I mentioned our plans to ride in a Kiruna dogsled, but didn’t say enough about Sweden’s space high school. Sverker Fredriksson told us:
It has national recruitment, and VERY good pupils. Many of them come from southern
Sweden, 2000 km away. It takes real enthusiam to move that far from their
parents at the age of 16, in order to study space for three years.
I just got some interesting blog-email with more information and links to photos:
Odd Minde [1] sent this email to you through Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar? [2] regarding this page [3].
Hello! I found on Web in your Nobel-blogging: “…Finally some news: Ingrid Sandahl [physicist and expert on auroras] is a great person, who knows almost everyone in Kiruna. She has arranged a dog sled for you on Thursday evening, after our visit to the Space High-School…..”
Here you have a picture of that Space High-School. The name of the school: Rymdgymnasiet in Kirun. Our astronomical observatory is named Bengt Hultquist observatory. Picture you find here:
http://www.malmgruppen.com/t1pubhttpdocs/temp/282422793974968_BHO_mini.jpg
Odd Minde
Project Manager
Teacher
[1] http://w1.171.telia.com/~u17106184/skolan.JPG
[2] http://BetsyDevine.weblogger.com/
[3] http://betsydevine.weblogger.com/
Thanks to Odd Minde for letting me share this email!