FuseLab Go is Dragons Den for young people aged 15- 18 years. This is your chance to bring your ideas for new products to life through a free two day workshop.
The workshop takes as its starting point the problems involved in inhabiting a new planet. Over the two days you will work in small teams with inspirational mentors and experts from the areas of design, technology and business to solve a problem, to innovate and invent, giving you the opportunity to share your ideas with real innovators. At the end of the two days you and your team will pitch your idea for a new product.
This is a great crash course in how to make and test new products and services – it’s a lot of fun too!
National Women in Engineering Day was set up by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and is dedicated to raising the profile and celebrating the achievements of women in engineering
Encouraging girls into engineering careers will not only increase diversity and inclusion but help to fill the substantial future job opportunities that have been predicted in this sector.
The idea behind National Women in Engineering Day is to encourage all groups (Governmental, educational, corporate, Professional Engineering Institutions, individuals and other organisations) to organise their own events in support of the day, and link them together for maximum impact through the use of the NWED logo, corresponding website, and supporting resources.
Organisers should aim to get as much publicity for their events as possible, to get ‘engineering’ and ‘girls’ (or women!) into the same sentence as often as possible, and to start to raise the profile of an engineering career as a great choice, with an exciting future, and amazing opportunities.
NWED Resource Packs are now available to request free of charge from nwed@wes.org.uk or to download from the site www.nwed.org.uk.
Superhero Science: First Class is an exciting new science communication show for P5-7 which takes students on an interactive learning experience, delivering scientific concepts in a fun and engaging way.
The show is presented by an Agent of the fictional ‘A.W.E.S.O.M.E’ agency and features interactive demonstrations, a multimedia presentation and ‘choose your own adventure’ style audience participation while investigating the science of how superpowers might theoretically work.
The show is 60 minutes long and is followed by an optional Q&A session.
Project Officers, IGB Scotland
Department: Education
Location: Scotland – Central Belt and Fife
Salary:£38,570 p/a (pro-rata)
We are looking for two full time equivalent Project Officers to implement the successful delivery of a new pilot programme working in partnership with Skills development Scotland and Education Scotland; ‘Improving Gender Balance’.
The Project Officers will work closely with schools to find ways of reducing the gender imbalance of students progressing to STEM subject Higher level, particularly in physics. The Project Officers will develop and facilitate a programme which includes three interventions which each trial a different, evidence-based approach to tackling the issue.
Responsibilities
The two Project Officers will support six Partner Schools and their cluster primary schools during the course of the project. The nature of the support will be different for each strand, but may include providing focused support for teachers in the science departments, arranging activities for students in the schools and partner primary schools, and developing and implementing whole school approaches to combatting gender stereotyping.
About You
The successful post-holders will be extremely proactive with a can-do attitude. They will have excellent project management skills and a high level of interpersonal and communication skills, including a proven ability to influence others and gain trust and commitment.
•A degree or equivalent in a science or social science subject is essential.
•A familiarity with the Scottish secondary school system and with the issues surrounding gender imbalance in schools is also required.
The posts can be home based or based in Education Scotland’s offices, although the post-holders will spend the majority of their working hours in the Partner Schools, which will be in the Central Belt and Fife. Regular travel to the schools will therefore be an essential part of the role.
About Us
There are a variety of full time, part time and flexible positions available. The posts are offered on a fixed term contract of one year, with a probable extension for a further two years.
In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer employees a comprehensive benefits package including an excellent pension scheme, private medical insurance and generous annual leave. We also offer a range of other benefits including childcare vouchers, gym membership and travel insurance.
For further information on this role please see the job description below
The Insitute kindly requests no contact from recruitment agencies regarding this role.
Closing date for applications: Monday 4 May 2015
Interviews to be held: Friday 22 May 2015 at The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Further Information Job Description
Now in its ninth year, Glasgow Science Festival (4-14th June) is back with a fresh batch of exciting events to inspire and intrigue young minds!
All school events are FREE and cover a variety of subjects, from microbiology and forensic science to physics and engineering. Places are available for pupils in Primary 3 through to S6.
