| |
Welcome to the August issue of the Sparxx monthly newsletter!
Sparxx is celebrating Great Britain coming second in the Olympics medal table this month with an Olympics themed newsletter. Check out the Career Wall if you'd like to know more about the STEM careers that help athletes achieve their success. Find out more about Simone Biles' gravity-defying physics in the Did You Know section. Two sports engineers talk about the ways in which they help give the athletes an advantage in the Video of the Month section.
As the end of summer approaches we also have some aerodynamics to give you a lift! Emma England, our Sparxx of the Month, is a loads and aeroelastic engineer at Airbus; and we bring you Airlander 10 (look carefully and you'll spot it twice in the newsletter) in the Did You Know section along with an American aviation pioneer. Our Organisation of the Month is Engenius Films which features real engineers, including a Rocket Engineer! Plus investigate Bernoulli's Principle in the DIY section.
This month's Blog features the Engineering HerStories: Magnificent Women Competition winning entry on Claudia Parsons. In the Fun Stuff section you can discover Whose Crew Are You? and destroy deadly bacteria while keeping antibiotics effective for as long as possible in the Superbugs game. The Book Review section contains a link to the Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize 2016 shortlist.
The News section is jam-packed with the winners of the Sparxx Prize Draw, the Technicians Make It Happen campaign, Cisco Little Big Award Success, The Bright Ideas Challenge winners, Schools Aerospace Challenge, The Rochester Bridge Trust's new Education Officer, Inspiring the next generation and the Witlshire Festival of Engineering.
For Our Educators there is money to to be won in the Crest Awards survey and £300 funding support available to broaden their reach, plus the 2016 FMSP/UKMT Senior Team Mathematics Challenge has been launched.
Two new Competitions this month plus lots of Events to go to all round the country.
|
|
 Sparxx of the Month
 |
|
|
Emma England - Sparxx of the Month |
Our August Sparxx of the Month, Emma England, is a loads and aeroelastics engineer at Airbus who sits on the Women's Engineering Society Young Members' Board.
Emma was encouraged to consider engineering by her maths teacher and completed a Year in Industry at Rolls-Royce before studying Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Bristol. She is currently supporting the A330neo aircraft programme.
Read the full interview here.
"Take all of the opportunities that you get, you will never know where they are going to lead
.
"
|
Competitions
If you haven't already entered, check out our Competitions
page to find out more about these exciting challenges.
CAN YOU CONNECT THE UNCONNECTED?
We use the internet every day: on our computers, on tablets and mobile phones. You can watch TV, make phone calls, send photos, and shop - all on the internet. But even today less than 1% of all things are connected to the internet. What happens when your microwave, your central heating, your car, or even maybe your school workbooks are connected to the internet?
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Teams of 3 to 6 students aged 11-14. [In England and Wales participants must be from years 7-9; in Scotland from years S1/S2/S3; and in Northern Ireland from years 8-10].
There is a limit of one team per school attending the regional finals, but this does not preclude a school from having a larger participation internally, perhaps concluding with an internal final to decide who will ultimately represent the school.
September 2016 Challenge Kick-off; January/February 2017 Regional Finals; March 2017 National Final
Have a look at the News section to see Alton Convent School pupil's Little Big Awards Success.
- FLL Challenge 2016: ANIMAL ALLIES
Get ready. Get set. Roar! Or you could bark, quack, or squeak, because the 2016 ANIMAL ALLIES season is all about our furry, feathered, and finned friends. In the 2016 FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Challenge, more than 28,000 teams of students aged 9 to 16 will look into the eyes of our ANIMAL ALLIES. What might become possible when we learn to help each other?
FLL challenges young people to think like scientists and engineers. During the ANIMAL ALLIES season, teams will investigate and solve a real-world problem in the Project. They will also build, test, and program an autonomous robot using LEGO® MINDSTORMS® technology to solve a set of missions in the Robot Game. Throughout their experience, teams will operate under FLL's signature set of Core Values, celebrating discovery, teamwork, and Gracious Professionalism®.
DEADLINE:
Team registration closes October 2016
;
UK and Ireland Final February 2016
|
Still plenty of time to enter...
