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On March 22nd, World Water Day 2017, Pope Francis will inspire a global conversation. His address from the Vatican will help shift how the world values and understands its single most precious resource: water. Immediately following the Papal address, at 10:30 a.m. CET, 400 thought leaders from around the world will convene at WATERSHED. These policy makers and academics, together with students, artists, business leaders and men and women from the most at-risk populations will begin an unprecedented dialogue around the value and values of water.

Richard Branson's Virgin Unite Launches Student Initiative in Space

The new Galactic Unite initiative encourages students to become space entrepreneurs. Next up for Branson? Exploring not just space, but the world's oceans.

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Virgin Unite, the nonprofit arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, announced Wednesday the formation of Galactic Unite, which will be aimed at encouraging students to pursue careers in space exploration and aviation. Galactic Unite, a partnership with Branson's commercial spaceliner company Virgin Galactic, will be working with NASA's Student Launch Program, a competition in which middle school students design experiments using the
environment of suborbital space to answer scientific and engineering questions. The winning experiments will be sent into space on rockets provided by the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium from Spaceport America in New Mexico.