Our public programme also offers a range of fun activities for school-age children and families, including Science Sunday at the University of Glasgow, the Strathclyde Science Special and a weekend of hands-on science at at Kelvingrove.
Holidaying in Ibiza or even backpacking across Europe was not an option last summer for four inspirational undergraduate students from all across Scotland, who spurned the ordinary and instead single-handedly organised an extraordinary trip to the Arctic.
The main purpose of the trip was to study how climate change is affecting the landscape and the people of the Arctic.
Team leader, Cameron MacKay, was motivated to go on the trip due to his strong interest in climate change. To record the effects of climate change they used camera drones, art and social research. They responded to what they saw through creating music and art work.
To hear more from Cameron and the rest of his team tune in to our Glow meet on Wednesday 27th May, 10.45 – 11.45. They will be showing footage of the trip and answering your questions.
Take a look beforehand on Education Scotland’s Weather and Climate Change page http://bit.ly/WeatherandClimateChange Click on Climate Change then Climate Change in Greenland.
This Glow meet is aimed at upper primary and lower secondary.
Throughout the last term Dundee Science Centre’s STEM Learning Team have visited 10 secondary schools across Dundee, Fife, Perth and Kinross and Angus with Dr Stephen Watt of the Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre, University of Dundee. The team took groups of senior phase learners through an electrophoresis workshop developed to suit Unit 1 of the new CfE Higher Human Biology course.
The context was skin cancer, and the workshop had three distinct strands. Stephen had some DNA samples of a particular oncogene which the pupils had to prepare for loading, load into the gels, and then analyse the gels to determine which samples were healthy skin and which were cancerous.
Whilst the gels ran, they had the opportunity to study healthy and cancerous skin tissue through microscopes, identifying key features of each. There was also time for the pupils to speak to Stephen, to ask questions about skin cancer and what it is like to be a research scientist.
The groups then went through a data analysis task to see which type of cancer treatment is most effective – chemotherapy or targeted treatments.
The workshop provided an excellent opportunity for young people to learn from a professional scientist about world leading research.
Here’s what teachers said:
“It fitted in well to the Higher Human course”
“Pupils really enjoyed the workshop”
“An absolutely fantastic workshop, thank you!”
“I would personally love it if you were able to come out again when we are teaching CfE Higher Human next year!”
Dundee Science Centre hopes to be able to offer this experience again in the future. If you’d be interested to find out more, get in touch by e-mailing learning@dundeesciencecentre.org.uk
This year’s Institute of Physics Stirling Meeting will take place at the Stirling Court Hotel (formerly known as the Management Centre) on Wednesday 20th May. Full details, including the programme and the online registration system are available at www.stirlingmeeting.org
Registration deadline is 15th May.
Once again SSERC will be distributing free a valuable educational resource to all delegates who are currently teaching in schools.
This infographic into the realm of biochemistry, with a look at the chemical structure of DNA, and its role in creating proteins in our cells. Of course, it’s not just in humans that DNA is found – it’s present in the cells of every multicellular life form on Earth. This graphic provides an overview of its common structure across these life forms, and a brief explanation of how it allows proteins to be generated.
To download your own copy of the infographic and for further information, click on this link to Compound Interest.
MARSBalloon is a free project open to all UK schools that launches student Mars science experiments on high altitude balloons 30km up into Earth’s atmosphere.
At this altitude the conditions of gas pressure, temperature and radiation are very similar to the surface of Mars; making it an ideal testing ground for trying out anything that humans or robots might be doing on Mars in the future.
Teachers can register now for our next flight where we plan to launch up to 100 student experiments; each of which should fit into a kinder egg toy capsule. After the flight the experiment capsules will be returned to the schools for analysis by the students.
This project can be run within a variety of STEM subject lessons or after school clubs and taking part will help your students to:
learn more about the environment of Mars and its future exploration
work as a group to formulate, design, build and analyse the results of a real Mars science experiment
consider careers in UK space and other STEM industries.
This project is run by space engineers from Thales Alenia Space UK and funded by Thales UK for the purpose of engaging more students into high tech engineering and ground-breaking science.
There is no cost to take part in the project other than that of experiment materials and postage. Teachers can find out more and register their class or club for free at www.marsballoon.com
