for NPoCs that are highly motivated and can dedicate some of their time to helping us understanding
* what is important to the youth space advocates in your country,
* what they are doing right now?,
* how can we help them and
* report how well was the help received and perhaps what can be done better next time! :-)

If you are interested after reading this, please contact our officer at officer@spacegneration.org to learn how to apply.
Please get in touch. Let's make Space Happen!