ECS were lucky enough to have Barton Peveril visit. The A-level students spent the day getting a tour of campus, learning about university life and getting to grips with Python. They used the Code Academy interpreter. This worked well as it helped them experiment with Python. We made number guessing game and a hangman game. …
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Sep 14
Your Life campaign Round Table Discussion
I volunteered to help the University with its ‘Your Life‘ campaign pledge. This is a government initiative to increase the numbers of young people going into STEM subjects. As part of this campaign I attended the working group round table discussion. This was very interested as there were representatives from other universities and all were …
Sep 10
Importance of STEM to economic growth.
On the 10th September I was lucky enough to go on a training course titled: ‘Importance of STEM to economic growth’. It was an interesting day with very engaging speakers. It made me more motivated to focus on the bigger picture and how the public engagement and outreach we do is contributing to solving a …
Aug 01
Erica the Rhino and Team receive VC Award & Public Engagement Award
We were really lucky for Erica and team 😉 to win a VC award in August. The award was given for: “the phenomenal success of both Erica herself, the team who developed and built her and their impact on the University’s reputation. The team hugely deserves an award for their ongoing tireless effort using Erica …
Jul 30
Electronics Headstart Summer School Success!
In July, ECS were very lucky to host the Headstart Summer School for Electronics. This took a lot of planning and patience to organise (hence my silence in June!). It was a success. We had 80 year 12 students from all around the UK to take part and they stayed in student halls, experience lectures …
May 19
Congratulations to Sturnminster Newton High School! Alumni link success !
On Friday ECS hosted the IET Faraday Challenge. We were very lucky to host it as we had to put in a proposal to host this challenge. The challenge was an aerospace challenge and involved all sorts of flying machines! Sturnminster Newton School from Blanford won the challenge this year. We want to congratulate all …
May 19
Hampshire schools took part in UK engineering challenge hosted by the University of Southampton, ECS.
Students from schools in Hampshire became real-life engineers for a day when they researched, designed and built solutions to real engineering problems. On Friday 16th May, The University of Southampton hosted the Faraday Challenge Day, provided by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Teams from Sturmeister School, Testwood School, Toynbee School, Romsey School and …
Mar 25
Erica gets a special treat on Science and Engineering Day
I bet Erica the Rhino was very happy when she was visited by one of her superfans who came to visit her. She got given a special treat. Georgie Russell was very nice and fed her some cables (erica doesn’t really eat wires. Its more for fun!). She is the daughter of Daniel Russell, a …
Mar 25
Saturday 22nd March 2014: University of Southampton Family Science and Engineering Day
We were very lucky to part of the University of Southampton’s Science and Engineering family day. The aim is to invite families to see what goes on in Science and Engineering. They get to learn about how to make slime, robotics and what happens inside the human body (amongst other things!). Its an excellent way …
Mar 20
19th March 2014: Meeting with Chris Speckman- Alumni Project
Yesterday I met with Chris Speckman who is an ECS Alumni. I worked with him on a small outreach project that we are looking to expand. Here is a summary of what happened. Chris Speckman approached Joyce Lewis in ECS to express his concern about the lack of opportunity to visit Engineering Labs for rural schools and …