Education United Kingdom Project #19391

Mission to Mars! Engaging young people in STEM

Project Report | Mar 20, 2017
Fun and productive half term for Generating Genius

By Abigail | Project Manager

In February, Generating Genius students took part in a number of challenging half-term workshops to develop their knowledge of science, maths and STEM careers. It was a great week with record attendances and an over subscription for our univeristy visits.

On Tuesday, at the stunning Salesforce Tower, students debated 'big data”, learned ‘how science works’ and met with employees across the business at Salesforce, who are one of our fantastic corporate supporters. It was great for students to get an insight into how STEM skills can be applied in the working world and see how important they are for certain roles.

Later in the week year 11 students tackled maths' unsolved puzzles, as introduced by Dr Katie Steckles from Think Maths. This included the 'Four Colour Theorum', which made a seemingly straightforward colouring in exercise into something far more challenging! Students also created logic gates to discover how computers 'think' and made 'domino computers' to test them out. We finished with 'fractals', which really caught students' imagination as Dr Katie explained how she was part of a team that made the 'MegaMenger' - possibly the biggest fractal in the world!

King’s College London hosted a hands-on Clinical Skills session, in which students learned basic medical skills from current undergraduates and were able to ask questions about life at university. We ended the week with a workshop and campus tour at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London in which students were challenged to derive Einstein's famous E=mc2 equation!

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Organization Information

Generating Genius

Location: London - United Kingdom
Website: http://www.generatinggenius.org.uk
Facebook: Facebook Page
Twitter: @generatingg

Project Leader:
Tony Sewell
South Croydon , Surrey United Kingdom

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