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.
10:00-16:00, 6-7 August, 10 September and 23 October 2016, Sandford Mill
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.
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.
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.
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.
Congratulations to everyone who won an award at the 2016 Schools' Competition, which took place on Friday 1 July 2016 at Anglia Ruskin University.
My Smarter Essex: Thursday 6 October, 16:00-19:30, Anglia Ruskin University
Could your students design and build a city for the future using just their imagination and a mobile phone?
CSES, in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University and Essex County Council, is pleased to announce an exciting and interactive event – My Smarter Essex – where students and teachers will be able to understand, explore and simulate how their requirements and preferences can influence the design of a Future Essex.
Wednesday 22 June 2016, 19.00, Anglia Ruskin University
Announcing the next Institute of Physics (IOP) and CSES talk on the subject of Physics and the Electric Guitar with Nick Weaver.
Please see our events page for all the details.
Sat 14 – Fri 27 May 2016, Marconi Hall Street Works
As the hugely successful Building the Wireless Age exhibition continues, we are pleased to announce that the following events have been added to the programme:
- Sat 14 – Sun 15 May: Come and make a radio with CSES
- Fri 20 May: Amazing Ada: The Countess of Computers with Heidi Hards
- Fri 27 May: Riding the Radio Waves with Jane Humhpreys
These events all require booking: please follow the links above for more information.
Read more: Build a radio workshop and new talks added to Marconi programme
Thursday 5 May 2016, 19.00, Marconi Hall Street Works
Professor Danielle George, probably best known for presenting The Royal Institution 2014 Christmas Lectures, will give a talk about the impact of Marconi on the world of Radio Astronomy and the new age of instrumentation: The Square Kilometer Array (SKA).
Places are limited: book now!
Read more: Marconi and the Invisible Universe with Professor Danielle George
- Engineering Our Future with Professor Danielle George
- Building the Wireless Age: A Unique Marconi Exhibition
- CSES Annual Dinner 2016
- Lecture videos available to members
- Schools' Competition 2016: enter now
- STEM Club Bursary relaunch
- EOF2015: Security
- The 2015-2016 lecture programme is announced
- Heritage Open Days in Chelmsford: 10 - 13 September
- Essex businesses challenged to provide 500 experiences to highly-skilled youngsters