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STEM career profile films

Our Bright Spark series of short films has recently been updated to include three more films. We hope they help young learners begin to make connections between the skills they have and are developing when engaging with Minecraft style games and 3D design software, and careers beyond formal education.

Kate McDougall, a civil engineer talks about her experience working on the £800 million Queensferry Crossing project and the upkeep of the current Forth Road Bridge.

Digital technology being used to document historic sites is the focus of our film with Dr. Lyn Wilson, a Heritage Scientist, who talks about digitally mapping sites like Mount Rushmore, Sydney Opera House and the Titan Crane in Glasgow.

heritage-scientist Lime

Finally, something a little less digital but just as important, Scott MacAskill a Lime Specialist, gives us an insight into his work. Scott repairs and maintains historic sites using traditional methods and materials. It’s fascinating work and we get a detailed look the process as well as hearing how Scott arrived at his chosen career after being diagnosed with dyslexia as a teenager.

If you haven’t seen the other films then do have a look. BBC Scotland Learning also produce loads of School radio programmes for 1st level and 2nd level which you can subscribe to in one easy click and our Dream Jobs series covers lots of different careers, from trauma medicine to video games design to First Minister for Scotland!   Have a look around and let us know what you think by keeping in touch via Twitter.

national museum of Scotland – 16th March 2016

We have our first live Build event at the National Museum of Scotland on Wednesday March the 16th.

You can find out all about it at the Festival of Architecture events site where there are loads of other great events you can get involved in throughout the year.

Our event promises to be great fun. We’ll be building with Minecraft and Tinkercad, recreating some of the buildings from the old tales of Greyfriar’s Bobby and Burke and Hare.

Do come along and get involved or just turn up and ask us questions about Build It Scotland. We’d love to meet you!

And if you don’t know it, you should definitely keep an eye on the Festival of Architecture blog too!

West Primary are up and running!

We had an update from West Primary School today. The children there are producing buildings in SketchUp and Minecraft of iconic buildings in and around Paisley.  I’m sure you’ll agree they are off to a brilliant start! We can’t wait to see how they progress.

Some of their inspiration-

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Their SketchUp work-

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Photos courtesy of Mr M.