Have you ever imagined what it would be like to live on Mars? Maybe the question brings to mind flashbacks of Matt Damon cultivating his crop of potatoes on The Martian… but what about other important stuff, like mail? Who will deliver our postcards from Mars to our friends back on Earth? And how will mailboxes on the red planet look like? 🤔
We might not be able to send postcards to space just yet, but with the help of Matthew (aka COSmatthew), some families in Colorado Springs, USA enjoyed a fun space & postcard-themed afternoon this month! He organized a workshop at the Space Foundation Discovery Center that helped everyone sign up for Postcrossing, and send their own space-themed cards to people all around the world. How cool is that?!
Here is Matthew’s report of this event:
Greetings from the beautiful city of Colorado Springs in the United States of America! Our City is a large hub for the space industry in our country, so it’s no surprise that we have the Space Foundation Discovery Center, a top-notch space museum here for which I oversee Guest Relations.
This Summer, the Space Foundation Discovery Center is exploring the topic of what it will be like to live and work on Mars. One of our activities is a station where you can create your own postcards to send to others to let them know what you’ve been learning. This station has been so popular that I knew adding in Postcrossing would be a natural fit.
With the help of the Postcrossing staff, our Programs Team went to work learning how to use the Postcrossing platform and how we could best teach our guests how to get the most out of the experience. By the time the “Postcrossing to Mars” workshop came and went, we had a lot of smiling faces and kids (along with adults) who were positively giddy at the prospect of receiving postcards from around the world.
And who knows? One of our custom postcards that was made in the workshop might be coming soon to a mailbox near you!
Well done Matthew for this very cool workshop, and for bringing Postcrossing to the Discovery Center. Those big monitors make it look like a command center, and it’s really neat to see the website up there! Who would have thought that putting two cool things together would make something even cooler?!
34 comments so far
How wonderful and enterprising 😀
It's fantastic! How interesting! Great idea!
That's super cool! I hope to visit that neat museum someday. <3
Good Job and very inspiring.
What a great idea, also to see the kids very much involved in this Postcrossing project.Great Job Matthew.
Woo hoo space! That's wonderful!
so very cool!!! I wish i could have participated.
Space and postcards! What could be better?!
What a great idea and a fun time for everyone!
Crazy good idea and for sure the wonderful experience for young participants of this workshop.
Thank you, Matthew
Nice! :)
... and today I'm lucky to receive one of the postcards that have been created with this cool workshop :)
Thank you for this inspiring idea, Matthew
Cool!
very interesting!!! coll
I will flip out if I receive one of the postcards! So cool that this all happened!
What a cool place and what a wonderful Postcrossing workshop you all created! Love it ❤️
It will be extremely cool by receiving a space items postcard and chating with the kids. It is a good thing indeed to get the kids into the postcrossing at such a wonderful and beautiful age!!!
Wow! Wonderful idea! Very impressive and inspiring!
wow...what a great idea...hoping i will get one soon...
a card from "space", who would not like that. Great idea Matthew
Very cool idea!
I can't wait to have a card from space!! What a dream...
Super!
What an excellent idea! Fingers crossed I get one of these special postcards to treasure.
This is so amazing!
What a brilliant idea and a great way to teach kids 😀😀
Thank you all for the wonderful comments! Everyone who participated had a lot of fun and worked very hard on their cards, so if you received one, don't forget to register it.
We hope to do more Postcrossing workshops at the Space Foundation Discovery Center in the future, so be on the lookout for more of our cards going out to mailboxes.
And if you're ever in Colorado Springs, please come and see our museum, we'd love to have you!
A wonderful idea. I hope one the space project cards falls into my postbox.
Very cool!
This is really fabulous!
Creative idea.Beat wiahes for the workshop.
Great!
Amazing...Postcrossing is now mars high! :)
That's a really nice idea --
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