Your guide to key STEM events in the region and throughout the UK.
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.
Challenge Final: at ASE Conference, Reading, Thursday 06 January 2011
It's Number Day's 10th birthday. Help the NSPCC celebrate the magic of maths by joining us for some number crunching fun and the chance to take part in the World's Biggest Maths Lesson. For 10 years Number Day has engaged thousands of pupils and teachers across the UK. We want to make 2010 a year to remember, so this Number Day will be the biggest and best yet. There will be:
Register your schools support and watch out for your Number Day pack which will be landing in all schools from Wednesday 6 October 2010. It will contain everything you need to take part and verify your schools part in this record breaking event.
Organised by Lincolnshire & Rutland EBP, this event is to bring teachers and STEM Ambassadors together to discuss how Ambassadors can support teachers in STEM subjects.
Organised by LEBC, this event is to bring teachers and STEM Ambassadors together to discuss how Ambassadors can support teachers, particularly in healthcare-related areas
The BBC and Aardman Animations and have teamed up to create an exciting new roadshow to accompany Wallace & Gromit's 'World of Invention' television series this autumn. Inspired by Wallace's love of inventing and the craft of Aardman's animators, visitors will get the chance to experience a fun Wallace & Gromit invention session. There will also be original animation sets from the show to see and you will be able to get hands-on at the clay station. The roadshow is FREE to everyone and we expect it to be popular. Places are limited and will be available on a first come first served basis. The minimum age for the invention sessions is 7 years and for the clay station it's 3 years.
Organised by LEBC, this event is to bring teachers and STEM Ambassadors together to discuss how Ambassadors can support teachers, with the focus on Engineering.