Category: News

  • School Space Race on the Institute of Physics Blog

    “Tim, when you are in space and you take your clothes off before you go to bed… how do you stop them floating away?” asked a teenage schoolgirl from Norfolk. Read the full article here.

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  • School Space Race – Ethiopian Launch

    Video showing still images from the Ethiopia launch on the 18th of June will follow. Below is the exciting moment of launch: The two schools in Ethiopia had to overcome considerably more administrative hurdles than schools in the both the UK and SA. It is a testimony to the staff at the schools and Rainbows 4 […]

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  • School Space Race – UK Launch

    Video showing still images from the UK launch on the 4th of May: Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form, Reepham and Flegg High managed to recover their payload the same day. Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form’s payload reached an incredible 33km! Luckily a dog walker and a friendly farmer found the payloads of Norwich School and […]

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  • Bricileaks No.12 – Protec take the lead in the SSR

    Bricileaks No. 12 The much anticipated Yellobric School Space Race is finally underway with our first three launches in South Africa in January this year. Make sure you watch our launch video. Despite losing their space balloon again our partners Imagine Scholar see two more students attain collage sponsorship – a fantastic achievement. School Space Race […]

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  • School Space Race – South African Launch

    If you didn’t follow the South African School Space Race launch live you can watch this video which show the excitement of students who designed and launched their craft into near space: So what happened to the payloads? One we believe wasn’t insulated properly as we lost signal and the last internal temp reading was -16°C!! One […]

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  • SCHOOL SPACERACE

    CALL TO SPACE – applications to enter the School SpaceRace for 2016 are now open. CONTACT US TO TAKE PART! “There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world .” Carl Sagan in Time magazine, 9 January 1995. In 2015 Yellobric, in conjunction with Imagine Scholar (South […]

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  • Guardian Podcast

    YELLOBRIC FEATURED IN GUARDIAN PODCAST. The opportunity for technology to be a force for innovation, education and change in the developing world has been widely acknowledged, with digital tools now recognised for their positive effects on children’s lives across the globe. However, it’s vital that organisations providing these tools ensure that the right type of product, be it […]

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