- TEENTECH City of Tomorrow
To take part in the TeenTech City of Tomorrow working to the brief of 'smarter, kinder, safer' young people, individually or in small teams, have to design and construct architectural models of buildings to sit on the footprint of an A4 card - but buildings can go out as well as up. Together they will develop ideas for the connected city, addressing issues of how we will live, work and play in the future. Materials used to build project models should be recycled or cost no more than £10 if bought specially. Once young people have constructed their buildings they are invited to enter them into the annual City of Tomorrow competition.
DEADLINE: All building designs uploaded before October 31st will be considered for the 2016 TeenTech Civic Hackathon & Final. Entries submitted after this date will be considered for the 2017 final.
- The Big Bang UK Young Scientists &,Engineers Competition
The Big Bang Competition lets more young people than ever showcase their science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) projects and rewards and recognises their achievements. It's open to UK residents in full-time education or training (year groups 7-13 in England/Wales, 8-14 in Northern Ireland and P1-S6 in Scotland).
Online applications are now open until 20 November 2016.
Finalists will showcase their projects to thousands of visitors at The Big Bang Fair 2017, 15-18 March in Birmingham, the UK's largest STEM celebration for young people. Winners will get a range of fantastic prizes, including the chance to be crowned UK Young Scientist of the Year and UK Young Engineer of the Year, as well as special prizes from companies including BAE Systems and Rotary International.
Enter your project
www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/competition is open to all 11-18 year olds living in the UK and in full-time education.
NEW DEADLINE: 20 November 2016
|
The deadline for these competitions will be here before you know it, so get a headstart and check out our
Competitions
page.
Entries are now open for Artful Physics, an exciting creative science competition for children from age 9-18, challenging them to create an artistic piece that engages young people in physics and astronomy that could inspire future scientists.
DEADLINE: 16th December 2016
- Design For A Better World
Design for a better world offers an exciting new global design challenge and competition for students aged 11-14 years.
DEADLINE: 16th December 2016
- Win a Lego Windstorm Education EV3
'As technology advances we are able to improve the quality of our life in many ways. We may soon see driverless cars on our roads but our own homes can even now become connected homes which allow us to interface with them via our smart phones. In that new world, how would you like to be connected with your home, and how may being connected with your home improve the quality of life for your family?'
This competition is for individuals or
groups (only ONE entry per school) aged 14-18. Winners will be announced on the department's website and winners will be informed individually by the 31st January 2017. Entries to be sent by email to the Head of Department at [email protected] either as an attachment, a YouTube link or a cloud storage link.
DEADLINE: The closing date for entries is 31st December 2016.
|
Did you know?
Is it a bird? No. Is it a plane? Yes, it's the
Airlander
10!
|
|
|
|
Airlander 10
|
|
The Airlander 10 - part plane and part airship - made its maiden flight this month on the 17th August 2016. The Airlander has four massive engines and on its test flight flew 6 miles climbing to a height of 500 ft and reaching a maximum speed of 35 knots.
The largest aircraft currently flying, it measures 92m long, 43.5m wide and 26m high. Designed to stay airborne for up to five days at a time it can can take off and land in a short distance from unprepared sites. It is an innovation that utilises new aerospace technology to provide low noise and low carbon aviation, with lower operating costs.
News Update: Unfortunately its second voyage on the 24th August ended in a crash landing. Learning through trial and error is a fundamental method of solving problems. F
ind out more about the
Airlander 10
here
.
Jacqueline Cochran, a pioneer in the field of American Aviation,
was the first woman to break the sound barrier and is one of history's most accomplished female aviators.
|
|
|
Jacqueline Cochran, an American aviation pioneer. |
Born into poverty, as a young girl Jacqueline Cochran worked in textile mills and a beauty shop where she learned how to cut hair. She enrolled in nursing school, but decided she wasn't suited to the profession. After moving to New York she worked as a beautician and at a dinner met the business financier Floyd Odlum, who suggested she learn to fly to get an advantage over her competitors.
She took lessons, earned her commercial pilot's licence and began competing in air races. Jacqueline never looked back and aviation became her life.
