Big Plans for 2012

We have been working very hard over the last few months in order to put in place some very exciting projects for the new year and now, after much deliberation and effort we are finally able to go ahead and announce them here. We have two coming up and they are huge.

Wish Upon A Star

This project is great. We are working with the University of Central Lancashire to produce a book. This is a sort of pseudo-sequel to one of their previous projects, Letters to Africa. Below is a promotional video about that project:



You can see that this was a tremendously powerful project, and the book is still available to buy as well.

This time, rather than exchanging letters, the children who get involved with this will exchange either a constellation, a star or some other astronomical object and the book produced at the end will be a sort of chronicle of the exchange process. The other difference is that rather than Africa, UCLan and Beauty In The Universe will fly out to India this time.

This is a tremendous project and we hope that, if you are from a UK school you will get involved. The official website will be up very shortly at www.wishuponastarproject.co.uk.

24 Hour Bottle Rocket Challenge

This is a very exciting project for us to be involved in. The background to this is the NASA Hi-C mission, an experimental spacecraft which will launch next year and which will photograph the Sun at a higher resolution than ever before. To commemorate this we are working with UCLan and NASA to see as many bottle rockets launched in 24 hours as possible. We will be developing learning materials and promoting this in schools to get as many involved as possible.

Very soon I will be able to direct you to the official website for this project.

2012 is set to be a very exciting year for us. Hope you come along for the ride!