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(Raspberry) Pioneers, Bright Ideas: opportunities for secondary students
The lovely people at the Raspberry Pi Foundation – the folks who spend the money made from selling all those zillions of credit-card sized computers – have launched their programme for 12-15...
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125,000 rpm centrifuge… powered by hand, made from cardboard
This is outstanding! One of the first steps in a whole host of blood tests which might be used for medical diagnosis is to ‘spin down’ the sample – to bung it in a high-speed centrifuge and whirl it...
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Goodbye Think Physics, hello NUSTEM
We’ve changed our name. We started as Think Physics in 2014, but as the project has grown we’ve come to view that name as, well, not quite right. Whilst we continue to be committed to addressing the...
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International Women in Engineering Day 2017
Today (23rd June) is International Women in Engineering Day. Across social media, companies and organisations are tweeting and posting to show their support for women in engineering. Tweets which show...
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Tetrahedral Kite, Beamish
As part of Beamish Museum’s ‘Wind in Your Sails’ event, visitors today helped us make this amazing tetrahedral kite. It’s constructed from drinking straws, survival blanket, fishing line, and tape...
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Jam on!
Whether digital making is already your jam or if you’ve never seen the bottom of a computer before, let alone the inside – all are welcome at our first Raspberry Jam on Saturday 14th October. An...
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Family Space Explorers
We’re always looking for new ways to engage different audiences, and this winter our Family Space Explorers project is doing just that. Funded by the UK Space Agency, we’re engaging young children and...
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Primary Science Coordinators’ Forum #3.1
Part of NUSTEM’s offer to primary schools in the north east is our Primary Science Coordinators’ Forum. Each half term, science leaders from primary schools across the area come to our Think Lab at...
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New opportunities: GET North resources, Whole School Gender Equality,...
If you’re the sort of person who’s involved and engaged with NUSTEM’s work, these opportunities might be right up your street: Great Exhibition of the North Teaching Resource Creators The team running...
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@NUSTEMxmas: our festive, robotic, IoT glockenspiel
Every now and then, we (Jonathan and Joe) get an idea stuck in our heads. It’s usually a ridiculous idea, an idea that should never see the light of day. But then, one of us says it out loud… We’d...
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Sci Pop: running a science pop-up shop
We’ve been running science pop-up shops for a number of years now, in shopping centres across the north-east. These community events enable us work with our “harder to reach” family audiences in ways...
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Leaky pipeline or drip irrigation system
The leaky pipeline is a recurring metaphor in discussions about the gender balance in Science (especially physical sciences), Technology, Engineering and Maths (collectively, ‘STEM’). Whether the...
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Why not Physics?
Last month, the Institute of Physics released a report called ‘Why not Physics?‘ The report looked at how many students studied A-level science subjects in different schools in 2016. The good news is...
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Plan B
Alpha Stock ImagesAs part of the ESH Building my Skills programme each year, NUSTEM staff take part in a mock interview day with students from North East secondary schools. During the day, students...
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Summer Holiday Happenings
One of the great things about working in the university, is that we get to hear about the interesting research that our colleagues do. Now you can do the same. Over the summer, our friends in...
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Tomorrow’s Engineers Week
This week is Tomorrow’s Engineers Week. Back for its sixth year, the themed week is led by Engineering UK and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and involving basically everyone else who’s big in...
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Can parents help ‘nudge’ students into choosing STEM A-levels?
When young people are asked who has provided them with careers advice and guidance, the most common answer is ‘parents and family’, followed by ‘teachers’. The Behavioural Insights Team (sometimes...
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Kate’s heading to Antarctica!
Long-term NUSTEM partners will recognise Dr. Kate Winter’s name as our sometime admin assistant, and might even have wondered where she’s disappeared to in recent months. Well, we have news: we found...
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Kate in Cape Town
Our intrepid geologist Kate has made it about as far South as is remotely reasonable to go, to Cape Town in South Africa. Of course, that’s not nearly remote enough for her, and is merely a staging...
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Kate in Antarctica!
Kate’s made it to the Princess Elisabeth Research Station, which (if you ask us) looks more like the villain’s lair in the next Bond film than anything so straightforward as a research base. Wait… are...
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