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
EOF2016, Thursday 5 May 2016, 15.30, Marconi Hall Street Works
CSES is delighted to announce a unique opportunity, as part of our Engineering Our Future series, for local school students to see and hear Professor Danielle George at the original Marconi factory in Hall Street.
Danielle is probably best known for presenting The Royal Institution 2014 Christmas Lectures.
Places are limited: book now!
Read more: Engineering Our Future with Professor Danielle George
Hall Street, Open 11 March to 29 May 2016, every Saturday and Sunday 11am-3pm, FREE ENTRY
To celebrate the history and legacy of Marconi and the Marconi Company in Chelmsford, a free commemorative event entitled Marconi: Building the Wireless Age will be hosted over a period of three months in the original Grade II listed Marconi Factory in Hall Street prior to its conversion into residential and commercial units.
CSES will be running hands-on Science and Engineering activities and a series of talks have been organised (pre-booking is required).
Archival material from a variety of sources will be showcased, in many cases for the first time. Contributors include The International Marconi Museum in Bologna, The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Essex Records Office, Chelmsford Museums and several private collections. Local families with their own small collections of Marconi-related memorabilia have also contributed.
Read more: 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
- 2015 Competition results
- Addition to the lecture programme: Our Dynamic Sun