Over 50 children got hands-on at Sellafield Ltd’s Cleator Moor engineering centre learn about STEM during British Science Week. From Distington Community School and aged seven to 11, they constructed marshmallow and spaghetti towers, tried 3d printers and a drone simulator, and experimented with Lego robots and paper rockets. “It’s always a pleasure to see the kids interacting with our ...
Having been asked to demonstrate the magnetic field around a straight wire, I slipped happily into the workshop with my ancient Silva compass, only discover that the needle hardly moved with 2A through the wire. I phoned a friend – and expert in school demonstrations. Anyway, the friend said: 8A is what they use, and compasses with little needles as ...
So, does the ancient Aardware weather station work? Well, yes, after a fashion. The wind vane, it transpires, operates with three reflective optocouplers (97-002 types) staring up at white lines on a black surface giving a Gray-coded three bit output to divide wind direction into eight. There is provision for a fourth (see the link in its place), which would ...
Over 100 students attended the OSCC, held at the University of Surrey on 24 June. Seventeen teams from 11 schools created and submitted apps for the competition’s final. The event, now in its third year, was co-hosted by Red Hat, Lord Wandsworth College and the University of Surrey. Participating students were tasked with creating an app to help any local charity ...
Developed in partnership with Google, the Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab is compatible with Google Science Journal. The kit is designed to provide students with a hands-on experience, enabling them to explore forces, motion, magnetism and conductivity with their classmates. Students will make their own hypothesis, check their assumptions, and log data using Google’s Science Journal. Recommended for two classmates ...
Greenpower Educational Trust is an electric car racing scheme developed to encourage STEM learning in schools. Rolls-Royce teamed up with March CE Primary School to help with its ‘Formula Goblin’ class racer at the ‘Gathering of the Goblins’ – the car firm and school are based close together in Sussex. “We have helped March CE Primary School to design and build ...
The Finals of PA Consulting’s Schools Raspberry Pi design competition were held at the Science Museum in London this week. Intended for students from 8-20 years old in four age categories, the aim of this year’s competition was to develop products to support wellbeing and healthcare, with an emphasis on having interfaces to the real world. Electronics Weekly was there, ...
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