Sam Gibbs – Education and Outreach Coordinator

Sam Gibbs is a senior manager with many skills and experience in a wide range of fields. A marine engineer, a pilot, a ship master, a science educator, author, and leading organizer and coordinator of space education initiatives, Sam is an exceptionally talented leader. As a special Millennium project, he developed and inaugurated one of the world’s first interactive mobile planetariums and celestial observatories that was used extensively in the Alps Maritimes area of France, Astrodome France 2000. Since then he has been responsible for developing aerospace and science education programs and exhibitions in Malaysia. Some projects that have been initiated by him are the Mars Close Approach and the Centenary of Aviation Exhibitions held at the National Science Centre Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian Aeromodelling Carnival I & II, the Faulkes Telescope Robotic Astronomy Project, the International Space Settlement Design Competition in conjunction with NASA, the redevelopment of the TUDM Air Force Museum, content and exhibit development for the National Planetarium Kuala Lumpur and the new built Melaka Planetarium and ongoing development of Aerospace education programs for young adults and children. More recently he worked with a team of scientists and engineers from NASA and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as organizer of the NASA @ Melaka Planetarium international visit. A native of Australia but also educated in the UK and the US, he was awarded the Rotary Club of Australia “Pride of Workmanship” shield and the Australian Bi-Centennial Medal of Achievement.