She holds more speed
and distance records than any flier in history and amongst other achievements was the first woman to:
- fly in and win the Bendix Trophy Race;
- fly a bomber across the Atlantic Ocean;
- make a blind instrument landing;
- break the sound barrier;
- take-off and land from an aircraft carrier;
- attain a flying speed of 842 mph;
- and serve as President of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.
She advocated for female aviator involvement in WWII that led to the formation of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots for which she received the Distinguished Service Medal.
You can read more about Jacqueline Cochran
here.
|
|
|
|
The gravity-defying physics of Simone Biles
|
|
Simone Biles with her complicated routines and often perfect execution is amazing to watch and even more impressive when you know the gravity-defying physics.
While flipping gymnasts shouldn't be able to keep their bodies so straight and the smallest imprecise movement can send their bodies twisting and turning in the wrong direction. Yet the world's best gymnasts manage to keep their bodies stable and almost perfectly straight, accomplishing the near impossible.
Find out more about her gravity-defying physics here and watch the video here.
|
Blog
Engineering HerStories: Magnificent Women Competition
Winners
|
|
|
| Jasneet & Esther |
|
To celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2019 the
Women's Engineering Society will be featuring 52 Magnificent Women from history who have been involved in UK engineering over the past 100 years.
The Challenge (sponsored by Northrop Grumman as part of the Magnificent Women activity) was for students aged 14-18 year to research lesser known British women engineers and tell the stories of our forgotten women in history.
Read Jasneet and Esther's winning entry to discover more about Claudia Parsons, one of the first women to receive diploma in Automobile Engineering and the first women to circumnavigate the globe by car. Read it now!
|
Leonardo da Vinci: The
Mechanics of Genius
Wed Feb 10th - Sun Sep 4th
Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius is the internationally-acclaimed, must-see exhibition of 2016. It's your chance to investigate both the facts and the misconceptions that surround this great genius of the Renaissance: Was he the period's only designer of machines? Did all of his designs get fully constructed?
Amy Johnson Festival
Fri 1st Jul - Tue 6th Sep
2016 is the 75 th anniversary of the death of Amy Johnson, Hull's flying heroine. Born in Hull in 1903, Amy Johnson CBE was one of the most influential and inspirational women of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia and set a string of other records throughout her career.
The Amy Johnson Festival will mark this anniversary and celebrate Amy's life, achievements and legacy with an ambitious international programme of the arts and engineering sciences appealing to all interests and ages.
Utopia 2016
Fri Jul 1st - Sun Oct 2nd
A 3 month-long art/science exhibition and series of talks taking place at Somerset House, all about Utopia. This includes a series of projects about the work happening in the health schools at King's, from genetics to cancer to nursing.
Th
e Engineering Season at the V&A
Wed May 18th - Sun Nov 6th
The Engineering Season at the V&A (18 May - 6 November 2016) will celebrate the 'unsung heroes' of design that create and shape the built world. The exciting line-up includes a major retrospective of the engineering legend Ove Arup, a display highlighting the global impact of contemporary British engineers, a garden pavilion woven by a robot, and a packed events programme exploring some of the most advanced engineering taking place in the world today.
MOUTHY: INTO THE ORIFICE
Fri Jul 1st - Thu Nov 24th
 From human spit crystals and the science of snogging to hacked prosthetics that allow your facial movements to control digital games, MOUTHY will be a season packed full of surprising experiences that invite you to get involved and connect with your mouth in new ways...
Calendar of activities across King's College London Guy's campus and other surprising locations around London Bridge -
https://london.sciencegallery.com/mouthy/
|
|
September
British Science Festival
Celebrate the best of British science. Expand your horizons with four days of free events, talks and performances from across the scientific spectrum.
Join leading academics to discover, discuss and debate the latest ideas and innovations set to change our future. The four-day Festival will be immediately followed by a Family Weekend in Swansea on 10 & 11 September 2016.
