{"id":97,"date":"2022-11-20T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:22:37","slug":"about-kats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/about-kats\/about-kats\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-huge-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>Introducing KATS <\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#40a8f8;line-height:1.9\"><strong>Kids Action Thru Science (KATS) is an innovative climate change education outreach project created by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watersecurityhub.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.watersecurityhub.org\/\">Water Security &amp; Sustainable Development Hub <\/a>and developed and delivered by Newcastle University. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"line-height:2\">The KATS project encourages young people to learn about climate change issues, enabling them to acquire the skills to become climate activists and global citizens, helping accelerate action to achieving the <a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\">UN&#8217;s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SDG Action Awards - KATS (Kids Action Thru Science)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wXGS-rFPHJs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"line-height:2\">Grounded in creative, hands-on activities, and enquiry-based learning about climate change, KATS employs citizen science techniques to enable young people to collect, analyse and report on their own data, to understand how climate change is affecting their local areas (and what is happening globally), inspiring them to become &#8216;climate superheroes&#8217; and help solve the world&#8217;s most pressing challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"line-height:2\">The KATS team have successfully delivered this project out to local schools within the north east of England with students aged 8-12, that explore the Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on Climate Action (SDG 13), Life Below Water (SDG 14), and Life on Land (SDG 15). These projects have focussed on climate change themes such as, water pollution, air pollution, fast fashion, global citizenship, renewable energy, and local biodiversities. Some activities include, using Virtual Reality (VR) headsets to explore life below water, using mobile sensors to collect data about air quality and weather patterns, creating climate superheroes and climate stories, testing water quality and becoming news reporters on the &#8216;KATS Global Network&#8217;. Recently, the KATS project has expanded out to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/kats-barbados-sids\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"74\">Barbados (SIDS) <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/kats-india\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"348\">India<\/a>, where we have explored how climate change is impacting young people&#8217;s environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2023\/02\/f99c4675-ba56-43c7-aef6-a4b70e0daa31-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"404\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2023\/02\/f99c4675-ba56-43c7-aef6-a4b70e0daa31.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/about-kats\/about-kats\/f99c4675-ba56-43c7-aef6-a4b70e0daa31\/\" class=\"wp-image-404\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-large-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>KATS Around the World <\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"line-height:2\">Our intention is to expand and roll out the KATS project internationally to countries that are most affected by the impacts of climate change, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/global\/sids\/\">Small Island Developing States (SIDS<\/a>). By delivering KATS worldwide, we aim to capture young people&#8217;s knowledge of climate change issues within their own environment and allow them to pass on the &#8216;<em>torch of knowledge<\/em>&#8216; to children around the world, mobilising a global network of climate superheroes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"line-height:2\">We continue to work with the Water Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watersecurityhub.org\/where-we-work\">Hub<\/a> to develop and deliver the project in Colombia, Ethiopia, India and Malaysia, making KATS even more internationally focussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-large-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>Check out our latest projects: <\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/KATS-muddy-hands-0-0-0-0-1646142777-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"71\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/KATS-muddy-hands-0-0-0-0-1646142777-1.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/kats-uk\/kats-muddy-hands-0-0-0-0-1646142777-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/KATS-muddy-hands-0-0-0-0-1646142777-1.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/KATS-muddy-hands-0-0-0-0-1646142777-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/KATS-muddy-hands-0-0-0-0-1646142777-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/KATS-muddy-hands-0-0-0-0-1646142777-1-450x300.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/kats-uk\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"63\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">KATS: UK<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/W4zc_oaY.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"118\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/W4zc_oaY.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/about-kats\/about-kats\/w4zc_oay\/\" class=\"wp-image-118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/W4zc_oaY.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/W4zc_oaY-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/W4zc_oaY-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/W4zc_oaY-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/W4zc_oaY-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/W4zc_oaY-450x300.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/kats-the-puffin-project\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"47\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">KATS: Puffin Project<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_2506-3-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"243\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_2506-3-2-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/kats-efects\/img_2506-3-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/12\/IMG_2506-3-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, 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src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/uQ85fCgQ-2.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"163\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2022\/11\/uQ85fCgQ-2.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/kats-barbados-sids\/uq85fcgq-2-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-163\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/kats-barbados-sids\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"74\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">KATS: Barbados (SIDS)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2023\/04\/SUE_5353-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"652\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/files\/2023\/04\/SUE_5353-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kats\/about-kats\/sue_5353-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-652\" 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