{"id":3376,"date":"2013-07-13T14:38:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T14:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2013-07-15T01:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T01:11:28","slug":"spacekate-competes-in-the-lynx-space-academy-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3376","title":{"rendered":"SpaceKate competes in the Lynx Space Academy competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceKate\" target=\"_d\">SpaceKate<\/a> is competing this weekend in the <a href=\"http:\/\/secure.lsa.lynxeffect.com\/lsalive\/\" target=\"_d\">Lynx LSA Live<\/a> at Westfield White City, London.\u00a0 Those who pass this level will go to Florida to compete at the \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/codes.axeapollo.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Axe Apollo Space Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year she won a campaign to convince Unilever to let women compete equally in the Axe Lynx contest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spacekate.com\/2013\/hey-lynx-apollo-women-are-astronauts-too\/\" target=\"_d\">Hey Lynx Apollo! Women are astronauts too \u2013 On a Mission &#8211; Jan.28.13 <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spacekate.com\/2013\/the-time-we-took-on-unliever-and-won\/\" target=\"_d\">The time we took on Unilever \u2013 and won! \u2013 On a Mission &#8211; Feb.8.13<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(You may remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLGUh2PEjFCoEGgmBYe_ENwoR9uMEKTptZ\" target=\"_blank\">all those Axe Apollo commercials<\/a> where the girl rescued by a firefighter,\u00a0 lifeguard, etc goes instead for the guy in the spacesuit.)<\/p>\n<p>SpaceKate was one of the 250 people out of a many thousands of entries selected in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynxeffect.com\/article\/detail\/374175\/the-national-challenge\" target=\"_d\">The National Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She is reporting on her experiences at the Lynx LSA Live event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spacekate.com\/2013\/lynx-space-academy-stage-two\/\" target=\"_d\">Lynx Space Academy: Stage Two \u2013 On a Mission<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceKate\" target=\"_d\">Kate AG (SpaceKate) on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The competition is being live webcast:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DC8Td6oSi-U\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The latest from Kate: <a href=\"http:\/\/spacekate.com\/2013\/the-lynx-effect\/\" target=\"_d\">The Lynx Effect? \u2013 On a Mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceKate is competing this weekend in the Lynx LSA Live at Westfield White City, London.\u00a0 Those who pass this level will go to Florida to compete at the \u00a0Axe Apollo Space Academy. Earlier this year she won a campaign to convince Unilever to let women compete equally in the Axe Lynx contest: Hey Lynx Apollo! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SpaceKate competes in the Lynx Space Academy competition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Ss","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7711,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7711","url_meta":{"origin":3376,"position":0},"title":"Payload Carrier for small experiments ready for XCOR Lynx flight test","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from Citizens in Space: New Space Research Platform Ready For Flight Test Lynx Cub Payload Carrier Developed at Texas A&M College Station, Texas (May 7, 2013) \u2013 The United States Rocket Academy announced the delivery of the first Lynx Cub Payload Carrier, a new research platform which promises\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=22"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lynx Cub Payload Carrier (artist's concept)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.citizensinspace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Cub-Ext-Web-Blue.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7735,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7735","url_meta":{"origin":3376,"position":1},"title":"Citizens in Space at MakerCon to debut space experiment carrier for XCOR Lynx","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a\u00a0follow-up to the recent news\u00a0from Citizens in Space\u00a0about their newly developed experiment payload rack for the XCOR Lynx: New Space Research Platform Will Be Unveiled at MakerCon Redwood City, CA (May 8, 2013) \u2013 A new research platform that promises to dramatically reduce the cost of access to space\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=22"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3641,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3641","url_meta":{"origin":3376,"position":2},"title":"Citizens in Space selects Greg Kennedy as astronaut candidate","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from Citizens in Space: Greg Kennedy Joins Citizen Astronaut Corps Citizens in Space, a project of the United States Rocket Academy, has announced the selection of its fifth citizen-astronaut candidate. 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