Science & Technology Facilities Council: Talking Science Series 2016-17
Wed 7th Sep - Fri 16th Jun 2017
FREE stimulating talks on science, maths and the Universe, for families, public and schools
Monster Confidence
Thu 8th Sep - Wed 12th Oct
This Autumn, a dose of MonsterConfidence for the UK's young women in STEM, from the Stemettes for FREE.
Glasgow, Belfast, Birmingham & Cardiff.
"#MonsterConfidence is our 2016 UK tour of Glasgow, Belfast, Birmingham and Cardiff in partnership with jobsite Monster.co.uk. We're holding half-day events for young women aged 15 and above to meet with local STEM companies and gain 'Monster Confidence' for their STEM careers via mock interviews, speed mentoring and career workshops chosen by attendees."
Visit
monsterconfidence.co.uk to register and for more details.
London Design Festival Baboushka Boxes
Sat Sep 17th - Sun 25th
Housing has never been a more topical issue, and it is one that Shelter and Legal & General seek to address through an experiential installation designed by dRMM. The interactive exhibition will feature a series of boxlike structures made from cross-laminated timber.
Victoria Gardens, London.
Cyber/STEM Girls Day 2016
Wed 21st Sep 9:30am - 4:15pm
Hear from women in the business and learn how innovative hands-on activities can link to future careers. Join in dynamic careers talks throughout the day with women in business to start thinking about your next career move into technology and cyber roles.
Tour the museum to see where today's technology has come from.
The event is for girls of all ages, starting at year seven up to graduates. You may be a computer science student, but you don't have to be - if you like history or languages or the social sciences and use technology, you should attend!
New Scientist Live
The Sep 22nd - Sun 25th
New Scientist Live is a festival of ideas and discovery, taking place at ExCeL London. Rooted in the biggest, best and most provocative science, New Scientist Live will touch on all areas of human life. The show will feature four immersive zones covering Brain & Body, Technology, Earth and Cosmos. For four days this September, New Scientist Live will be like no other place on earth.
Light up the Ladies Bridge
Thu 22 - Sat 24 September
Live performances, film and large scale photographic projections by Karen Livesey and Concrete History on the National Theatre's fly tower of trail-blazing female construction workers who re-built the bridge during World War II.
The Singing Bridge
Fri 9 - Sun 25 September
An experiential art piece created by Claudia Molitor i
nspired by the history of Waterloo Bridge . Participants can collect a headset from Somerset House and take a 40 minute musical journey on foot.
Wiltshire Engineering Festival
Wed Sep 28th
The Wiltshire Engineering Festival is an event organised by MP Michelle Donelan to encourage the younger generation to enter into a world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The idea of this festival is for students (particularly years 6/7/8/9) to meet and talk to many of Wiltshire's most successful companies that operate in the technology and engineering sector. Overall, the festival is aimed to capture the imaginations of young people to see what science and engineering has to offer and to hopefully encourage a future career in engineering.
Imperial Fringe: Water Water Everywhere
Thu 29th Sep 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Water Water Everywhere...but when it is ok to drink? Does it exist on other planets? And what we can do to hold it back to prevent floods? Imperial Fringe is back, overflowing with all things H2 and O.
Register for more information on this latest Imperial Fringe, including details of the exhibitors presenting their research. By registering with Imperial Fringe you will also be entered into the hat to win a special prize, announced throughout the course of the evening.
|
Have a look at the Events page to find out more
October
Sat 8th Oct
The GeekGirl Team is really excited to announce the conference theme for 2016 - The Way We're Wired
The internet has changed the way we're wired, from our mental health to how we find romantic partners. Technology has impacted our online and offline behaviours. But we're also changing the way we use technology, from AI to robotics, it's evolving fast. GeekGirl Meetup's annual conference deep dives into how tech is changing us and how we're shaping tech.
Biology Week 2016
Sat 8th Oct - Sun 16th
An annual celebration of the biosciences, with events around the UK and beyond
WIKITHON. Women engineers in the First World War and after.
Tue 11th Oct 10:00am - 3:00pm
This free one day collaborative project will look back at the role of women in engineering and technical disciplines during the First World War and beyond, and will start to bring out some of the stories documented in the newly digitised Women's Engineering Society archive. In collaboration the University of Leeds, the University of Leicester, the team at the IET archive, Wikipedia, and many others contributors the day will be an informative and interactive and entertaining event which will set the stage for further collaboration on this important and as yet largely unexplored part of our heritage.
