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Balloons everywhere12/9/2023 Nic Hughes has also written about Skycademy in his blog.Richard Hayler has written up a blog post about his experience.Visit Twitter and look back over our #skycademy hashtag.If you want to find out more about our Skycademy CPD event, then you should check out the following: I've passed #Skycademy !! Special thanks to & all at for a brilliant HAB course. We are incredibly proud to have certified our first Skycademy cohort, and are excited to see what they accomplish over the next year. Watching #skycademy presentations /UuyIhNFmnn We were so impressed by their presentations, with ideas for student engagement, plans for testing, kite flights, collaborative launches and more. Over the course of the next year we will be support and funding each teacher to carry out their own independent launch with young people back in their schools and clubs. Our final day saw our teams tasked with evaluating their first launch and planning their next. We’re hoping that one day it might be washed up on a beach and returned to us. Our penultimate payload, RPF-A2, was sadly under-filled with helium, which, whilst giving it a nice gentle climb to an impressive 32km, also extended its flight path out to sea. Giving our starting point of being concerned about whether launches would be possible, we were over the moon to launch all five payloads and recover…four. We received a whole host of amazing images from our flights as they rose to 33km Back at HQ we watched with equal amounts of excitement and anxiety as our first-time HAB trainees gave chase! Teams then leapt into their cars and sped away to intercept their payload at their predicted landing site. Something we were a little nervous about doing again…. Simultaneous balloon launch #skycademy /ibcTWUvxAe We (like the balloons) were blown away by the confidence on the teams the first two teams were ready so quickly that we launched them simultaneously. Quick take-off from the #skycademy launch pads /2SMNJYH0Q9Īlmost as soon as we’d released our balloon, the teams quickly got to work readying their flights. We packed our flight with a GoPro camera to capture some amazing footage.įirst balloon away! #skycademy /LbmrhjUhMV However, thanks to an slight easing of the weather conditions and us finding a more westerly launch site, we were thankfully able to launch five flights in quick succession, starting with a demo launch by Dave and me. With strong easterly winds, there was a high risk of us losing payloads – if we were even able to get them off the ground!Ĭome on nearly there, bit more west would be great! #skycademy /yUwmRAb4DU Leading up to the day we were a little nervous. The plan was for each of our four teams to launch and recover a flight the following day. Here’s a short (and, we think, appropriately dramatic) video to give you a flavour of the three days.ĭuring their time with us our educators received some intensive training from both Dave Akerman and myself, and in teams were provided with all the kit they’d need for their flight. We wanted to engage and inspire those that attended and through them reach young people across the UK and set them the challenge of reaching near space. We started back in February with the idea that we’d like to train 24 educators to launch a HAB flight with their students. However, six weeks on, we have a lot to talk about! It’s been a while since we blogged about Skycademy, the High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) CPD event we ran back in August.
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