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Tomorrow’s Engineers EEP Robotic Challenge
The Robotic Challenge is a curriculum-linked programme run by Tomorrow’s Engineers that sees students (11-14) working together in teams to solve real-world engineering, technology and computing...
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British Science Week. That’s all for now, folks!
Each March, British Science Week celebrates the awesomeness of science, technology, engineering and maths. Over this year’s week, from 11th – 18th March, Think Physics joined in the fun by opening up...
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View the transit of Mercury on 9th May
This May will provide us with a fantastic opportunity to observe a transit of Mercury. It should be possible to view the eclipse from your school or home, but we will need to keep our fingers crossed...
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Computer training opportunities in Newcastle
Two outstanding computing events are coming to Newcastle in the next few weeks: Picademy The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s flagship teacher training experience, Picademy is a two-day extravaganza of all...
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Watch this marble run with magnets
Brilliantly inventive. See if you can work out how all the different mechanisms work – there are some amazing and subtle ideas in here. Great stuff. Tip of the hat to Joe for spotting this as it hit...
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Northumbria students: apply for our engineering summer placement scheme
We’re delighted to invite applications from Northumbria University students for an eight-week summer placement scheme. See the Word document below for details, but in brief: Eight week placement from...
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A-Level Physics teachers: your thoughts welcome
A few months ago, we made a film of an A-level core practical: measuring g via the free-fall method. Many teachers responded to our invitation to comment, and to our shameless request for...
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Turns out motor racing might be useful after all
The Formula 1 Championship is a strange beast. I’m not alone in having become thoroughly bored with the political wranglings around it, and I’ve drifted far enough away that I no longer even recognise...
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Engineering principles: keep it simple
We’re developing a neat little workshop based around catapults, bits of which have sneaked out into the world in test events over the last couple of months. The core of the challenge is the simplest...
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How long would it take to fall through the Earth?
This is a classic calculation, and one that’s surprisingly tricky: suppose you could bore a hole all the way through the Earth. If you jumped in, how long would it take you to fall through and come...
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Brain exercise for half term: P vs. NP
If you’ve reached the stage of half-term where binge-watching iZombie, staring out of the window at the miserable weather, or playing yet another round of Overwatch just aren’t doing it for you, try...
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Study with us! PhD Studentship available
Think Physics’ host institution Northumbria University has a PhD studentship available. Here’s the title: Impact of Academic Research through Northumbria’s STEM outreach activities on the uptake of...
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Go Ballistic! winners at Big Bang North East
Phew! We’re slowly recovering from a couple of crazy days at the Big Bang North East. We spun patterns and collected hopes and dreams for future tech with the Technology Wishing Well; explored the...
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This shape-changing visual effects car can… wait, what?
Suppose you’re trying to make a car advert, you’re up against tight deadlines, but you don’t actually have the car you’re supposed to be filming. What do you do? This sort of scenario is more common...
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Physics Summer Schools
In my previous job, I used to be part of a team that ran teacher summer schools for the Institute of Physics. These were aimed at teachers who were not specialist teachers of physics, but who had to...
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Chain Reactions (with electronics)
Like everyone else delivering ‘maker’ education, we use chain reaction machines in some of our workshops. There’s a lot of fun to be had, and some intriguing mechanisms to be discovered. But there are...
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Raspberry Pi Day of Making: Apply now!
The Raspberry Pi Foundation (the lovely folks who spend the money brought in by those tiny computers we all love so much) are gearing up to launch a new programme for teenagers. As part of the...
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Summer holiday science
At this stage in the summer holiday, sometimes it can get a bit harder to find new things to do with the kids. However, the Royal Institution might just come to your rescue! They’ve produced a series...
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Careers in the (primary) classroom?
There have been some news articles recently about universities, primary schools and careers. In the first article, Teach First recently called for universities to work with primary schools as part of...
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Win a Free Astronomy Trip to the Alps
The European Southern Observatory is organising an Astronomy Camp at the beautiful (if awkwardly-named) Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley, in the Italian Alps. It’s...
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