Anniversary Celebrations at St. Johns College, Cambridge
Fifty years after the successful completion of the Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition (TAE) on 2nd March 1958 and a hundred years after Sir Vivian Fuchs's birth on 11th February 1908, family, friends, supporters, and Fuchs Scholars will celebrate with a fundraising dinner at St. John’s College, Cambridge.
In recognition of Fuchs's achievements and this anniversary, the Fuchs Foundation, started by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists in the 1970s to mark his retirement as its first Director, refocused the charity's aims in 2005 to concentrate on education. During TAE Sir Vivian Fuchs showed a generation of school children a sense of curiosity, self reliance, self determination and challenge and in his memory the Fuchs Foundation want to inspire future generations by sending young teachers to the Polar Regions to do scientific projects in hostile environments.
The first Fuchs Foundation Antarctic Expedition took place in November 2007 and the four teachers will present their findings and experiences on the afternoon of March 1st at the Scott Polar Research Institute.
The teachers will further spread their knowledge and experience by producing teaching resources which will be available on www.fuchsfoundation.org at the end of March which will coincide with the screening by Teachers TV of the project.
For more information about the Fuchs Foundation, please contact Ann Fuchs on 01455 202370 / 07774903349 ann@fuchsfoundation.org.
To find out more about Teachers TV, please contact Isobel Bradshaw or Natalie Orringe on 020 7400 4480/ ttv@hanovercomms.com
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