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LAND ROVER BAR OPEN THE TECH DECK

Today, Sir Ben Ainslie’s British America’s Cup Challenger, Land Rover BAR, hosted a visit at their Portsmouth home from Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cambridge - the Royal Patron of their official charity, the 1851 Trust. The Duchess joined Land Rover BAR Team Principal and Skipper Sir Ben Ainslie and Sir Keith Mills, Chairman of the 1851 Trust, to conduct the official opening of the team’s interactive ‘Tech Deck’ Education Centre.

The ‘Tech Deck’ is unusual amongst educational resource centres as it is based at the home of a working professional sports team. Developed for Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum, the aim is to foster and ignite young people’s interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) and aims to inspire students to continue on to careers in these essential fields.

Ben Ainslie said: “It was fantastic to take our Royal Patron on-board T1 during our training session on the Solent today. We gave her the helm and we were flying along at 33 knots, out on the ACWS Portsmouth race course, you can tell she has done a lot of sailing, she was a natural on-board."