This article is part of a series of follow-up questions on the My Smarter Essex presentations.
Over the years illumination in houses has become more efficient. This has been achieved in three ways:
We are very pleased to announce the dates for our 2017 Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition:
(Note that the competition has moved from a Friday to a Wednesday).
This year we are working in collaboration with the Big Bang Eastern to hold a joint event.
Congratulations to Jason Kent who, as the best-performing student in Mechanical Engineering BEng (Hons) at Anglia Ruskin University, claimed this year's CSES Award. Jason's commendable engagement in his study has been admired both by the ARU teaching staff and his peers. We look forward to seeing what the future holds for you, Jason!
CSES sponsors an award made to the most promising student in BSc/BEng (Hons) Engineering each year. The 2015/16 award was presented to Jason by Vic Leverett, CSES Vice President at a ceremony held at Anglia Ruskin University on 12 October 2016.
Pictured: Jason Kent (centre) receiving his award from CSES Vice President Vic Leverett (left) and Professor Keith Jones, Head of ARU's Department of Engineering and the Built Environment (right).
Greensward Academy launched a STEM club in 2015, aided by £500 of STEM Club Bursary seed funding from CSES. This grant enabled 110 students from years 7 and 8 to participate the 2015 UKMT Junior Maths Challenge. We are delighted to report that the group achieved 8 silver and 19 bronze awards at national level.
We awarded a further £500 in 2016 to enable the nascent STEM club to grow. This money was used to fund various projects including a hydroelectric power generator, which was presented at our 2016 Schools' Competition and won the £200 STEM Club Award.
So after two years and a total of £1200 of STEM Club Bursary funding, Greensward Academy has a thriving STEM Club that continues to grow and with which we will continue to be involved. This is an excellent example of how the STEM Club Bursary can help a school to start and evolve a STEM Club, and we hope that this encourages other schools to apply.
We awarded a £100 STEM Club Bursary to regular attendees (and winners!) at our competition Chelmer Valley High School in 2016 to relaunch their CAD/CAM club, which specialises in the development of practical hands-on skills as well as the computer-based skills needed to design the work.
The club had had to close in 2015 due to budget cuts but we were very pleased to be able to resurrect it. We wish the club every success and look forward to working with them in the future.
True to form, CVHS put in a strong showing at our 2016 Schools' Competition and scooped a handful of awards.
We were delighted to award a £100 STEM Club Bursary to Tendring Technology College in 2014 to enable them to build a sumo wrestling robot.
The funding was used by the Tendring STEM Club to purchase parts. We awarded a further £70 in 2015 to make upgrades to the robot.
Several of Tendring's robots won prizes at the 2015 Schools' Competition.
We will shortly be announcing our programme of lectures and events for the 2016-2017 season, but in the meantime we are pleased to tell you about some events that are part of the 2016 Chelmsford Ideas Festival.
These events, in addition to My Smarter Essex on 6 October, are as follows:
Please see below for further details and links.
In case you missed the original Building the Wireless Age Marconi Exhibition (see link for photos if you did), this historic event is back for a limited time only at Sandford Mill's forthcoming open days.
Ted Sinclair has kindly loaned his replica of the Titanic Radio Room. A golden opportunity if you missed a visit to the Marconi Exhibition while it was running at Hall Street.
On the hour Tim Wander will be holding a talk about Marconi and the exhibits at the museum, and a tour of the 2MT hut.
King Edward VI Grammar School's Young Engineers Club bagged our £200 STEM Club Award at the 2015 Schools' Competition. Following an application to our STEM Club Bursary in 2016, we were very pleased to award them £100 to help them enter two teams into the 2016 VEX Robotics championships.
The funds awarded contributed towards the cost of parts for the robots and the registration fees for the second team.
Congratulations to everyone who won an award at the 2016 Schools' Competition, which took place on Friday 1 July 2016 at Anglia Ruskin University.
