We arrived last night and after settling in to our rooms and meeting new people we met for an introductory talk from Gordon McVie. He welcomed us all and briefed us on the week to come. We each received personal badges, folders of the information of the week (which is huge!) and were allocated into our specific teams and mentors . We then had a lovely dinner at Lord Todd's diner and then had a quiz night. It was lots of fun and allowed us all to really get to know our seperate groups and work together in a team. In the end Black Arrow came third and considering their are twelve teams I think we did pretty well.

Up bright and early for breakfast and the first lecture at 8:30. The lecture was by Professor Colin McInnes of Mechanical Engineering here at Strathclyde University. The lecture focussed on orbital mechanics and rocket construction which was very interesting with many questions from pupils about the new technology being developed for more efficient space travel. These included: Solar electrical, solar sail, nuclear fusion and fission, air breathing rockets and hydrogen engines. We then had a brief description of how to build a model rocket received our equipment and set to work. After sending a fellow team member around Glasgow for paint to decorate our rocket and building the basic framework we went for lunch at Lord Todd's. Afterwards we topok part in a Multi-Cultured Swab shop in one of the science labs at the university. This focussed on the bacteria on your skin and how small micro-organisms really are. We took swabs of our skin and they are going to be incubated to find out what sort of bacteria lives on our skin. After the workshop we returned to our model rockets, completing their design and set up. Later we are going to Loch Lomond to fire our rockets in a competition for the most accurate flight and a barbeque.

Over and out. Black Arrow.