Into The Blue
Tue 25th Oct - Sat 29th
NERC Into The Blue showcase is taking place in Manchester during October half-term (25-29 October 2016).
|
Career Wall
Two STEM careers that help athletes achieve success
Laura Trott a
British track and road cyclist won her fourth Gold Olympic medal at Rio 2016 making her
Britain's most successful female olympian. Did you hear her interview after winning the omnium where she praised the team behind her success? This month we bring you two STEM careers that help athletes like Laura achieve their success.
"Sports engineering is the technical application of maths and physics to solve sporting problems. These might include: designing equipment, building facilities, analysing athlete performance, regulating standards, ensuring safety requirements are met, developing coaching tools..."
Find out more
here
.
"A sports scientist applies their technical knowledge of the human body to sport and other exercise, helping professional athletes improve their performance and other people - particularly those with an illness or disability - boost their health and quality of life through sport." Find out more here.
|
Organisation of the Month
Engenius Films are all about sharing the genius of engineering in all its glorious variety. The films were created by Dr. Emma Carter, a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, funded by the Engineering Professors' Council. They feature real Engineers from apprentices and students to university lecturers.
|
To celebrate NWED 2016 BAE Systems kindly donated ten RAVPower chargers for Sparxx newsletter readers.
We're delighted to be able to announce the winners picked at random from everyone who had signed up to the e-newsletter by midnight on the 10 July 2016. Congratulations to the winners: T Saghafi, M Rimoczi, K Morris, D Hearshaw, A Thomas, R Farmer, N Swanson, S Mahmoud, S Bhatti and K Watford.
|
Technicians Make It Happen
Technicians are vital to society. And their skills are needed now more than ever.
On Monday 15 August an image sharing competition #techniciansmakeithappen was launched by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
"Look around you and find something that technicians will have helped to make. Be creative - we're talking about almost anything you use in your daily life, from your face wash to your trainers.
Next snap it - take a picture of it with 'Technicians Make it Happen' somewhere in the pic - it can be a sticker, post-it note, chalkboard - whatever you fancy. Finally, post it on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook using #techniciansmakeithappen."
Find out more here.
|
Cisco Little Big Award Success
EcoScan by Alton Convent School Pupils
|
|
| EcoScan by Alton Convent School pupils |
View the Alton Convent School Year 8 pupils Cisco Little Big Award video here. If you'd like to enter have a look at the Competitions section.
|
|
The Bright Ideas Challenge
And the winner is... Champions of national STEM competition announced
What will cities look like in 2050? How will they
be powered to be vibrant, healthy and clean places to live? That's the question Shell asked secondary school students aged 11-14 through The Bright Ideas Challenge, its cross-curricular schools competition was launched to inspire the scientists and engineers of tomorrow.
12 regional winners received £1,500 to supersize science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) in their school, plus a tablet for each team member. In addition to the prize money, they were all invited to Make the Future London, Shell's festival of ideas and innovation, hosted at the iconic Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The regional winners received VIP access to the exhibitions and activities on offer and even a photo opportunity with celebrity TV presenter and STEM champion Rachel Riley.
The highlight of the day was the The Bright Ideas Challenge awards ceremony, which saw the team from Queen Elizabeth's School in Barnet crowned national champions. They took home a total grand prize of £5,000 to improve STEM learning at their school. The students came up with the unique idea of installing transparent tubes filled with algae onto the sides of city buildings to instantly transform them into cle
an, energy-generating power stations!
With over 400 entries from 120 different schools, the competition was a huge success, sparking some truly incredible ideas that could shape the answers to the energy challenges facing future cities. Read all about the regional national winners' ideas at
www.shell.co.uk/brightideaschallenge
.
Think your school could rise to the challenge in future years? Email [email protected] and for more information on forthcoming competitions.
|
Schools Aerospace Challenge
The 2016 Schools Aerospace Challenge five day residential held at the end of July at Cranfield University was a great success.
