April 5th, 2007
London kids needed
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From the BAA
The BBC-2 Culture Show have just contacted the BAA to ask us to help
with a proposed dark-sky observing project in Norfolk. In particular they
would like to get in touch with young people in the 14-16 age range who live
in the Greater London region and invite them to a star party being held at
Kelling Heath, Norfolk on Friday, April 13 - Sunday, April 15 (see www.starparty.org). They are looking for 6-12 youngsters plus a few adults to help. They would arrange transport, and a pre-meeting in London is
also anticipated. The venture would depend on there being a clear sky
available over the weekend in question.
with a proposed dark-sky observing project in Norfolk. In particular they
would like to get in touch with young people in the 14-16 age range who live
in the Greater London region and invite them to a star party being held at
Kelling Heath, Norfolk on Friday, April 13 - Sunday, April 15 (see www.starparty.org). They are looking for 6-12 youngsters plus a few adults to help. They would arrange transport, and a pre-meeting in London is
also anticipated. The venture would depend on there being a clear sky
available over the weekend in question.
The idea behind this is to enable schoolchildren studying for GCSE or
similar, who live in badly light-polluted parts of London to get the
chance to see a really dark sky with its associated celestial splendours. It
would be filmed as one of the items for the Culture Show, which is broadcast
on Saturdays around 7pm.
If you are in this age group and are interested, or are a parent of a
child interested in Astronomy and who would like to be involved in the
programme,then please send an e-mail to me with some details so that we can
collate the response and forward this to the BBC. My e-mail address is:
Time is short and so, if you can help, do please treat this request as
a matter of urgency - thank you,
Richard Miles
President
on April 12th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Well . . . I tried, but I’ve just found out you need to be a “registered chaperone” or something.
But they’re still looking (so presumably desperate) - so if you are that, go for it, folks. It’ll be like World War II when evacuated kids were seeing cows for the first time.