At the end of October, a group of amateur British space enthusiasts launched a paper plane into space by attaching it to a helium balloon. The plane managed to stay in tack and landed only 100 miles away from where it was released. The project was code named PARIS -Paper Aircraft Released Into Space.
The paper plane must not be mistaken for a protest paper plane, the type that Green Thing launched off a roof in Covent Garden a while back.
Those planes landed within 100 meters of where they were launched.
(Spotted on the BBC)
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
