Name: Reena Pau
Date registered: October 25, 2013
Feb 02
A couple weeks ago we launched a contest to see if we can fund science day activities. 6 activities have been chosen, original brief was for 2 but we found 6 that were related to impact. Congratulations to the following: 1. Lenka Pitonakova & Seth Bullock: Project Name: ŒThe Hive Mind¹: Decentralised construction in a form …
Jan 30
Eric Cooke and I were invited to Bryanston school. I talked about careers in Maths and Science. Eric talked about future careers in technology, looking at the consequences of what would happen if tech took over a world and grew a brain of its own. The students really enjoyed the discussion.
Jan 28
We were very excited to welcome King Edwards school to the department. They were taking part a an experiment for Mandy about maths and handwriting. They were shown round the labs and also had a session on wearable technology. It was a great day and we enjoyed showing them around.
Jan 26
I was lucky enough to be invited to Bett 2015 to be part of a panel session, chaired by Maggie Philbin. The discussion points were: * confidence * experience * perceptions It was an interesting panel and the audience gave us some fabulous questions!
Jan 23
I was introduced to Hayling Island School by an alumni. It was interesting learning about Hayling Island’s East/West divide. We have said that we will be inviting the head teacher to our womens day event and science and engineering day. This is a great school with great students. I look forward to us building up …
Jan 22
I had a good time meeting with Elbrie who is the centre co-ordinator for our Southampton YRS (Young Rewired state) group. Its a group aimed at 12+ to get them into technology and coding. We were talking about plans and how to launch CoderDojo which is a group for under 12s to get them enthused …
Jan 21
I was very lucky to be able to go to Bett 2015. Its a huge convention with lots of learning technology tools. It has everything from tech for languages to learning maths. I went to this with my work experience student and his teacher. The interesting stands at Bett were: * Bee Bot : these …
Jan 15
In our January Athena Swan meeting we discussed that we would need to have a critical review of where we were in the Athena Swan Process. As well as other factors of how to influence higher female participation in computing. We also discussed an upcoming seminar by Lynda Hardman. Another point of discussion was making …
Jan 08
Today we had a group from Applemore school visiting us. The visit was organised by Dr John Woollard. He did the visit as part of his PGCE teaching. It was interesting as he taught constraint programming (interesting computer science topic) in Scratch. It was interesting to hear about this. He taught a complex topic using …
Dec 04
On Friday 4th December, Barton Peveril College hosted a STEM day that ECS was proud to be part of. We held a session on careers in STEM. The event had a 50:50 gender split. There were approximately 240 pupils taking part and eight different activities including engineering, maths and computing. Part of my talk was …
