All About STEM EVENTS

All About STEM is delighted to again be working with Unilever, for a third consecutive year, to facilitate the company’s ‘Bright Futures’ Programme. We wish to invite teachers interested in finding out more about what the programme will entail, and how to get their school involved, to attend this year’s programme launch event and hear all about it, direct from Unilever staff.

Provisional Schedule

4pm – Arrival and refreshments

4.30-6pm – Introductory presentation followed by a site tour and a taster of the planned school activities

6-7pm – Buffet, networking and linking with key Unilever staff

Unilever says,
*“Through our Unilever Bright Future Programme, we will immerse you and your students in the science and technology behind some of the world’s best loved brands. Port Sunlight has been home to Unilever research and development for over 100 years in this time we have accumulated world class expertise and facilities. Over the course of this programme we will share the essence of how we deploy science, technology, engineering and mathematics in product development and take you on a journey through; the psychology of our consumers, the chemistry behind our products, the engineering feasibility of manufacturing, how we use digital advancements to aid our development and the technology behind our packaging innovations.”*

N.B. Only schools in attendance at this Teacher Twilight event will have the chance of securing a place on the programme. However, unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that all schools who attend on the evening will definitely gain a place.

If you have been involved with the Programme in previous years, a teacher representative from your school still needs to attend this year’s Teacher Twilight event to have a chance of securing a student team place for the rest of the Programme. The twilight event is a great opportunity for school staff to get an insight into one of our local businesses and to identify ways of putting curriculum into context. Please do encourage your colleagues to attend, even if they wouldn’t be involved with a student team moving forward. Perhaps the event could be used as departmental CPD?

Programme Summary

Schools will be invited to enter a team of 4 students from Y8 or 9 in a challenge, to be judged by industry leaders.

The school teams will visit the Unilever site in November, 2018, (date to be confirmed) for a day of workshops and activities, introducing them to the range of departments across the company and enabling them to understand the variety of processes involved in the production of Unilever products.

Following on from this activity, students will be set a project brief, presenting their work to Unilever staff at a judging and celebration event on site at a later date (Date to be confirmed but likely to be in March/April 2019).

Students will then have the option of submitting their project work into the National Big Bang Young Scientists and Engineers Competition heats at the Big Bang North West in July 2019, and for British Science Association CREST Award accreditation.