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ROCKET KIDS SHOW LIFT OFF

Broadcast live today, April 24th, a lad in Leeds will aim higher than high when he starts the countdown to launch a dynamite powered space rocket into the clouds hoping it will land in his garden.

But, what chance given that the rocket will be taking off from the window of a third floor bedroom in a Paddington terraced house in London?

Tune in at 4pm for the first full broadcast of the Rocket Kids Show featuring:

Matt Hancock former Minister of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Dr Action Jackson – motivational speaker, musician and education consultant

Mulumba Tshikuka – painter and STEAM Co. Artist in Residence, aka Dr Spin

Jimmy Rotheram – innovative music teacher from Bradford recently shortlisted for the $1m Global Teacher Prize

Professor Martin Rees, Baron Lord of Ludlow – Astronomer Royal

Ed Finch – a ukulele playing, storytelling father and teacher from Oxford

Leanne/Rowan – a mother and son joining from the Seacroft Estate in Leeds to open their #RocketKidsClub #CreativityCrisis box 

Chris Dyson HT – the charismatic head teacher of Parklands Primary

Dennis Kambeitz – direct from EZ Robots in Canada with the latest generation of humanoid robots designed to inspire kids

Nile Rodgers – musician and philanthropist

Keith Violette – a dad and aerospace engineer

Plus, guest of honour Homer Hickam - the man who wrote a book that has powered this whole journey and which Nick's dad found in the Oxfam book shop his dad volunteers in in Ludlow in Shropshire

Don’t miss this historical lift off moment, live from CAPE COLLABORATION!

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The RocketKids CLub Launch Week

We're doing what we can to help both Schools, Parents and Other Creative Carers with a launch week for our in and after school

The kids might like it too!

It's to help all our kids #AimHigherThanHigh

We're doing a weekly live show after school on Fridays and launching a safe online community for kids and creative carers to be Inspired, Create and Share on.

(We need 100 test pilots for that to go for a fly this Friday

We're doing Pop-Up Shows 10-10.30 and 2- 2.30pm Tues to Weds to help schools who are looking after vulnerable kids and those of carers - also for kids at home.

And a blow out session on #FunDayFriday from Leeds

Here's what we're doing and what you'll need:

  • Tues 21st - #World Creativity Day (Sheet of paper)

  • Weds 22nd - #World Box Day (Cardboard box/scissors/tape)

  • Thurs 23rd - #UK Art of Loos Rolls Day (Loo Roll, card, paint, crayons, gluestick, scissors)

  • Fri 24th - #RocketKids Launch Day - Just bring yourselves

We're planning an amazing launch show 4-6pm this Friday for our #RocketKids Club with a very special guest Homer Hickam, the author of the Rocket Boys that has inspired so much of our journey.

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LIFT OFF… WELL, SORT OF

There’s another old saying “The plane took off before we’d finished building it”.

It refers to people who aim high in life, who are ambitious, but there’s never enough time to finish things because you can always tweak this and polish that, and try something different in that hole.

If you need to go some where, far, high you’ll probably need to fly so you’ll need a plane and maybe have to build one.

(While you’re here, have a look at the first 10 seconds of the film over there that we made to look back at our #ARTCONNECTS19 year and ahead to this, our #COLLABORATE20 year.

To get that proverbial plane off the ground, it will need a few basic things - like a propeller, a few wings and it’s nice if the pilot has a seat but everyone else can sit on the floor.

Better still they could take some tools and make themselves a seat, and floor, and walls and a luggage locker!

Well the Rocket Kids Club is a bit like that.

We know here we want to go - somewhere where kids and creative carers can hang out, be inspired, make things and share them, and be inspired and go round the creative loop again.

And we have a rough idea of how to get there, but we want to build it with you ,in the spirit both of our #COLLABORATE20 year but also the Co. in STEAM Co. which stands for Collaboration (as well as many other words yo care to mention starting with Co!)

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LAUNCH DAY - FRi 24th APRIL

We announced the #RocketKidsClub with a whole day of activities on Friday 3rd April, Day 3 of the #CoFight19 campaign to fight the fear and fight back against the virus.

And what better way than with our art. See the film above of our launch which was on BBC Breakfast on the 1st April (or was it?)

We broadcasted live and direct all day to our YouTube Channel from our #CommunityLockIn

We did another #ARTofFUNDAYFRIDAY Special Show live from Parklands Primary in Leeds on Friday 10th April

OUR FIRST TEST SHOW

Our first test show on 3rd April consisted of a whole load of talks, activities, competitions and freebies. It was a programme of 60 minute segments with a 15 minute break at the end to catch up and grab a cuppa.

10.00 Introduction to the Day, Art and Creativity and learning together and #ARTofPLAY - Lego activity with David Pallash of Lego

11.00 #ARTofCODE - coding BBC MicroBits

12.00 #ARTofDESIGN - designing #ILOVEART T-shirts. Best ten will get printed as T-shirts and sent out

13.00 Lunch

14.00 #ARTofROCKETS - how Elton John and Homer Hickam changed a life. Win one of 6 copies of the #RocketStoriesBook and the launch of #RocketKidsClub

15.00 #ARTofDRAWING - a look at the work of Keith Haring as recently seen at Tate Liverpool.

16.00 The #ARTofCARDBOARD - workshop with Paul Carney from Sunderland and special guests appearance from LA by Caine from the Global Cardboard Challenge and Caines Arcade Story.

17.00 #ARTofROBOTS - coding three types of Robot and launch of competition to win a £500 robot 

18.00 #ARTofUKULELE - global singalong to end the day with Ed Finch and Rae Snape on Ukes

To get us in the mood, here’s our singalong with Elton - a film about the ‘Greatest Gift’

WHAT DO WE WANT OF THE ROCKET KIDS CLUB?

We want to build a online community together, that shows we are better together and have more in common, that is:

  • SAFE - where everyone is there for the right reasons, knows how to behave and understands why they’ve been asked to step outside for chat and understands our ‘no quibble rule’.

  • INSPIRING - where the most exciting, original and creative thinking and doing will be seen and shared.

  • SHARING - where we will all make and do things, to show and share with others to build on for the common good.

  • CARING - where we all care, care about what we do, make and think, and what others do, make and think.

  • INCLUSIVE - where everyone is equal, regardless of where they come from, live or go to school, eat ,think, like or love. We aren’t about politics but are about policy and will criticise anyone who doesn’t share our vision and values around creativity, children and all our futures.

  • PROTECTIVE - in the way we would when we’re out and about, we look out for each other and each other’s kids. We keep them on the straight and narrow and tell them if they’re not and certainly step in if others try to wobble them off the line. No quibble.