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Latest News
07/09/2010
The Royal Society’s Partnership Grants scheme
The Royal Society’s Partnership Grants scheme is now open. You can apply for up to £3000 to work with scientists and engineers on creative investigations that inspire students with the excitement and wonder of cutting-edge science or engineering research.
Funds are available for projects working with students aged between 5-19, as long as the project involves a UK school or college, and a practising scientist or engineer. The next round for applications closes on 5 November 2010. For more details about eligibility criteria and to find out how to apply, go to http://royalsociety.org/partnership.
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01/09/2010
Primary, Secondary and Advanced Leaders Award for STEM......
Project Overview
The Leader’s award for STEM was designed to give students between the ages of 5 and 19 an opportunity to gather personalised careers awareness. Students research, meet and interview professionals from a range of backgrounds about their career, career paths asking questions that are important to them.
The project has two parts, firstly students write a formal letter of application emailed to the editor@leadersaward.com To complete the award students must then complete an interview with a STEM professional and submit to the editor whereon they will receive a certificate.
Special Awards are a series of awards supported by outside organisations each having a particular foci for the interviews and range of prizes for the best entries. Students can submit as many interviews as they wish in any one academic year. (The Leaders Award requires an annual up-dated application letter.)
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26/08/2010
Newsletters
Newsletters are sent out to all schools in Cumbria as and when they have been produced. The newsletters contain details of competitions, forthcoming events and teaching resources & other latest news!
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26/08/2010
STEM Challenges 4
Challenge description for schools:
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.
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20/07/2010
The National STEM Centre's e-Library
The National STEM Centre’s e-Library resource bank is now live, with an extremely impressive collection of resources , and definitely worth a look
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17/06/2010
Calendar
New Google Calendar.
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10/06/2010
The Big Bang 2011
Call for activities - The Big Bang 2011
The Big Bang: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair 2011 will take place at the International Convention Centre, London ExCel from 10 - 12 March.
The Fair is a free event for all 7-19 year olds, their teachers and families - with school and college groups invited on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th March - and the public welcomed on Saturday 12th.
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27/05/2010
K'Nex Quotes from Teachers and Ambassadors
Pupils from Ashfield Junior School took part in the K'Nex Challenge 2010.
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26/05/2010
Sharing Success
An account of a STEM Day from an Ambassadors perspective.
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22/04/2010
FREE EVENT - North West D&T Festival - Fri 25th June
National and Regional D&T and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) organisations have joined forces to present the North West D&T Festival which will be hosted by the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington.
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