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APRIL 17, 2024

Students can use their Faraday Challenge experience to achieve a CREST Award! IET Faraday® Challenge Days are cross-curricular STEM activity days designed for Year 8 students in England and Wales, S1/S2 students in Scotland and Year 9 students in Northern Ireland.

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APRIL 12, 2024

Place bright young people at the heart of your organisation by hosting a 5-day Experience or 2-week Research Placement. You can work with top students to make significant contributions to your research and development projects. Placements are offered to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to increase opportunities to access university courses and STEM-related careers.

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APRIL 5, 2024

The Liverpool City Region Careers Hub offers over 80 resources in their employer series, Creating Careers. Creating Careers allows students to explore some of the exciting and interesting career pathways Liverpool City Region has to offer. Each film includes student resources to complete before, during and after each session.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Amazing Apprenticeships offer monthly downloadable information booklets for parents or carers. If you’re looking to advise your teens about career options, these are perfect for you!

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APRIL 4, 2024

IChemE Thames Valley Members Group is inviting Y9-11 students to enter their competition by writing an essay on AI! “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative technologies of our time with the potential to revolutionalise our world if used properly.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Alongside STEM Learning’s STEM Community for educators, STEM Ambassadors can join their own Community to come together, find support and share ideas! “As a member, you can collaborate, ask for advice, share best practice and discover new ways to inspire young people with other volunteers, wherever they are in the UK.

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APRIL 4, 2024

All About STEM is the Research Placement and Experience Coordinator for the North West, covering Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. Our role is to recruit and support businesses and academic institutions to host Y12 students to undertake research placements or experiences.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Spring is here – YES! It’s the perfect time for outdoor learning so we’ve brought together a list of CREST activities that fit the bill. (Don’t worry, most are great for indoors too – in case it rains!) CREST is a STEM enrichment programme for young people that inspires, enables and rewards open-ended project work.

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MARCH 18, 2024

If you’re an employer or organisation with STEM ambassadors, you can bring your volunteers together online via the STEM Ambassadors Community. The forum is the perfect place to create a group for you and your ambassadors to plan, chat, get feedback, brainstorm ideas and share resources.

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MARCH 12, 2024

There’s still time to book your school slot for a British Science Week STEM ambassador webinar! These sessions are perfect to stream in class. BSW 2024: Animals & Fossils! (KS2/7-11) BSW 2024: Met Police present Biometrics – Past, Present & Future (KS3&4) BSW 2024: Engineering Storytime! (EY&KS1/4-7) Don’t forget to check out the upcoming ‘my job as…’ events too.

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MARCH 6, 2024

The Research Placement and Experience Programme (formerly known as Nuffield Placements) has been around for more than 25 years and is managed nationally by STEM Learning. The programme allows Y12 students to make a meaningful contribution towards the work of a host organisation.

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MARCH 6, 2024

The Science Leadership Benchmarks were developed by STEM Learning and were based on an independent review of research and evidence led by the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE). “Every young person deserves a great science education, empowering them to explore, question, and understand the natural world.

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MARCH 4, 2024

If your school is participating in The Great Science Share on the 11th of June 2024, check out their NEW guided enquiries and enrichment activities. There are lots of different themes for your learners to choose from – great for the lead-up to the big day! Teachers’ notes, videos and links to resources are included.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Open for entries: The All About STEM Competition! (Ages 9-16) The All About STEM Competition, sponsored by Unilever aims to open up the world of STEM to young people across the North West by inviting them to ‘develop a new product, item, idea or approach which solves a problem facing our world or the people in it.’ And this year it’s all about FOOD!

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

If you’re looking to advise your teens about career options, Amazing Apprenticeships offer monthly downloadable information booklets for parents or carers. The February Parent Pack includes highlights of National Apprenticeship Week, apprenticeships in teaching, new higher and degree apprenticeship vacancy listings, qualifications, functional skills, career pathways and more!

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Mark your calendars for the 11th of June 2024! The Great Science Share for Schools is the award-winning campaign that invites 5-14 year olds to share their own scientific questions and investigations, to raise the profile of science in schools and communities, and inspire young people into science and engineering.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

We recommend CREST on our All About STEM Competition Resources page alongside a host of partner activities as there are so many inspirational projects for all ages. Our competition is all about designing a new product, idea, item, or approach that solves a problem and this year the theme is food. If you’re looking for a starting point, there are lots of CREST resources on that theme.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Event Date: 24 April 16:00 Join STEM Learning online for a 45-minute introduction to the STEM Ambassador Programme to find out how you can get involved in valuable STEM outreach. By sharing your knowledge, experiences and skills with young people, you can inspire and equip learners to consider and follow STEM pathways and careers, and challenge stereotypes and inequalities.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Have you entered The All About STEM Competition yet? We love nothing more than to hear back from our amazing All About STEM Competition entrants, especially those with ingenious ideas! Our competition is all about solving real-world problems with creative solutions and our 2023 Junior Winner did just that. In fact, when it came to innovation and creativity he went above and beyond!

