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Home clutter can feel
ROCKET SCIENCE
Ignites
YOUNG MINDS
A new education program
is bringing rocket science to
schools, where students are
having so much fun, they barely
notice how much they are
learning!
It’s Rocket Science Adventures (IRSA)
is the brainchild of Cran and Sarah
Middlecoat, who bring hands-on STEM
learning into the classroom, making it
exciting and accessible to all.
Cran, a qualified airline transport pilot
flying the Boeing 787, has hit upon
a learning formula that is safe and
spectacular. Students are invited to
Declutter and Balance overwhelming, messy
Decluttering doesn’t mean eliminating the most prominent objects, but
and out of control
your home décor
the smaller ones! Clutter in a small space causes less overall space for
movement and feels closed in. Know that the more significant your area,
the increasing scale of advancing colour, pattern, and shape you must
have to balance it. Often this goes awry when upscaling homes and
requires correction. Decluttering your décor means removing the smaller
things, especially small wall objects in larger spaces so that they balance
the proportions and do not fight for attention with like-sized items, i.e.
cushions and ornaments.
Did you know that in decorating you must have .8 metres to 1.5 metres of
walkway space around your furniture and that your room should be two-
thirds space and one-third furniture? Wow! After an Art & Decor Planning Session
Most people clutter their interior decor with items of emotional attachment.
If you don’t use it and it does not match, give it away, put it elsewhere or
call the second-hand furniture dealer, but declutter; you will feel better!
Next, balance your space. Look around the room. Is it divisible by two
architecturally? For instance, is there a fireplace, or an entry in the middle
with two walls either side? Is your lounge suite positioned smack bang
in the middle, centered? A centred floor plan is more formal and must
be followed by placing your items the same on each side, symmetrically!
Here’s a great décor tip - multiple elements, i.e. two Fiddler Figs or vases,
will make your space look more expensive. Ooohee! Before
draw resources from the recycling bin If your space is not formally balanced, it is a casual layout
to build rockets powered by water and where you position items to feel at peace. Work with your architectural lead but remember
air pressure, that then take flight using a that artwork is the glue! Get it large, in all your décor colours and ensure it confirms what your
launch pad system invented by Cran. style and theme is. If you need help, 2 hour Art and Décor Planning Sessions with me are Free!
“The resources are in the recycling bin,”
Cran says. “The students create the Sharron Tancred is a Customised Artwork Specialist who creates art designed to fix, enhance or inspire interior design
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technology. They don’t just consume it.
They create the technology and we make
it fly.”
The day that IRSA comes to school, Additional STEM programs available
rockets are ready for take-off, the school through ISRAinclude an introductory
oval transforms into a rocket range, and drone operation course, a pathway into
students explore fair testing and practical the Australian Youth Rocketry Challenge,
investigations. and the Black Sky program: launching
drones at extreme altitudes.
The programs for K-12 are out of the
box, but tick all of the boxes: safety and “We’re trying to say, it’s not impossible,”
risk assessment, links to the ACARA Sarah says.“We’d love to inspire future
Curriculum, inclusion of students with aerospace professionals, and potentially
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