Twelve teams were chosen to take part including one all girl team! The action packed
week involved many lectures, exercises and activities plus a visit to see the world's largest aircraft, Airlander, at Hybrid Air Vehicles, a trip to Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group and a talk from Reaction Engines Ltd the creators of the revolutionary SABRE engine.
|
|
|
Leaving!
|
|
|
|
|
Airlander visit
|
|
The overall winners will be announced at the annual reception held at the The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London in November.
|
The Rochester Bridge Trust
Teacher joins engineering education initiative
The Rochester Bridge Trust has appointed a new Education Officer, completing the new team which will deliver its programme of engineering education projects.
Former teacher and school improvement consultant Aileen White
brings two decades of educational experience to the Trust, where she will work to encourage adults and children to discover the appeal of civil engineering as a career.
Aileen explained: "I am passionate about creative approaches to teaching and learning and look forward to working with teachers and children, students and young adults, helping them to experience the appeal of civil engineering - in particular bridge building.
"I am particularly inspired by the Rochester Bridge Trust's vision for the growth of its engineering education programme."
The Trust holds a range of activities throughout the year, as well as providing free materials, to support engineering education initiatives. In a joint role with another Education Officer, Sharron Mackenzie, Aileen will continue to develop and promote this work.
Bridge Clerk Sue Threader explained: "Since the publication a couple of years ago of Learning About Bridges - a book of lesson plans provided free to schools across Kent - the Trust has gradually increased its efforts to inspire the next generation of bridge builders.
"Appointing our two new education officers was an important next step on the road to encouraging even more young people to realise the appeal of a future in civil engineering."
See
www.rochesterbridgetrust.org.uk to find out more about the Trust's engineering education initiatives.
|
Inspiring the next generation
Budding Brunels course offers unique taste of the construction industry.
Over the course of 3 days in July, 15 students from schools in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest attended the Budding Brunels course in the Olympic Park, run by Construction Youth Trust in partnership with Canal & River Trust.
Budding Brunels is a schools engagement programme aimed at students from diverse backgrounds, with the aim to inform and inspire them about professional opportunities available within the construction industry. Students experience the industry from the inside, see what it's like to take on different professional roles and receive support and careers guidance to develop their own employability skills.
A partnership between the Canal and River Trust and Construction Youth has been in development since 2014. This led to further discussions with the Youth Engagement Team about partnering to deliver STEM educational workshops in England. This in turn developed into a partnership between the National Youth Engagement Team and Construction Youth Trust's Budding Brunels schools Engagement Programme.
With a focus on the redevelopment of Carpenter's Lock in the Olympic Park, the students participated in a variety of workshops and activities designed to introduce them to the array of potential careers open to them in the construction and built environment sector.
The last day culminated with interview skills and mock interviews hosted by the volunteers, from which at least 5 students will be chosen to take part in work experience placements with Canal & River Trust during the school holidays.
One student commented: "This course has helped me to understand that the construction industry is where I want to go in the future, and what I want to pursue as a career", whilst another said, " I thought construction was all by men and bricks, but it's not!"
Christine Townley, Executive Director at Construction Youth Trust commented; "Canal & River Trust are helping us to inspire the next generation and build the construction industry of the future. We hope that the students have enjoyed the experience and now have a greater understanding the opportunities available to them in the built environment"
|
Wiltshire Festival of Engineering
Over 1100 children register for Wiltshire Festival of Engineering
Significant numbers of Wiltshire school children have shown early interest in the Wiltshire Festival of Engineering by registering to attend the event. Latest registration figures show that 37 schools have signed up to take part in the Festival - which will see a staggering total of over 1100 young people (aged Year 6 upwards) inspired by local technology businesses.
The Wiltshire Festival of Engineering which takes place on Wednesday 28th September 2016, will provide young people with the opportunity to participate, explore and interact with local manufacturers engaged within the science, technology, engineering and mathematical sectors (STEM). Pupils will have the unique opportunity to interact with cutting-edge technology from organisations such as the UK Atomic Energy Authority and to have a go at some amazing activities provided by a host of businesses.
