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Aims of the Trust
The Dill Faulkes Educational Trust supports educational programmes that seek to inspire young people.
The trust is currently funding the projects described below.
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The Faulkes Telescope Project |
The Faulkes telescope project will put two large astronomical
telescopes on the island of Maui in Hawaii and at Siding Spring in Australia. These
telescopes will be available via the Internet to schools in UK, Hawaii and Australia
to allow 'live' astronomical observing direct from the classroom. The first telescope
is already installed on the mountain of Haleakala in Hawaii and will be operational
in early 2004.
For more information see the Faulkes Telescope Project web site. Information for schools
in the USA is available via the University of Hawaii project web site and for schools in
Australia via the Australian Project Web site.
Some more information on the Faulkes telescope project is contained in this article.
The Trust has provided most of the capital funding required for the project.
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Faulkes Mathematics Projects
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- The Faulkes Institute for Geometry
In the repertoire of modern mathematics, the subject of Geometry still occupies a
central key position. Geometrical thinking dominates a great deal of creative
mathematical research, in which a new theory begins with an intuitive visual idea,
about the placement of objects in space, that is then transformed into a rigorous
logical argument.
The Trust is supporting the Faulkes Institute for Geometry, now being built as part
of the University of Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences, in Cambridge, UK.
The vibrant geometrical activity within the Institute will interact with the Mathematics
Millennium Project, situated within in the Centre for Mathematical Science, to help
encourage the teaching and learning of basic Geometry in British schools.
The Trust, together with support from Mr Nick Corfield, has funded the construction
of the Institute for Geometry. The Trust is one of a distinguished list of
benefactors to the Centre.
Images of the opening of the Faulkes Institute for Geometry on the 1st May 2002
can be seen here.
The aerial picture left of the whole site was taken by Dill Faulkes from one of
the aeroplanes of the Faulkes Flying Foundation.
- The Faulkes Gatehouse
The Trust has made a donation to the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
to finance construction of the Faulkes Gatehouse on the Clarkson Road Site in Cambridge, UK.
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The Faulkes Flying Foundation
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The aim of the Faulkes Flying Foundation is to use the sport of Gliding to inspire
& develop young people's imagination, character and self determination with the
excitement and possibilities of flight as a lifelong adventure and a fulfilling
career prospect.
The Foundation is establishing bases at Dunstable (near Luton in Bedfordshire),
Midland Gliding Club (Long Mynd, Shropshire) and Cambridge Gliding Club as well
as at Rufford, York and Nympsfield (near Stroud). to allows schools and other
groups to experience 'taster days', residential courses or adventure training.
The Trust has provided start-up funding for the Faulkes Flying Foundation.
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The Knowl Hill IT Project (KHITE)
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The Knowl Hill School is a co-educational school for children between the ages of
7 and 16, founded in 1984 to teach children with specific learning difficulties
(dyslexia).
The school has found that its students' learning is greatly assisted by having
access to computers. The Trust has paid for the installation of the Knowl Hill
IT project (KHITE) which has given every student and teacher at the school their
own laptop computer.
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Information
If you think your educational programme would be of interest to the Trust please send details to info@faulkes.com
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