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Wider community events archive
2012
May
09 May: Spectroscopy in A Suitcase Training Sessions, School of Chemistry, Bristol
Elle Wadsworth spent the day giving two training sessions to a total of 9 STEM Ambassadors from Bristol's School of Chemistry on the RSC's Spectroscopy in a Suitcase (SiS) equipment. The trained postgraduate chemists will be using the equipment as part of visits to schools in the region during 2012. For more information please see here.
April
30 April: Primary Outreach Training, University of Bradford
Tim Harrison and Sarah Glover trained two members of the University of Bradford STEM team in the use of Bristol ChemLabS workshop practicals to teach, excite and enthuse KS2 primary pupils.
16 April: Access to STEM Subjects and the Third Sector Meeting, @-Bristol, Bristol
Tim Harrison represented Bristol ChemLabS at this inaugural meeting. The group of academics, educators from @-Bristol and a software company representative is exploring how to more effectively engage with 'hard-to-reach' students who have the aptitude to go to university.
March
26 March: STEM Ambassador Training, Bristol ChemLabS
Claire Dimond (Graphic Science) made another visit to Bristol ChemLabS to train a further group of 10 postgraduate scientists as part of the STEM Ambassador project.
19 March: Developing the Virtual Laboratory at the University of Durham
Jenny Slaughter was awarded a HEA Travel Fund to attend and speak at the HEA meeting.
More details of the meeting can be found here
February
15 February: Spectroscopy for UWE's PGCE Chemistry Students
7 PGCE students and three staff members from the University of the West of England came to Bristol ChemLabS to attend a short course on Spectroscopy. The students were introduced to the 'Spectroscopy in a Suitcase' materials and to look at the teaching of infra red, mass spectrometry, uv visible spectroscopy and NMR within Post 16 chemistry courses.
This event was sponsored by The RSC's and HE-STEM's Spectroscopy in a Suitcase project .
10 February: Demonstration Training for Senior Students, Rhodes, University, South Africa
Tim Harrison spent the morning delivering the lecture demonstration 'A Pollutant's Tale' complete with teaching notes to an audience of 40 honours, masters level and PhD students. A further group of 12 honours and masters students were involved in a 2 hour masterclass in demonstration experiments in the teaching laboratories.
Rhodes University Chemists have been working with Bristol ChemLabS for several years and deliver 'A Pollutant's Tale' to several thousand school students in the Eastern and Western Cape in township and other schools each year.
January
26 January: 'Chemistry and Light', Joint RSC/SCI/BSciA Family Evening Lecture: Bristol ChemLabS
Dr Peter Douglas (Swansea) presented the lecture demonstration 'Chemistry and Light' to a mixed audience of 240+ academics, teachers, students, parents and scouts. The meeting ended with a wine and nibbles reception hosted by the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol.
23 January: Chemical Kinetics Demonstration Lecture, University of Bristol
Tim Harrison and Dudley Shallcross entertained second year undergraduate Chemists at the University of Bristol with a lecture demonstration to start to their kinetics course. This in-reach event was appreciated by the students close to the end of their examinations.
20 January: Primary Science Teachers Workshop, MMU, Manchester
Tim Harrison delivered a practical science workshop at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) for 21 4th Year BA students, many of whom are taking Science as a specialism. The workshop concentrated on what is and what isn't a chemical change and states of matter using the demonstration lecture 'Gases in the Air'. The students had an opportunity to have fun with experiments involving liquid nitrogen and dry ice together with slime experiments and iodine clock reactions.
Feedback from undergraduate students:
"My own extremely keen interest in science surprised me for the first time in ages. I was literally amazed at some of the activities I saw and took part in."
"Loved how interesting it is! Being 'the kid' and seeing that children do gain so much from one lesson."
Referring to ChemLabS Primary Outreach experiments, another student reported "That it is possible to do these experiments with Primary School children - I think that is awesome."
This course, at the Didsbury campus, was sponsored by the AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust (AZSTT) and was organised in conjunction with AZSTT Primary College member Kathy Schofield.
07 January: Science on Stage, ASE National Conference, Liverpool
Tim Harrison and Alison Rivett both presented to an audience of 30 international teachers and other educators at the Science on Stage feedback event at the Association of Science Education conference at the University of Liverpool.
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