It’s one of the most inspriing stories- how a lad who read 3 books a day, apparently every book in the school library, had a dream.

Of taking the human race to space, to Mars

He had the knowledge, he needed some skills, so he learned to code, helped launch PayPay.

He sold his shares to launch a solar panel company, an electric car company and a starship company that has flown over 100 space missions with reusable rockets.

Love or loath Elon Musk (we don’t do either), you can’t deny it’s an inspiring story and one of several we’ve been telling kids on our UK tours.

Now the next chapter is about to unfold… join us

A blog that shows how naïve it can be to think that education isn’t political and how effective deliberately divisive policies are proving to be in dividing us at a time when we should all be finding common ground and coming together.

And I should know – today The Guardian misfiled, misrepresented and misquoted me when publishing a letter I’d written to them in Mr Angry mode (they’ve since issued a full apology and corrected it) and I’m still reeling from losing the support of a good friend and a few good people this week for giving them the wrong sandwich.

But who cares?

We had a fantastic day with one of our ‘Mission to Mars’ sessions at St Issey School, just down the road from Padstow in Cornwall, helping to launch #Cornwall22 as part of our #Ignite22 Festival Year

Launching a campaign to Start a Creativity Revolution.

We had a fantastic day launching our campaign to inspire a million kids with one of our ‘Mission to Mars’ sessions at St Lawrence Primary in Church Stretton in the shadow of the stunning Shropshire Hills.

We’ve been pleased to support the annual STEAM Day at thsi Camden School for the last three years, where they park the time table and offer students a range of creative sessions and talks,

WHat a day we had.