Ask a STEM Ambassador to visit your school

A STEM Ambassador's involvement can engage and enthuse both students and teachers. If you are interested in asking a STEM Ambassador to visit your school you can make your request here or contact See Science directly here

Give us your Ambassador feedback

If an Ambassador has visited your school, or if you have met an Ambassador at an enrichment activity, we would be very grateful if you could fill in our teacher feedback form. Please encourage colleagues to respond.

Wales Coding Challenge hosted by DVLA Swansea

Over the last months Primary and Secondary Schools across Wales have worked on building a computer game based on a theme set by the DVLA and associate partners. Teams could select from:

• Preventing Fire Hazards in the home

• Identifying and avoiding Cyber Crime

• Life on Planet Gaia

• Air Ambulance transfer

• Plastic pollution

• Earthquake response

The final was a high energy event with over 250 pupils attending from as far away as Conwy and Llanidloes to Usk and Caerleon.

The final was hosted by Lucy Owen of BBC Wales - each team accompanied by a DVLA STEM Ambassador was interviewed before a live vote and judging panel (X-Factor style!)
STEM Ambassadors Karen Pitt and Mark Jones are to be congratulated for their diligent work on this successful project.

Congratulations to

• The Cathedral School Cardiff winning the Secondary School category for Identifying Cyber Crime Game

• Blaenbaglan Primary School,  Port Talbot winning the Primary category with the theme Life on Planet Gaia

Your Green Future. Powys

North Powys pupils were welcomed to Cefn Lea Park near Newtown to experience the second Your Green Futures event. Students from five local secondary schools engaged in workshops, talks and a career pathways exhibition, all designed to ignite their interest in sustainability, green energy and STEM-related skills.

The event formed part of the Severn Wye's Our Future's People project, which encourages pupils to help reduce their schools'  energy use. Pupils from Newtown, Llanidloes, John Beddoes and Llanfyllin, all spent the day working with local businesses including Oil4Wales, Swansea University, Siemens and Welsh Water. STEM Ambassadors presented workshops, worked with pupils and provided advice and support to the pupils and their teachers.

STEM Ambassador Cara Bennett commented: "I have really enjoyed meeting the pupils, they are so keen to find out more about STEM careers. This kind of event is very useful, as it gives pupils a real insight into the possibilities available in Powys".
The students attending were encouraged to think about what careers are available locally, they were guided to ask each employer a range of questions about what interested them most about their job and what they wanted to be when they were young. Conversely, the businesses were encouraged to pick students to employ based on their questions and interest in the company.
For more information about the Your Green Future events go to this link

Swansea Science Festival

The evening network on the 5^thDecember welcomed teachers from Ysgol Dewi Sant, Henry Tudor School, Milford Haven School together with 14 STEM Ambassadors.

Ambassador Peter Philips delivered a short session on how he presents his career in the Oil Industry to Secondary Pupils, teacher Edward Male (Henry Tudor School) demonstrated practical activities which he uses at his STEM Clubs. The session focussed on a discussion of local employment skills, specific needs in the area and how to access ideas for engagement and resources.
Based on the success of the Pembrokeshire event STEM Networking events will be held at Techniquest, Cardiff  and  The Parkway Hotel Cwmbran  in February. For more information please go here 

Chemistry in the Community 

For more  information about booking a Chemistry in the Community workshop please contact Llinos at llinos.misra@see-science.co.uk

Crest Discovery Days

We currently have funding from CREST to offer a limited number of workshops to schools in Wales to support teachers to run a Discovery Day with KS2-3 pupils. Details as follows:

·        We will lead teachers to run a CREST Discovery Day 

·        2 hour teacher CPD on running CREST Discovery Days in the future 

·        We must have at least 120 pupils on the day - this can be from Year 5 and 6 or you are welcome to partner with other local schools

·        Ideally the schools should have a high % FSM

·        Discovery Day must take place before the end of March

Schools will have a choice of theme for the day - some Discovery Days have a Welsh element while others focus on Global Citizenship.

For more details or to invite us to come to your school, please contact Llinos at llinos.misra@see-science.co.uk

Bangor  14 January 2019 4.30pm

Newport 22 January 2019. 4.30pm

 Applications have to be made in partnership with a STEM professional so now is the perfect time to find your partner and start thinking about ideas. The scheme is open to any primary or secondary school in the UK. More information about the scheme can be found on the Royal Society's website and if you have any questions, please contact education@royalsociety.org.