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This June LiketoBe.org's very own Antony Jinman is heading on an expedition to Svalbard!

Join us on our LikeToBe page to follow this next adventure as we learn all about the history, environment, and wildlife of the Arctic. You can expect daily Timeline posts focusing on different topics each day, videos sent from Antony as he navigates ice caves, old mining towns, and maybe an encounter with a Polar Bear or two! We will also be having webinars & a place where you can directly ask Antony questions whilst he’s out in the Arctic, it’s one you won’t want to miss!

With the success of the flags from our last expedition to Antarctica, we will once again be taking flags to the Arctic with us with school logos on. Please email [email protected] if you would like to get your school involved.

We hope to see you in June!

Can you help us kit out The Climate Hub?

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🪑 🛋 🖼 🏺 🛠 🕯 📷 🖥 Next week we will be welcoming the community in, and we need your help to turn the old Waterstones into a warm, welcoming, engaging and fun place to be 🖨 📹 🍽 ☕️ 🌱 🌵 🌳 🐚

Let us know if you can support us to make it happen 🙏😍

At our welcome home virtual event for Antarctic Quest 21 last month, a student from 4G asked our explorers ‘do you think they will ever find the Endurance ship?’ The answer? ‘I doubt it! It’s a very difficult find, it would be amazing if they do, but it’s going to be a difficult one to accomplish.’

Just like the heroic age of Polar Exploration, the impossible has been made possible.

What a fantastic day in our history, 107 years after Shackleton’s ship sank it has finally been found on the centenary anniversary of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s funeral.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60662541

Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic What was one of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks is identified on the Antarctic seafloor.

It’s time to take climate action with your students!

We can all make a meaningful difference in our classrooms by simply integrating climate education into our lessons.

This is why LikeToBe has teamed up with Twin Science and Verofax Limited to create unique and interactive educational resources on the Twin App, using footage by Polar Explorer Jinman during his expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic, including Antarctic Quest 21

On the Twin app, children will be inspired to discuss climate solutions with like-minded peers on safe & moderated forums, ask questions directly to Antony, play climate change trivia and elevate their STEM knowledge with interactive videos.

We wanted to offer a special code just for our community so that you can become a Digital or Premium member with a 50% discount. You can save up to £120 by signing up for an annual premium membership!

Follow these 4 easy steps below to start the adventure with your students:

Step 1: Go to https://www.twinscience.com/ to create your account and subscribe.

Step 2: Choose your plan while signing up

Step 3: Enter LIKETOBE50 Code during checkout

Step 4: Download the Twin app & Begin the exploration!

Let’s continue the learning adventure & take climate action together!

Thanks so much for taking part Widey Court Primary School!

Children at Widey Court Primary School have recently been a part of a pioneering scientific research expedition to Antarctica, in commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
The school logo was on a flag that was carried by the team for the duration of the expedition, and which was flown in Antarctica during the Shackleton memorial service, which was then broadcast on ITV and BBC news.
Can you spot our school logo in the photo below? 📸
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Antarctic Quest 21

This week is National Apprenticeship Week and we’re excited to announce that Industries UK have launched their new Scheme in partnership with Outsource UK Ltd!

Aggregate Industries UK are at the frontline of the construction and infrastructure industries, producing and supplying an array of construction materials. With over 200 sites and around 3,700 dedicated employees, they’re home to everything from aggregates, asphalt, ready-mixed concrete and precast concrete products. On top of that, they produce, import and supply construction materials, export aggregates and offer national road surfacing and contracting services.

The new apprenticeship program will be a mix of classroom learning and onsite, live experience, they’ll help you develop the skills that will provide you with a solid basis for your future career. They currently have over 150 apprentices and graduates, working towards their career goals and achieving great success.

Health and Safety is their overarching value and they promote a workplace that is safe, healthy, diverse, inclusive and respectful. They champion diversity and want to promote equality and diversity.

Head over to their LikeToBe.org page and take a look at their apprenticeship opportunities on the 'Jobs' tab!

https://www.liketobe.org/organisations/apprenticeshipopportunities20221/profile

The expedition may be over, but the science has only just begun. Antarctic Quest 21 expedition Scientific Advisor Dr Charlotte Braungardt writes:

"In his concluding situation report, Paul leaves it to others to judge whether Antarctic Quest 21 was a successful expedition.

I'll try to provide him with an answer for his Priority 3: Science."

The Science Has Only Just Started - Antarctic Quest 21 n report, Paul leaves it to others to judge whether Antarctic Quest 21 was a successful expedition. I'll try to provide him with an answer for his Priority 3: Science.

Antony Jinman is back in the UK, and Paul Hart has written the final Situation Report of the Antarctic Quest 21 expedition. Everyone is safe, healthy and happy 😊

We have loads of videos to share and stories to tell so keep following, but in the mean time be sure to read Paul's report.

The Final Situation Report - Antarctic Quest 21 Expedition Leader Paul Hart shares the final Situation Report of the expedition, from Buenos Aires, Argentina Situation Update 20 January 2022 Location: Buenos Aires and Travelling to home destinations “Situation: […]

And that's a wrap!

We're very happy to announce that the expedition team is now safely back in Argentina after a very challenging month on Antarctica.

For the past week the team have been battling against the logistics of getting back to Ushuaia safely. They up against the various challenges of getting themselves and their equipment safely back to Portal Point, as yet more fierce storms were forecast and, to top things off, new Covid regulations had been introduced in Argentina which had complicated their extraction plans.

Here is Expedition Leader Paul Hart with a heartfelt update:

"Today, with great sadness, we stepped off Antarctica and on to the vessel Minerva which will carry us back to Ushuaia in Argentina.

While we are delighted and hugely grateful to Swan Hellenic, the operators of this amazing vessel the Minerva, for coming to our assistance and helping us find passage back to Ushuaia, leaving Antarctica is a little losing part of your soul.

Having spent 5 weeks on the white continent, this amazing and unique environment has worked its way into our hearts and souls. Despite all the battles with the weather and the terrain, it’s simply true that Antarctica is bewitching and gains a hold on you. It’s for this very reason we came down here, to do work that will help us protect and preserve this wonderful environment and, hopefully, the wider world.

We are now on our way back to civilisation but our minds remain also rooted in Antarctica. We thank all of you who have followed us for your support, help and assistance. We hope that by following us you’ve been informed, inspired and given an insight into the journey we’ve undertaken, not just over the past weeks but also in the four years of planning and preparation it’s taken to bring us here.

Thank you and we will continue to post information regarding our science and anything else relevant to our Antarctica experience.

Here’s to our next Antarctic science expedition."

Much more to come soon.

In the mean time, we really can't say thank you enough to all the expedition partners and sponsors, including:

The AST Group NAAFI1920 Team Army Clean Planet Energy Elliot Brown Watches The Ulysses Trust Costain Group BetterYou Klättermusen Polar Latitudes Expedition Base Camp Martin Holland Emily Whitehead Planet Nudie Snacks The Britannia Association ohso chocolate The Ludlow Nut Company The Gift of Oil Raging Bull The Oink Company Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Fjellpulken Expedition Foods Twin Science Verofax Limited