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 Presidential Dinner, Thursday 28 April 2016, 7.00 for 7.30 pm, The Warren Golf & Country Club

We are pleased to welcome members and their guests to our 2016 President's Dinner, and are now accepting bookings.

With a great menu and our speaker Professor David Humber (Provost of Anglia Ruskin University's Chelmsford Campus) due to deliver a talk intriguingly entitled Infectious diseases I'd rather not catch again!, this promises to be an excellent evening.

Read more: CSES Annual Dinner 2016

Videos of two of our most high-profile lectures are now available exclusively to CSES members.

We have uploaded the recordings of the following events:

• Making Waves: How Marconi's Wireless Legacy Takes us Ever Further Into Space (an exciting and well-attended talk by Marconi's grandson himself, Professor Francesco Paresce Marconi)
• Birth of the Signalling War: The Marconi Company's key role in WW1 (by the renowned Dr Elizabeth Bruton, a world-leading expert on the history of the Marconi Company, who gave a special talk in Chelmsford on this very subject)

If you are not yet a member, visit our membership section to find out how to join or register.

Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition, Friday 1 July, Anglia Ruskin University

We are very pleased to announce that our 2016 Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition is open for entries.

• The competition will take place on Friday 1 July 2016
• The awards evening will take place on Wednesday 20 July 2016

Please note that the awards evening has moved from a Thursday to a Wednesday, as we hope that more people will be free on this evening.

See our school events listings to add these to your calendar.

Find out how to enter the competition here.

Read more: Schools' Competition 2016: enter now

We are excited to announce the relaunch of our STEM Club Bursary.

We have introduced a simpler online application form to make it easier than ever to apply.

We are actively seeking applications for this year, particularly from schools with whom we’ve had little involvement in the past.

Read others' success stories to see how we could help you.

Set up in 2015 in collaboration with Essex Community Foundation, the STEM Club Bursary is a funding package made available by CSES to local schools to support the start-up and growth of STEM clubs and extracurricular STEM activities.

Find out more and apply online.

Engineering Our Future: Wednesday 4 November, 16.00 for 16.30, Anglia Ruskin University

Engineering Our Future is back with a particularly exciting topic: Security, which will feature some live demonstrations!