Category: Best of the West
Over a thousand local children inspired to engineer a sustainable future
The “We Make Our Future” planetarium show has been touring local West of England schools, encouraging children to think positively about the Climate Crisis and use human ingenuity to engineer a more sustainable future. With generous funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Ingenious grant scheme, the show has inspired approximately 1,550 children in the last… Continue reading Over a thousand local children inspired to engineer a sustainable future
DETI Inspire Engages Kids with Engineering at South Gloucestershire Libraries
During November, the DETI Inspire team at UWE Bristol headed into 11 different South Gloucestershire libraries to deliver engineering career workshops to local school groups. This was part of a scheme to help encourage local children to get more use out of their libraries. The team took along local STEM Ambassadors and Student helpers from… Continue reading DETI Inspire Engages Kids with Engineering at South Gloucestershire Libraries
UWE and Aerospace Bristol hosted local schools for free STEM day trips!
The DETI Inspire team at UWE Bristol collaborated with Air League, the UK’s leading aviation and aerospace charity, who generously supported the free delivery of Aerospace Engineering days out for 16 classes from schools in the South West. Hundreds of kids experienced Bristol’s excellent aviation history at Aerospace Bristol, before streaming into UWE’s new School… Continue reading UWE and Aerospace Bristol hosted local schools for free STEM day trips!
Curious Stories return to Bristol!
October was the long awaited return of Bristol’s Storytale Festival – and with it Curiosity Connections very own initiative “Curious Stories for Curious Children”. We deployed “Curious Stories for Curious Children” at the first festival in 2019 with great success – children and parents all loved hearing the fun science-stereotype challenging stories and then quizzing… Continue reading Curious Stories return to Bristol!
Lego Robots deployed in the community
Guest blog by Wing (Natalie) Leung, 1st year Robotics student at UWE Bristol. Natalie describes delivering the Lego Mindstorm session that Luca Caruso (another intern) and herself designed and developed during the course of their internship. This was the first time the Lego Mindstorms session was run – thank you so much to the old… Continue reading Lego Robots deployed in the community
Family Fun day at UWE’s Engineering
At the end of June, families from around Bristol piled into UWE’s brand new School of Engineering building to enjoy a range of free science and engineering-based activities. The event was held in conjunction with a showcase of local children’s engineering inventions all shortlisted in the Leaders Award Competition. Over 500 people attended, getting to… Continue reading Family Fun day at UWE’s Engineering
Emerging engineers celebrated at UWE
On Friday 24th June, UWE Engineering hosted the showcase and awards ceremony for the South West regional Leaders Award competition – celebrating young people’s inventions designed to solve the world’s problems. “Engineering is everywhere!” said Professor Elena Marco, Pro Vice-Chancellor & Head of College at UWE. Elena co-presented the awards to winners from each age category, alongside… Continue reading Emerging engineers celebrated at UWE
Local pupils share their science and LEGO creations at UWE
Teams of pupils from across the West were invited to be LEGO engineers and STEM investigators at UWE Bristol recently, and share their projects at a celebration event in the new School of Engineering building. The pupils brought together so many great ideas and presented them to the other teams, before engaging with several STEM… Continue reading Local pupils share their science and LEGO creations at UWE
Local Schools Take on Sustainable Transport Challenge
On 23rd May, 97 local pupils from Years 5 – 9 visited UWE Bristol to share their solutions to the ‘Sustainable Transport Challenge’. The groups were challenged to invent a sustainable vehicle to go on a significant journey of their choice – inspired by the all female rowing group – the Bristol Gulls who rowed… Continue reading Local Schools Take on Sustainable Transport Challenge
Local school pupils digitally re-engineer Brunel’s famous designs, before exploring the real thing!
Over 150 children and counting from schools across the West have enjoyed a long-overdue trip to the School of Engineering and the Clifton Suspension Bridge. In partnership with the Clevedon Learning Trust, the DETI Inspire team have invited local children to the School of Engineering at UWE Bristol, to dive into some digital engineering with their West… Continue reading Local school pupils digitally re-engineer Brunel’s famous designs, before exploring the real thing!
