Today was the final day of our 'mini-astrofest' at Lomeshaye Junior School in Nelson. This is a photo of one of the classes there. I will blog more in depth about it later, right now I have just got off my bike after cycling home from school and I am dog tired.

Suffice to say it was a great day of astronomy.

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Assembling The Masses

Today was the first session at another school on our initial rotation of five schools. This time it was a twenty minute assembly and, quite frankly, we smashed it in to the stratosphere. There was only time to show a few Hubble images and a quick video about stars but, as is the standard, the students were hooked with almost a constant 'WOW!' being heard throughout. We are back in there tomorrow to deliver full sessions to their year six students. We'll blow them away again.

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Progress, Expansion and Star Parties

Beauty In The Universe always thinks forward, so I am pleased to announce that we recently had an extremely fruitful and interesting meeting with our local councillor, who kindly invested the time and resources we need to be able to buy some better equipment than we have at the moment. As a result of this we will very shortly have the ability to produce near-professional quality multimedia presentations. This will help us to educate to n even higher standard in the classroom and also it will improve the standard of our online delivery. It also means that we are going to be able to buy some decent telescopes and, as a result, offer star parties as part of our service and delivery. We are very excited about this as live events and telescope time have been next to impossible to include in our service thus far. That is now all going to change.

As a result of the support of our local politicians we are now in a position to broaden our service, extend our reach and enhance our delivery.

Further to this we are currently attempting to break in to a wider Lancashire audience. We have our sights set on Blackburn and Hyndburn education authorities as our next targets and, to that end we have already dispatched the necessary applications for funding ad whatever clearance we might need.

A few posts ago I set out some brave words, a rallying cry if you will. It was a statement of intent that, during a time of recession when the country is bracing itself for a battering, we are doing everything we can to advance the life-defining era of knowledge and to play our part in the age of reason. I hope now that you see I meant every single one of those words.

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Progress and Progressive Thinking

Our new website is in the testing stage so expect to see our revamped site very soon.

We are now halfway through our initial schools programme, rolled out in Burnley. It's been thrilling and we are pleased to have reached so many students. We now enter the inward run of schools with another school signed up and several schools enquiring about funding our service via the Institute of Physics. We have expanded our reach and are now pitching to wider areas of Lancashire, namely Blackburn and Rishton. We expect funding to arrive imminently to take the science of astronomy in to those schools too.

We have also hooked up with our local councillor, Liberal Democrat Charlie Briggs. He has assisted us in several ways and it now looks like we will be able to offer professional quality multimedia and also stage star parties as a result.

All of the above has come about as a result of our push for new ideas and to try new things. We are seeing such success and we hope to keep building and pushing knowledge. Read More!