Antony is now about to embark on MS Hebridean Sky (One of the Finest Small Ships in the World) as a guest lecturer, and will be venturing down to the continent once again this December and January. This time, he’ll be exploring the coastline of Antarctica and running an interactive program for schools via his website LiketoBe.org. He is inviting teachers and schools to sign up for free, so that pupils and teachers alike can share in his adventure and, hopefully, join him as he fulfils his goal of seeing a penguin in real life standing on some ice!

Penguin facts:

Of the 18 species of penguin in the world, only 6 live in the Antarctic. These are: emperors, kings, gentoos, Adelies, macaronis and chinstraps. Of these, only Adelies and emperor penguins rely entirely on ice to breed.

Gentoos are the fastest penguin and have been recorded swimming at speeds of more than 20mph!

Penguins are black and white to help camouflage them from predators in the water. From above, their black backs blend into the dark sea and, from below, their white underside matches the sunlight shining through the water surface.

Chicks can’t go in the water because they don’t have waterproof feathers – their downy feathers all moult before they fully fledge the colony and start swimming with the adults.

Hello, my name is Antony Jinman and as you can see from my website, I am the 12th Briton to have skied to the Geographic North Pole and solo to the Geographic South Pole. In 2009, I founded a social enterprise called Education Through Expeditions, which delivers school visits and polar science workshops. My team and I have now visited over 800 schools internationally, but wanted to do more. During my early adventures, I realised that I could connect to schools using a satellite phone and built a website allowing pupils to ask questions directly to me via that satellite phone. But still I wanted to do more, and realised that the expeditions could be used as a catalyst to link polar experts (scientists and educators) on the same website with schools. When I last journeyed to Antarctica in 2016, schools were asking me questions to my .. iphone! I suddenly released that I could link any professional person with teachers in a similar way. So, I have built and developed a website called www.LiketoBe.org

LiketoBe is a dedicated networking platform, specifically for educators to connect with business, industry, and professional people. In order to help scale our service and build a new team to market our service to both schools and businesses, I need to raise some investment and so I am releasing equity in the business and am inviting people to buy a share or two. Interested? Well please continue reading ..

I believe that the biggest barrier to young people’s aspirations, is the lack of knowledge and understanding of what career opportunities there are. Pupils, largely depend on parents or teachers for career inspiration, who may themselves lack business or industry experience.

83% of UK schools do not employee career guidance staff, resulting in 70% of young people leaving education with no idea of what they want to do.

Various employment sectors face skills shortages and retention issues, but employers simply do not have the time to send employees visiting schools.

LiketoBe is a digital solution, that enables teachers and parents to quickly and efficiently, build networks of professional people and employers, helping young people find their aspirations and answer the question, "When I leave school, I'd like to be .."

This is done by businesses and employees building profiles and sharing posts, content and resources about their daily job and what the company does. Teachers can search this network and join groups and profiles, accessing current career examples.

If you would like to join our network, and share my own passion for helping to raise children’s aspirations, please visit www.LiketoBe.org

If you would also like to invest in LiketoBe and become a shareholder for as little as £15, then please visit https://www.seedrs.com/like-to-be

Thank you for your interest in my site and my next big project!

Antony

Join our School Outreach Team - Deadline 26th May 2017

Do you enjoy working with children? Are you able to work flexible hours? Do you enjoy travelling?

Then look no further!

We are currently expanding our freelance team and looking for outreach officers to deliver exciting workshops (Polar Fun Days) in schools across the UK.

Education through Expeditions (ETE) is a social enterprise which runs a Polar education outreach programme called ‘Polar Fun Days,’ in both primary and secondary schools. Since 2009 we have now visited hundreds of schools both here in the UK and internationally. We are currently looking for freelance members to join our team and would be ideally suited to people looking to develop their personal skills and cv, with an aim to pursue a career in science or education.

The ideal candidates for this position should have a passion for the Polar Regions, have experience of work or travel in the Arctic or Antarctic, from either an adventure or science background and want to share their experience with young people. This position will be ideal for a recent graduate, who has been to the Polar Regions and is willing to share their stories by public speaking and running workshops.

Training will be held in Plymouth or via Skype, candidates can live across the UK. Successful candidates will be paid a day rate for school visits conducted and claim back expenses.  

To apply please email Nabs on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.