Jupiter hell lockdown7/8/2023 This all started when a friend of mine (a daughter of my old Guide leader) asked if I could do something for her Brownie group – I’d visited them in person before and taken a telescope, getting all the Brownies through their space badge in one evening. If you would like more information about our services, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us on 01772 892344 or I said in an earlier post, I’ve been offering free virtual planetarium shows via Zoom to Brownie and Guide groups around the UK since January 2021. You can update your contact details and communication preferences by clicking here. You can view our updated privacy notice by clicking here. The winner will receive a £30 Amazon voucher and there are books for the runners-up.Īsk your parent / guardian to review the full T&C’s. The winning designs will be given out to Alston Observatory visitors. Use your artistic skills to design a space badge – from stars to planets, telescopes to extra-terrestrial life, create your design to inspire future space explorers. Know someone creative in the right age group? Ask them to get their pencils out! Hurry though, entries close on October 31st.Ĭalling all space fans aged 5-16 years old! But, everyoneloves a good badge for their backpack/camp blanket/whatever! So, we’re asking people between the ages of five and sixteen to get creative and help us design a new Space patch that we will get made up and give out to young visitors to our Observatory. Cubs and Scouts have Astronomer badges, and Brownies have a Space badge, but Guides don’t (sadly). We get a lot of Cub and Scout groups visiting the Observatory, but far fewer groups of Brownies or Guides. If you want a show for your class or group, just fill in the form here – all you need is a laptop, projector, and a wall or screen to project me on to!Īfter all the fun with the planetarium shows, a couple of us at UCLan hatched a plan to ask kids to help us design a new Space Badge for Alston Observatory. The questions asked by all the Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers I have spoken to over the last year and a half have been brilliant, and it’s been such fun answering them all! I don’t know who it was that nominated me for this, but a HUGE thank you to whoever it was! It is always a real pleasure to talk with enthusiastic groups about astronomy and share my passion with them, and that is a brilliant reward in itself. I’m astonished to say that in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list published today I have been awarded the British Empire Medal for services to Girlguiding during the Covid-19 pandemic, in recognition of my efforts to help girls earn their Space interest badges during the pandemic, and for being a role model showing girls that science is fun and that they can be scientists if they want to be. Not at the level I did during the pandemic, since groups have returned to meeting in-person, but I’m still delivering shows to groups (and schools!) I could never visit physically because of the distance, and having a lot of fun doing it. Seventy shows and more than 1400 girls later, I’m still getting requests. When I first started delivering virtual planetarium shows to Brownie groups back in the lockdown of January 2021, I never expected how popular they would be.
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