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Fantastic news! The BBC micro:bit playground survey has launched! Primary learners can use their micro:bits outdoors to survey their playground as part of a national citizen science project. There are 7 fun activities to choose from and it’s an exciting chance to contribute to the survey’s results that will be published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in Autumn 2024!

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

T Levels are an alternative to A levels, apprenticeships and other 16 to 19 courses, and include an in-depth industry placement. They are equivalent in size to 3 A levels, focus on vocational skills and can help students into skilled employment, higher study or apprenticeships.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Perfect for National Careers Week 2024! The Careers & Enterprise Company, has brought together a series of career talks from young people for young people. The collection focuses on the transition from education to work, preparing for work experience and the working world. All clips cover a range of sectors, ages (19-25), experiences and transition points.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Amazing news! CREST has just released a NEW Early Years Resource Pack! The Earth & Beyond booklet is packed with fun, physics-focused activities for children in EYFS upwards.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Our Six Week STEM Club Resources are great for new clubs, established clubs and short-term clubs that want to offer exciting, enriching sessions. The 6 Week STEM Club Programme can be repeated every half-term with different students which means more time to engage a wider range of young people and less time needed to resource or plan.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

PROMYS Europe is a challenging six-week residential mathematics summer programme at the University of Oxford. The programme is designed to encourage mathematically ambitious students aged 16+ to explore the creative world of mathematics.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Liverpool are offering a Free Spring Lecture, suitable for Y11 – Y13, teachers and the public. ‘Fantastical Modes and How to Find Them’ by Finn Allison “We hunt a two-fanged finite shape-shifter made from masses, point-like, and springs, linear.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

National Careers Week is a celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education taking place across the UK from the 4th to the 9th of March. The aim is to provide a focus on careers activities at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people leaving education.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Educators and STEM Ambassadors can access STEM Learning’s free Community platform to connect with peers, find resources, discuss best practice and share ideas. STEM Ambassadors Community STEM Ambassadors can join the STEM Ambassadors Community to collaborate, ask for advice and discover new ways to inspire young people with other volunteers, wherever they are in the UK.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Can your students design a trustworthy machine or build an app for good? If you’re a teacher looking for project ideas, CREST offers an amazing range of resources for ages 5-19! For secondary students, the Bronze Grand Challenges are a great place to start.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

All About STEM proudly partners with the Merseyside Police Cyber Challenge to encourage cyber skills development among students aged 11-18! “You are invited to compete against other students from Merseyside to test your Cyber skills in this year’s Cyber Challenge. Every student aged 11-18 is eligible to take part online.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This Is Me – I’m A STEM Ambassador Teachers and STEM ambassadors can get involved with the ‘This Is Me’ programme via the STEM Learning website or STEM Ambassadors Community.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Love is in the air! Valentine’s Day is coming and we have a CREST project that can help promote happiness and well-being to learners and their loved ones. Your students can earn a CREST Award and have great fun making their own bath bombs. Take on the challenge and create the best bath bomb with the fizziest eruption! Try different colours, ingredients and blends.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Safer Internet Day 2024 is just around the corner, don’t forget to download your resource packs from the UK Safer Internet Centre! The resources focus on this year’s Safer Internet Day theme of Inspiring change – making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online. Packs are split into four age groups covering 3-18 years.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Calling all STEM Ambassadors! You could win a 2-night stay for 2 in York and have your resource or activity featured in STEM Learning’s Online Resource Library! To enter STEM Learning’s Competition, all you have to do is share one of your exciting STEM activity ideas or a resource that you have designed. It really is that simple.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Event Date: 8 February 5-8pm Visit the STFC Daresbury Laboratory Apprenticeship Open Evening to learn about the range of apprenticeship opportunities available as well as the chance to meet their apprenticeship team, supervisors and current apprentices. STFC are running Open Evenings at Daresbury Laboratory and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

The Amazing Apprenticeships team have created a collection of videos, slides and easy-reads to introduce and explain Higher Technical Qualifications. Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs) are level 4 and level 5 qualifications, such as Higher National Certificates, Higher National Diplomas and Foundation Degrees.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

The Into Film Awards promises to be a fantastic celebration of young filmmaking talent from across the UK! If you’re a creative young person (5-19) who loves animation or filmmaking, all you need to do is check the categories and criteria, and choose which one is best for your film. Whether you have created a film or are making something new, enter the awards and showcase your talent.

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