{"id":331,"date":"2026-05-15T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/?p=331"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:50:03","slug":"blog-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/2026\/05\/15\/blog-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Space Race<\/h3>\n<p>We were learning about the Space Race in the 1960s. We had been designing 2 stage rockets in TinkerCAD and with LEGO. Now it was time to try and get some payload (paperclips) into a moon orbit using balloons as our source of thrust. We used our growth mindset, learning from mistakes and a good amount of Teamwork Makes the Dream Work skills and reached the moon (well, the ones stuck to the ceiling)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-331-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"843\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/ewhcfp4b202526\/uploads\/sites\/18744\/2026\/05\/15084546\/VID-20260515-WA0000.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/ewhcfp4b202526\/uploads\/sites\/18744\/2026\/05\/15084546\/VID-20260515-WA0000.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/ewhcfp4b202526\/uploads\/sites\/18744\/2026\/05\/15084546\/VID-20260515-WA0000.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Race We were learning about the Space Race in the 1960s. We had been designing 2 stage rockets in TinkerCAD and with LEGO. Now it was time to try and get some payload (paperclips) into a moon orbit using balloons as our source of thrust. We used our growth mindset, learning from mistakes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/2026\/05\/15\/blog-27\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/ewhcfp4b202526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}