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January 25, 2016
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Opportunities in Geoscience: Student’s Stories of Exploration and Research

        Created to inspire learners to get involved with geography and show how this and similar subjects can be used to tackle the environmental issues facing the world. Come to see student’s accounts of climate change in Greenland, geological … Continue reading

January 18, 2016
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Topical Science – Tim Peake makes historic spacewalk

Major Tim Peake, the first astronaut representing the UK to carry out a spacewalk, has described the experience as ‘exhilarating’. Peake and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra ventured outside the International Space Station on Friday 15 January to replace a broken … Continue reading

January 11, 2016
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Our Environment Competition 2016

If you’re of primary or secondary school age and live in Scotland, we want to hear your ideas on how you would improve your local environment. Present your ideas in any format, and submit it as an individual school class … Continue reading

January 8, 2016
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Royal Institution STEM Enrichment & Enhancement Grant

The Royal Institution STEM E&E Grant Scheme offers UK-registered state schools a grant of up to £500 to experience a STEM activity taken from the STEM Directories. The scheme is designed to help integrate STEM Enrichment and Enhancement activities into … Continue reading

January 8, 2016
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Edinburgh International Science Festival – Careers Hive

Careers Hive is a new flagship project by Edinburgh International Science Festival for all S1 to S3 students. This immersive event will focus on the vast range of exciting – and often unknown or underappreciated – opportunities available to those … Continue reading

January 8, 2016
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Citizen Science & Curriculum for Excellence Guide

Want to discover a new quasar in deep space, count elephants in the Serengeti National Park from the comfort of your classroom or monitor invasive species in your local park? If so, then you will be joining forces with millions … Continue reading

December 17, 2015
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So you want to be a space biologist or rocket scientist? (thanks to Tim Peake)

Of the many and various items that British ESA astronaut Tim Peake has taken aboard the International Space Station, you may not have considered 2kg of rocket seeds being among them. The seeds are staying with Tim for 6 months and … Continue reading

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