STEM Team East Opportunities for Engagement – Spring 2012: Issue 2.
Special Issue – Highlighting events during National Science and Engineering Week
STEM Team East
Hands On activities
Careers
Advice
Evaluating Material and
Developing New Activities
Ambassador
Training
Funding for your
Ambassador Work
Judging
Competitions
Supporting a
Particular School
Information
We still need your help!
It is our aim to provide every secondary school in each county with at least one STEM Ambassador experience per year. At present 63% of our Cambs. and Beds. Schools are engaging
with the scheme but we need to get as close as possible to 100% before the end of this school year. This is a key aim of the Department for Education and the Department for
Business, Innovation and Skills, the two Government bodies which finance the Ambassador programme.
Thank you to everyone who has already contacted us and offered to support particular schools. If you haven’t yet had the chance to get in touch, please do so now! Your input could
be to give talks about your work and careers in science, technology, engineering or mathematics and / or support project work and practical activities in class and during STEM Clubs.
You can even support schools remotely by reviewing student project work or through video conferencing and Skype.
We would greatly appreciate your help in bringing the benefits of the STEM Ambassador Programme to every school and therefore opportunity to every pupil.
As Ambassadors you make a fantastic contribution to the education of this generation of pupils and you inspire tomorrow’s STEM professionals who will follow in your footsteps.
Date
Location
14th March
20th March
St. Albans
Primary School
Science
Saturday
17th March
Central
Cambridge
URGENT
request for
Ambassadors
Time of
Activity
Activity Description
Number of
Ambassadors
Age of
Children
Inspire with Robotics and Light
Class size
groups of 30
7-11
15
All ages!
We are working with St Alban’s Primary school in Cambridge over science week to inspire their
pupils with STEM! We will be running our robotics activities – the jitterbot and hexapod robot
and undertaking investigations with pupils using the ‘properties of light’ kit from the Ogden
Trust. We would like ambassador support for each of these activities and further offers of IT
and systems and control activities suitable for primary school pupils.
09:30-10:45
11:00-12:15
13:00-14:15
14:30-15:45
Cambridge Science Festival STEM Team East Style
“Spinning makes the world go round!”
We aim to cover as many spinning and orbiting phenomena as we can in our 10 minute
presentation – from keeping water in a bucket, precessing protons and MRI scans to orbits and
satellite communication. Talks will be followed by a model satellite build for children aged 6+.
Contact us if you would like to be part of this wonderful event: Please let us know if you are
able to attend for the whole day or a particular session.
17th March
20th March
24th March
Central
Cambridge
09:00-17:00
17:30-23:00
11:30-17:30
Volunteer to get hands on with science
Cambridge Science Centre is looking for enthusiastic people to bring their first range of exhibits
to life at the Cambridge Science Festival. Exhibits present a variety of scientific ideas, including:
electricity generation; electric motors; light mixing; hidden light; microscope table; vertical wind
tunnel. Each exhibit will include a background sheet explaining the science and other top tips.
More details at: http://www.cambridgesciencecentre.org/exhibit-building
http://www.cambridgesciencecentre.org/the-cambridge-modular-exhibit-system-a-prototype
Science Hunt - 17th March, 09.00-17.00
Late Night Lab – 20th March, 17.30-23.00
Preview exhibits - 24th March, 11.30-17.30
If you are able to help, even for just a few hours, please email us and we will put you in touch
with the Cambridge Science Centre Coordinator. www.cambridgesciencecentre.org
Saturday 24th
March
UNI4U at Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin University’s UNI4U event gives parents and children aged between 7-11, the
opportunity to find out more about University. There will be a range of interactive activities
running and we will have a some of our hands-on activities on display. Please let us know if you
would like to support this event, talking and working with future university students.
27th March
29th March
URGENT
Request
Cottenham
Village College
09:00-12:30
From now.
Michaelhouse
Trinity Street
Cambridge
Afterschool
workshop
From now
Summer Term
2012
Manea
Community
Primary School
Cottenham Primary Feeder Days
6
10-11
Year 6 pupils from Primary Feeder Schools to Cottenham Village College will be visiting the
school on 27th and 29th March and taking part in hands-on STEM activities. Ambassadors
requested to support our hovercraft and rocket builds and work with Yr 10 students.
10-11
Adventures in Technology - East of England Faiths Council
Would you like to help 10-11 year old pupils experience the process of designing and building a
technology project.? The East of England Faiths Council want to work with Ambassadors to
develop activities for workshops in Autumn 2012 and Spring 2013. Please let us know whether
you can offer ideas for projects and whether you would like to be involved in the workshops.
Hands-on at Manea Community Primary School, March
Request for Ambassadors to run hands-on STEM activities at this small primary school in March.
If you are interested but don’t have an activity of you own, we can provide ideas and resources
for our rocket launch, jitterbot robot or bridge build.
Science Learning Centre
Request for Ambassadors to support STEM courses for teachers
21st June 2012 - NQT Conference: Bedford.
Summer 2012 - Applied Science Level 2: Work Based Science: - Cambridge.
4th July 2012 - Health throughout life, genetics, environment, diabetes
Contact [email protected] to find out more.
1
7-11
Requests for
placements
during
Summer
2012.
Summer
2012
Nuffield Research Students - available to help you and your Company.
17-18
Nuffield Students are AS level students who are funded by the Nuffield Foundation to work for
4 weeks during the summer (although an earlier time frame may be possible) with you on any
research project. The projects may be laboratory based or could be data handling and analysis
or a feasibility study. Students can be placed in any University Department or any Company and
in some cases the project may be done off site. The students are highly motivated and produce
work of excellent to outstanding quality. We monitor and support the students throughout.
The Nuffield scheme is highly regarded and runs on the basis that it is a win-win process for
both the student and host. Contact us for details and to discuss any ideas and options you have.
If you are interested in this but cannot commit to 4 weeks, we also place students for 2-3 weeks
through the British Science Association Gold CREST Awards with very similar outcomes.
Email us at [email protected]
URGENT
Deadline for
entry
11th March
Be behind the headlines!
Nominations
open 28th Feb
and close on
14th Sept.
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
British Science Association Media Fellowships – last chance to apply!
STEM Professionals can experience life in the heart of the newsroom by applying for a British
Science Association 2012 Media Fellowship. The fellowship enables you to spend 3-8 weeks this
summer working with hosts including the BBC, Guardian and Nature to produce accurate, wellinformed news about developments in science. Apply online – closing date 11 March 2012
Eligibility criteria and online application form: www.britishscienceassociation.org/mediafellows
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a global £1 million prize recognising and celebrating
outstanding advances in engineering that have changed the world. Nominations are welcomed
from the public, engineering and science academies, universities, research institutions and
companies throughout the world. More information at: http://qeprize.org
With best wishes, Elizabeth, Melanie, Lucy, Jane, Diana and Janet.
STEM Team East
Elizabeth Crilly, Director
12, Ronald Rolph Court, Wadloes Road, Cambridge, CB5 8PX.
Email [email protected] Telephone 01223 415650.
Process for recording STEM Activities
To record all activities you must log in the STEMNET Website www.stemnet.org.uk using the following details;
Select - STEM Ambassadors; Select - Log into E & E Database (top right hand corner of your screen)
Enter your email address and password that you used when registering as an Ambassador. Select Forgotten Password if you can't remember the one originally entered.
The next screen will provide the following options; - Edit and Update personal details. - Add a Single School or Multi School activity to my STEM Ambassadors record.