This year the Chelmsford Civic Society is co-ordinating the Heritage Open Days on behalf of the City Council. These take place between Thursday the 10th and Sunday the 13th of September. Nationally the Heritage Open Days is managed by the National Trust. Last year the sites that were open attracted over three million people. All events are free.
A forward-thinking initiative from Essex County Council is helping plug the gap of highly-skilled workers in the science, technology and engineering sectors in Britain today.
Damning findings from a recent Confederation of British Industry report have revealed more than half of employers fear they will not be able to recruit enough high-skilled workers.
In an attempt to address this, four years ago (2011), Essex County Council launched the Education and Industry STEM programme to directly target shortages in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Congratulations to everyone who won an award at the 2015 Schools' Competition, which took place on Friday 26 June 2015 at Anglia Ruskin University.
We are very pleased to announce that the 2015 CSES Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition is open for entry. Submit your project now!
We are very excited to announce the addition of a talk to our programme, entitled Birth of the Signalling War: The Marconi Company's key role in WW1, by Dr Elizabeth Bruton of the University of Oxford.
In collaboration with e2v, IET and exploreSTEM, we are hosting an all-day workshop for people to learn how to control and monitor electronics with a Raspberry Pi computer.
We are pleased to announce the addition of another lecture to our 2014/2015 programme, organised by the Institute of Physics (IOP).
The talk, by Dr Helen Mason from the University of Cambridge, review what we have learnt about the active Sun, in particular what we know (and don't yet know!) about solar active regions and flares, and how this solar activity affects the Earth's environment.
Save the date! The annual Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition will be taking place on Friday 26 June 2015 (approximately 1000-1500), and the Awards Evening on Thursday 16 July 2015 (approximately 1900-2100), both at Anglia Ruskin University.
We will be contacting schools directly with more information in the coming weeks; in the meantime if you would like more information please contact us.
We are pleased to advise that the photos from our workshop, Build a working alarm system with a Raspberry Pi, are now available.
The event was held at the Chelmsford Ideas Hub on 2 November 2014, as part of the Ideas Festival.
We are pleased to announce that the 2014-2015 lecture series – arranged in collaboration with our partners the IET, IMechE and IoP – is finalised.
This year's programme includes an exciting talk by Professor Paresce Marconi (the grandson of Guglielmo Marconi). Book now for free to secure your seats!
Further details of the 2014-2015 calendar can be found in the Events section.
