100-year of Sergey Korolev, 150-year of Edward Tsiolkovsky and 50-year of the first artificial Earth-satellite jubilees have stimulated us to start a new educational experimental project “Space technologies, ecology and clean energy in schools of the future” for Moscow schools in 2007. The essence of the project is to create an experimental educational platform on the basis of а number of Moscow secondary schools. We are involving schoolchildren in activity associated with high technology of real time monitoring of the Earth surface and solar energy conversion.

Portable, inexpensive receivers (described in section 2.1) were installed in ten Moscow Schools designed to get and process space images of the Earth sending by satellites in real time mode. School students started getting the experience of work with the Earth surface images taken from the space under supervision of their teachers, and later on independently (Fig. 13). They are taught to bind these Earth surface images to the geographic map using specially designed algorithms. Within the project, schoolchildren also acquire basic knowledge related to renewable energy using experimental solar PV modules installed on the roof of school building (Fig. 14).

Pupils monitor, in real time, solar radiation by measuring electricity generated by the solar module and compare these data with information received from satellites according to scheme at Fig.13. A new design (without EVA) of 10 W solar modules with organic-silicon polymers encapsulant (VIESH) was used for school project [2] (Fig.13). The size 500 х 500 mm2 is very suitable for experiments in schools.