Details of the London pilot of the `Discovery Project' are presented, where university-based astronomers were given the chance to pass on some real and applied knowledge of astronomy to a group of selected secondary school pupils. It was aimed at students in Key Stage 3 of their education, allowing them to be involved in real astronomical research at an early stage of their education, the chance to become the official discoverer of a new variable star, and to be listed in the International Variable Star Index database, all while learning and practising research-level skills. Future plans are discussed.
@article{arxiv.1707.07337,
title = {Discovering New Variable Stars at Key Stage 3},
author = {Katy Chubb and Rosie Hood and Thomas Wilson and Jonathan Holdship and Sarah Hutton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07337},
year = {2017}
}