It’s one of the most inspriing stories- how a lad who read 3 books a day, apparently every book in the school library, had a dream.
Of taking the human race to space, to Mars
He had the knowledge, he needed some skills, so he learned to code, helped launch PayPay.
He sold his shares to launch a solar panel company, an electric car company and a starship company that has flown over 100 space missions with reusable rockets.
Love or loath Elon Musk (we don’t do either), you can’t deny it’s an inspiring story and one of several we’ve been telling kids on our UK tours.
Now the next chapter is about to unfold… join us
A blog that shows how naïve it can be to think that education isn’t political and how effective deliberately divisive policies are proving to be in dividing us at a time when we should all be finding common ground and coming together.
And I should know – today The Guardian misfiled, misrepresented and misquoted me when publishing a letter I’d written to them in Mr Angry mode (they’ve since issued a full apology and corrected it) and I’m still reeling from losing the support of a good friend and a few good people this week for giving them the wrong sandwich.
But who cares?
We had a fantastic day with one of our ‘Mission to Mars’ sessions at St Issey School, just down the road from Padstow in Cornwall, helping to launch #Cornwall22 as part of our #Ignite22 Festival Year
Launching a campaign to Start a Creativity Revolution.
We had a fantastic day launching our campaign to inspire a million kids with one of our ‘Mission to Mars’ sessions at St Lawrence Primary in Church Stretton in the shadow of the stunning Shropshire Hills.
We’ve been pleased to support the annual STEAM Day at thsi Camden School for the last three years, where they park the time table and offer students a range of creative sessions and talks,
WHat a day we had.
We were delighted that our ‘We’re All Born Artists’ film has been short listed for the Charity Film awards
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Our Person of the Year 2021
Isn’t a billionaire
Hasn’t changed the world
Doesn’t have 68m followers
BUT SHE IS:
As committed
As generous
As passionate
And does have the most important job in the world
Like millions like her
WHO WILL HELP US #IGNITE22
Vic Goddard is what we call one of our #BraveSchoolLeaders he not only leads the school community he serves but does so by doing what he knows is right, fair and works, running a truly cooperative comprehensive community school in event sense of those words.
So we bought him and his colleagues a drink.
Our Inspired To Learn Summer Tour was incredible so we want to do it again.
We want to rent the camper van again and hit the road but for a PROPER tour of the UK, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland back via Wales.
Our schools are broke so we’re looking for three sponsors to help us visit 30 schools before Christmas.
Inspired by a couple of dads, some women in space and all our kids. For all their futures.
The truth is out, he never really did go to space.
It was all a fake.
But today Captain Kirk goes to space for real.
If you saw us on BBC Breakfast ten years ago (see below) launching the Global Cardboard Challenge here in the UK, you may have wondered what those little blue clips were that we held the cardboard models together with.
Well it was a brilliant system called MakeDo from Australia that we’ve struggled to buy since but it’s back, improved and we’re proud to say that Nick is the first MakeDo UK Ambassador and we’re one of a handful of people selling it here in the UK.
What a fantastic day we had at Horndon on the Hill Primary School in Thurrock, Essex on Monday 4th October.
It was the first of our Trailblazers Art and Creativity Days this year with the Royal Opera House Bridge for Arts Council England, which is all made possible by funding from The National Lottery.
And what better way to kick off World Space Week too.
Today is a big day for The RSA with Andy Haldane, former Chief Economist at The Bank of England, being sworn in as CEO in a global online Town Hall event tonight after which we are going to host a Zoom reception to launch a #PowerToCreate21 initiative to test fellowship appetite for a year of creativity in 2022.
