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Space School - Sputnik and Apollo

27/7/2017

 
So Final day of Junior Space School "Astronaut Training" and Satellite Launches and the turn of Sputnik and Apollo.

One Satellite "launched" by Sputnik and a pretty good effort by Apollo (with a little help!) - see communication in 'space' is not that easy.

Space School - Peake and Philad

26/7/2017

 
First day's teams at Leicester Space School were Armstrong and Gagarin with Peake and Philad on Day two.

Two successful launches of the Dive Rutland "Satellite" although the Peake "Mission Control" instructions were a little difficult to be understood by the team "in space".

Philad excelled themselves and so far are holding the "Team Building Team of the Junior week award"

Leicester Space School - "Astronaut & Satellite Launch" Day 1

25/7/2017

 
The first "Satellite" Launches in 2017 at Leicester Space school, resulted in one successful launch and one well lets just say in space terms, it launched and then 'exploded'.

Extra Curricular - Space - Hampton College

20/7/2017

 
Congratulations to the students of Hampton College who participated in a 'space session' with us at the Peterborough Lido.  Starting with a some basic skills and then off to the deep end to build a 'Space Satellite'

The aim of the session to experience weightlessness and to undertake an activity when you can not 'talk' to your team.

We hope you enjoyed yourselves and have fun for the rest of your Space sessions.

Sam's Work Experience - Day Three, week two

20/7/2017

 
PictureYeah - Container closed....
So the last day of my work experience with Dive Rutland, although tomorrow (Thursday) is the actual last day, this is Tracey's day off (sorry, had to mention it! as it never seems to happen) and I plan to sleep most of it.

The day was busy and started early with me meeting Tracey and her husband (Paul) at her house as we were off to Peterborough Lido for an extra curricular activity for Hampton Academy who are having a Space themed week.  Tracey will put an blog up with pictures.
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We ran a two hour session with some basic skills and then they built the space object being used for  the Leicester Space School that Dive Rutland is running over the next three weeks.  

On returning to the dive centre, sat and had something to eat (trying hard not to fall asleep - even Tracey was tired!) followed by offloading all of the equipment and packing it away - except the BCD's which I put out to dry and then it rained really heavy, so they took a little longer than normal.  As we had used all of the small cylinders and some of the Dive Rutland club members are diving Norfolk this weekend we then filled them all.

Tracey finished resolving some issues with a customers regulator and moved some school regulators around to match their First Stages... and the last real job was to place a supplier order.

I hope that you have enjoyed my daily blog updates as I have learnt a lot in writing them.  Its been a fun work experience and I have learnt loads, including finally how to close the containers without help!...  Thanks for reading.... and see you all soon.

Sam's Work Experience Week 2 Day 2

19/7/2017

 
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The day consisted of preparing for the normal Tuesday night pool session and the Wednesday morning pool enrichment session which you will hear more  of in day week 2 day 3 blog.

So, in preparation for Wednesdays pool session all of the 7 L pool cylinder had to be topped off and loaded onto the van, along with the 'space exercise'.. the same one being ran over the next couple of weeks for Leicester Space School.

After a busy day, we finished off by going to pool at 5:30 we had a club member gaining confidence in a dry suit, an open water student finishing off their confined water activities and two TDM's Rick and Gill at the end of the pool session doing a kit exchange but i didn't get to see it which was disappointing but Tracey said it was better than last week - there are pictures....

Then we went to the pub, again i was feeling  hungry so i had a big burger and an extra portion of cheesy chips, followed by going home and sleeping like a baby.

One more day to go as getting Thursday off, but its a long day....

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