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First Light in a Dark Room
Dominic and Paul inspect our first imagesPhotography with the CACOON camera is trial and error.Washing our best imagesTest #3 in the Fixing BathPaul retrieves our over-exposed first image from the...
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First conNecTed device prototypes
Our friends from the Life Science Centre visited us today, and we spent the day hacking with cardboard and servo motors to make these puppets. We’re terribly proud of them. These are the first three...
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STEM jobs at Museums Northumberland
NUSTEM have been collaborating with Museums Northumberland this year and they have two new projects starting, both of which have a number of new jobs available. The first project, Union Chain Bridge:...
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Tales of Engineering – making magnificent things with children and their...
After a few months of developing our website and getting our engineers to think about their research bookmarks (yes we have awesome bookmarks) we finally started to take our engineers to schools. One...
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Kate back in Antarctica
Last year, we followed Dr. Kate Winter’s trip to the Princess Elisabeth Research Station in Antarctica. A year later she’s back, and already a week behind schedule as wind and snow made it too risky...
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Airbus GEDC Diversity Award – Shortlisted
It’s not just us who bang on about diversity in the engineering workplace — some of the really big players in the sector do too. Organisations like: Airbus. They might be best-known for their...
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Shortlisted – UK Career Development Awards
Friends of NUSTEM will know that we have been supporting primary teachers with careers in the classroom for many years. It can sometimes feel challenging for teachers to know what careers in STEM...
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Theory of Change paper published
You might have noticed common threads appearing through our work over the last few years. Behind the scenes, we’ve been working towards the development of an overall theory of change to guide our...
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#2 Look Up!
Meet Rocket, a young scientist with her heart set on the stars! We welcomed back many of our families for the second Me, You and Science Too story: Look Up! The story is about a young girl who spends...
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NUSTEM COVID-19 Update
NUSTEM COVID-19 Update Unfortunately, due to the covid-19 situation, NUSTEM has had to cancel all workshops and external activities for the time being. We’re currently exploring how we can run our...
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Garageband
This is mostly a post to test that things work, but since we’re here: if you happen to have an iPad kicking around, Garageband (free download) is amazing. This is my 4 year-old getting properly...
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As the world changes and we all adapt to our new realities, NUSTEM are working hard to make sure we continue to support our partner schools. It’s clear there’s a wealth of activities out there, and...
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Antarctica Day – 5th June 2020
Northumbria researcher and NUSTEM stalwart Dr. Kate Winter is joining a day of celebration of the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica. Organised by our friends at the Festival of Nature,...
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Gearing up for remote workshops
As our partner primary schools well know, the sharp end of NUSTEM starts with in-school workshops. We do many other things, but workshops are a key part of us meeting and working with schools and...
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NUSTEM Annual Report 19/20
I’m a big fan of Christmas Round Robin letters. I really enjoy reading about what people have been doing over the past year, and sharing their celebrations and sometimes empathising with their...
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Teaching Careers in Primary School
Our research at NUSTEM has shown that children have very gendered ideas about what jobs they want to do even before they leave primary school. We’ve been supporting primary school teachers to include...
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Maximising impact of STEM outreach
There are many, many organisations that want to increase diversity in STEM (Science, technology, engineering and maths). To help coordinate efforts and maximise impact, Engineering UK have recently...
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