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Graduation 2016 at Robert Thirsk High School

May 22, 2016May 26, 2016 R. Thirsk Leave a comment Education

I participated on May 19 in the graduation ceremony for the 2016 class of Robert Thirsk High School. What a joy that was! It was the second graduation for the school which has now been open for three years and has grown to 1400 ‘Comets’. Amazing. The ceremony was especially memorable since this morning’s graduands were the […]

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Elevator Pitch: What has space brought us?

August 24, 2015August 24, 2015 R. Thirsk Leave a comment Education, Space Exploration

I mentioned in my June 22 blog entry that I had delivered a lecture entitled ‘What has space brought us?’ to the participants attending the summer session of International Space University. At the end of the lecture, I encouraged each student to prepare and practice a brief ‘elevator pitch’ to highlight a few benefits of the […]

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