All About STEM EVENTS
Nuffield Research Placements – Student Information Session
This session is for Y12 students (and their parents/carers) who have begun an application, or who are interested in applying, for the 2022 Nuffield Research Placement Programme. Join us to find out more about the programme or to ask any questions you have about the application process.
Let’s Play with Lego – Operational Research Society Training
Open to ambassadors and teachers.
Operational Research (OR) is the science and art of using maths to solve problems and improve decision making. It’s ‘maths in the real world’, with applications from government, retail and sports to healthcare, finance and event planning. This session features a quick introduction to OR and the OR Society, followed by an interactive demonstration of our popular Lego Furniture Factory workshop, a fun, hands-on explanation of how OR and maths are used in real life. Finally, attendees will be told where to find all of our free teaching and volunteering resources, and how to access the support we offer teachers and volunteers.
Attendees will need:
6 rectangular/2×4 Lego bricks
8 square/2×2 Lego bricks
Worksheet to be provided/pen and paper
Increasing Access and Uptake of Vocational and Technical Education
This session will facilitate open discussion/awareness raising regarding effective transition, highlighting employer need in relation to LMI. Sharing good practice and encouraging effective collaboration with schools and colleges will be key themes. The Baker Clause Consultation will be a focus.
Suggested Audience: Careers Guidance Professionals, School Liaison Teams, Careers Leaders, Enterprise Advisers, Enterprise Coordinators.
Nuffield Research Placements – Teacher Information Session
Our All About STEM website hosts our Student Introductory and Student Application Presentations, which teachers can use to introduce their Y12 students to the Nuffield Research Placement Programme. However, we realise you may have questions you want to ask too. Join this session for the chance to speak directly to our Nuffield team.
Nuffield Research Placements – Student Information Session
This session is for Y12 students (and their parents/carers) who have begun an application, or who are interested in applying, for the 2022 Nuffield Research Placement Programme. Join us to find out more about the programme or to ask any questions you have about the application process.
Nuffield Research Placements – Provider Information Session
This session is for individuals from academia or industry who are interested in, or planning to, host a Y12 student for a 2 week Nuffield Research Placement in Summer 2022. Join us to find out more about the programme and what is involved in hosting a student placement.
Creative ways to Engage and Work with Employers
This session will focus on innovation and creativity approaches to address the challenges around increased workplace demand. FE colleges are central to the country’s social and economic recovery. This event aims to highlight the mutual benefits of close working links between colleges and employers and aims to promote further discussion.
Suggested Audience: Curriculum Leads, Apprenticeship Leads, Faculty Leads, Careers Leaders, CPD Leads, Enterprise Advisers, Enterprise Coordinators.
Careers and enrichment in primary computing with STEM Ambassadors in your region
Children begin to make decisions about their future at a young age. To keep their options open, while starting to form ideas about future careers, it is vital they have authentic experiences with those working in a range of job roles. STEM Ambassadors are volunteers ready and willing to visit your school, for free, helping to dispel stereotypes, contextualise the computing curriculum and build subject knowledge among teachers and children. Join this short CPD session and plan how to build the cultural capital of children in your school, holding open the door to opportunity and future social mobility.
Overcoming barriers to future success in computing and STEM – find out what the evidence says about how children form their ideas and aspirations, and ensure that they don’t close-off possible futures.
Role models – consider the importance of ‘meeting people like me’ in computing careers
Make authentic links to computing and the wider curriculum – benefit from the life experience and knowledge of volunteers from across the world of work, in the technology industries and in digitally-enabled roles.
Develop an simple action plan – find out how easy it is to engage with a STEM Ambassador, and to evaluate the impact they have on children.