The Festival, organised by Chippenham MP Michelle Donelan, aims to open new doors into the world of manufacturing and engineering, paving the way for a new skilled workforce here in Wiltshire.
Many of Wiltshire's most successful engineering and manufacturing companies have shown commitment for the Festival, which is being supported by the James Dyson Foundation. Event sponsors and attendees include major local technology sector businesses including Airbus, Good Energy, Great Western Railway, Atkins Global, Network Rail, Siemens, EDF and Hitachi.
The Festival will also allow local companies such as IXYS, Danlers Ltd and Brunel Engineering to engage with the younger generation hoping to inspire a new local elite workforce. The Festival's organisers report that there is still limited space available for companies that would like to get involved. Engineering businesses and training providers looking to be a part of the Festival should aim to submit their booking forms by end of July.
The Festival will take place on Wednesday 28th September 2016 at Chippenham's Olympiad Leisure Centre. School places are now full for the Wiltshire Festival of Engineering, however parents/guardians are welcome to bring along their children to the event between 4-5pm on the day. For further information, or to get involved with the Festival and its aims, email:
[email protected]
or visit
http://festivalofengineering.com/
|
Video of the Month
Have you been watching the Olympics and admiring the performances of the athletes? D
iscover some of the ways engineers give them an advantage in
these
Videos of the Month
.
|
|
| IMechE: Sports Engineering, an unfair advantage: The engineering behind swimming |
|
|
| IMechE: Sports Engineering, an unfair advantage: Engineering running shoes |
For more inspiring videos, check out our
Videos
page.
|
Fun Stuff
Whose Crew Are You?
From exploring outer space to designing the phone in your pocket, all the best things are made by teams working together.
Maybe you'd like to work outdoors designing and making buildings? If so, the Construction Crew could be for you. Or, you might want to contribute to events like The Olympic Games? If so, the Sports Crew might be your crew.
Visit
Whose Crew Are You?
to find out
which crew you are in
.
Superbugs
|
|
|
| Superbugs: The mobile game |
|
Destroy deadly bacteria and keep humanity's precious antibiotics working for as long as you can in this free, fast-paced, and addictive action game.
The story of this casual, real-time puzzle game comes straight from today's headlines: The rise of superbugs, resistant bacteria which can't be killed by the drugs we rely on to fight infection.
Click
here
to play the game.
|
DIY
Investigating Bernoulli's Principle
Bernoulli's principle explains how lift is generated and heavier-than-air objects can fly.
To learn more about how moving air allows you to levitate items in midair try these experiments...
|
For Our Educators
CREST Awards
Complete our teacher survey and win £50
To help us encourage more young people to participate, we are keen to understand more about what a wide range of teachers think about CREST Awards.
If you complete th
e short
online survey
online survey, you can choose to be entered into a prize draw to receive a £50 Amazon gift card.
Up to £300 for CREST reaching underrepresented audiences
The British Science Association is piloting a new programme to enable and encourage students from all backgrounds to participate in the CREST Awards scheme.
We will provide support and up to £300 worth of funding for schools and organisations to run CREST Awards for the first time, as well as to enable those familiar with CREST to broaden the reach to more underrepresented students.
There's more information and an application form on our website. The application deadline is Monday 26th September 2016.
|
FMSP/UKMT Senior Team Mathematics Challenge
The Further Mathematics Support Programme in partnership with the UK Mathematics Trust organises the Senior Team Mathematics Challenge.
The STMC is for students in years 11, 12 and 13 testing mathematical, communication and teamwork skills. Each team must consist of four Year 11, 12 or 13 (or equivalent) students with no more than two students from Year 13.
The 2016 Entry Form is now available to download and details of the locations of regional heats (taking place in November and December) are published on the website. Each heat lasts approximately three hours.
The competition is sponsored by Rolls-Royce plc and the final will be held in London on 7th February 2017. For more information visit the website.
|
Book Review
Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016
The only major international prize that celebrates science writing for a non-specialist audience. The Prize celebrates outstanding popular science books from around the world and is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience.
The
shortlist
has been released and the winner will be announced in September.
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The
National Science + Engineering Competition has been relaunched as
