I’m Chair of a charity which as been awarded an EEGS grant to enable us to put on a series of STEM workshops May-December this year in our local public library. I am looking for IET members who would be willing to donate some time as part of this programme of events, so that the children taking part in the workshops can meet real-life engineers working in the fields we’ll be exploring, and ask them questions.
A bit more about us:
FOLIO Sutton Coldfield (http://foliosuttoncoldfield.org.uk/) supports the public libraries in Sutton Coldfield (North Birmingham) by putting on a programme of events to encourage people to visit the library. We are an entirely volunteer run organisation.
We recently received a EEGS grant for 20 workshops that will focus on inventions and discoveries that led to or contributed to the moon landing and inventions or discoveries that have resulted from the first moon landing c.f.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/50-years-50-giant-leaps-how-nasa-rocked-our-world-879377.html
We're after some real life engineers and inventors in the following fields:
Food technology
Cars
Safety devices
Medical equipment
Computers/technology
Weather detection / natural disasters
Space
to join as at our science workshops for children (8-12 year olds). As one aspect of these hand-on, fun workshops we want the children to meet people who work in the fields of science we're exploring, in the hope that they are further inspired to learn more and perhaps consider it as a career choice.
We have some funding to cover travel expenses, and we're after engineers/inventors who would enjoy talking to children about what they do, for just 10-20 minutes as a one-off (though if the engineers/inventors would like stay for the whole 2 hour workshop on any given topic that would potentially be possible).The engineer will no be expected to prepare anything, but simply to attend and be willing to be interviewed/asked questions about their job by the children for about 15-20 minutes.
Please contact chair@foliosuttoncoldfield.org.uk
