Celebration of Engineering – Trip to the toon!

In recent weeks we’ve made great steps forward with Max the robot, resulting in the delivery of school lunch (and celebratory ice cream) from the shop to the school. A real success story! See delivery video below where Max delivers food in ‘self-driving’ mode with no human support. The perfect chance to show Max came at a Celebration of Engineering event in Kirkwall last week. We had a great day

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Papay Visitor Book Box Advert!

Our six visitor book boxes are now all in place and are ready to be visited. We’ve already had to top up the stickers in quite a few of the boxes due to so many visitors. The most popular box so far has been the original, at the Knap of Howar, where we enjoyed reading the messages the other day. In the months ahead ahead we plan to produce and

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Our Trip on the Swan

A week or so ago we had a wonderful trip on the Swan. The Swan is a former herring fishing boat which now offers sail training and experiences. We enjoyed a day aboard with North Ronaldsay School. An article published through OIC updates, reproduced below, gives a feel for our day aboard. Yo Ho – A Pirate’s Life for Orkney pupils on board the Swan! https://www.orkney.gov.uk/News?postid=5853 A crew of young

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