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Your guide to key STEM events in the region and throughout the UK.

  • 4th STEM Challenge - The Travel Challenge (launch)

    Date
    06 Sep 2010

    Can you help to reduce the carbon footprint of spectators travelling to London 2012? BP - the official oil and gas partner of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games – is challenging Key Stage 3 (or equivalent) students to make proposals for sustainable travel options at Games time. The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games present London and the UK with a huge transport challenge: approximately 8 million tickets will be on sale during the Olympic Games, with a further 2 million available for the Paralympics.  As part of making the Games sustainable, transport is an important consideration and much is being done to identify how CO2 emissions caused by transport can be greatly reduced.  Spectators will be encouraged to use public transport, walk or cycle - in fact, London 2012 would like 100% of spectators and workforce to travel to London venues by the most sustainable modes.

     

    The Challenge is to make sustainable travel plans for the journey from your school to two different Olympic and Paralympic venues.  We suggest you take approximately four weeks to complete the Challenge, ideally this would be done as a Club activity.  Your research should also be used to create a short presentation on sustainable travel.  You will need to work in teams of four to six people, and think carefully about what your team can achieve in the available time – manage your time effectively, sharing out tasks and not taking on more than can be realistically completed.

     

    Deadline for entries: Monday 1st November 2010. Judging dates: between 1st and 8th December 2010. Challenge Final: at ASE Conference, Reading, Thursday 06 January 2011

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  • Royal Society’s Partnership Grants (Autumn round opens)

    Date
    06 Sep 2010
    Website
    royalsociety.org/Partnership/

    The scheme offers up to £3000 to support teachers, scientists and engineers in working together to inspire young people.  Fantastic projects can be created by partnerships like these, allowing teachers to increase their scientific knowledge and giving scientists and engineers the chance to develop their communication skills and engage with enquiring young minds. Perhaps most importantly, these projects give school students a taste of science and engineering today, and their relevance for society. For successful applicants, the grant is awarded directly to the school, enabling the school to pay for any specialist equipment needed for the investigation, travel expenses for the scientist/engineer and/or the school group and possibly teacher supply cover.

    A dedicated team at The Royal Society supports all stages of the application process, including advising on investigations you may be considering and guidance in finding a suitable scientist/engineer partner. The Autumn round of Partnership Grants applications opens in September and the closing date is 5 November 2010.

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  • British Science Festival 2010

    Date
    14 Sep 2010 - 19 Sep 2010
    Location
    Birmingham
    Website
    www.britishscienceassociation.org/web/BritishScienceFestival/

    The British Science Festival (formerly the BA Festival of Science) is one of Europe's largest science festivals, taking place each September. The Festival is in a different location in the UK each year, bringing you the latest in science, technology and engineering.

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  • Earth Science Teachers’ Association (ESTA) annual course and conference

    Date
    17 Sep 2010 - 19 Sep 2010
    Location
    University of Leicester
    Website
    www.le.ac.uk/ESTA

    This is aimed at all teachers who deliver an Earth Science component of the curriculum, whether in Geology or through general science, Chemistry Biology, Physics and Geography. There will be INSET training sessions dedicated to all levels: Primary, KS3-4, Post-16 and HE - as well as lectures, workshops and activities, exhibitors, social events and fieldwork.

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  • IoP East Midlands Teacher Network Day

    Date
    18 Sep 2010
    Location
    Leicester Grammar School, LE8 9FL
    Website
    www.iop.org/activity/education/Calendar/index.html

    Saturday event for teachers of physics. This will include a lecture on the Large Hadron Collider, given by Prof. W J Stirling, as well as a choice of workshops.

    Fee: £10 (including buffet lunch).

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  • IoP Schools Lecture Series 2010

    Date
    07 Oct 2010
    Location
    Chapel-en-le-Frith High School, Derbyshire
    Website
    www.iop.org/activity/education/Events/Schools_and_College_%20Lecture_Series/page_27031.html

    The free interactive lecture is designed to show school pupils, aged 14-16, contemporary developments in physics in a fun and lively way. 

    2010 Lecture: Powering the Future, Dr Melanie Windridge

    Find out how the reaction that powers the sun could provide a clean energy source for the future.

    An exciting, interactive free talk for school students, which builds on everyday physics to explain groundbreaking research.

    This inspiring lecture will reveal:

    -The physics behind the fusion reaction that powers the sun;

    -How physicists are trying to replicate the fusion reaction in massive experiments at places such as JET, the world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment at Culham

    -The potential for harnessing the energy produced in the fusion reaction as a future alternative to fossil fuels.

    With hands-on demonstrations the lecture will explore the challenges of creating facilities that can withstand the high temperatures of the sun in order to create the fusion reaction on earth. 

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  • National Science & Engineering Week Briefing Evening

    Date
    11 Oct 2010
    Location
    Britannia House, Northampton NN4 7YB 
    Contact
    Phil Brown
    Email
    philip.brown@britishscienceassociation.org
    Website
    nsew-northampton.eventbrite.com/

    A free workshop is available for all those interested in organising events and activities for next year’s National Science and Engineering Week (NSEW), which takes place 11–20 March 2011. Come along and find out about:

    • Funding hints and tips
    • Hands-on activity ideas
    • Details of the 2011 theme and mass participation activities
    • Free resources for organisers
    • Network and brainstorm ideas with other event organisers

    The sessions will also include a talk from a local event organiser who has previously run their own NSEW event. 

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  • East Midlands STEM Partnership Forum Event 2010

    Date
    12 Oct 2010
    Location
    Nottingham

    Agenda

    9.00am             Registration

    9.30am             Welcome and Introduction from Forum Event Chair

                            MC – Cathy Brown

                            Welcome and Aims of the Forum Event

    STEM Careers - Introduce the 3 key messages

    9.40am             iNet Speaker - TBC

                            Focus on growth area in East Midlands

    10.10am            Refreshment Break       

    10.30am            Andrew Bowyer, Director, Magna Parva Ltd

                            Employer perspective on transferable skills

    11.00am            Panel Discussion

                            The panel discusses who and what influenced their STEM career choices:

    Ruth Amos, Young Engineer of Great Britain 2006, creator of StairSteady, Dr Helen Meese, Technical Assurance Engineer, Babcock International Group and Amy Warner currently studying for her Ph.d in Biomedical Sciences at The University of Nottingham.   

    11.45am            Plenary – Cathy Brown

                Re-enforce the 3 key messages

    12.00 pm          Close

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