60 Year 5 students from King’s Hedges Primary School were given the exciting opportunity to visit Schlumberger for an activity day with Cambridge LaunchPad. The students were given the opportunity to take part in a range of engineering and technology-related activities from observing and recording sound and seismic waves to racing liquids of different viscosity […]
Microsoft Research hosted a computing discovery day for Year 6 students from Abbey Meadows Primary School as part of Cambridge LaunchPad, a STEM outreach programme managed by Form the Future CIC. The students were challenged to a range of activities from coding a simple wire buzzer game with micro:bit computers and designing monsters in Paint 3D
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In March, Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group opened their hangar doors to host Cambridge LaunchPad activity days for 250 Year 4 students from schools across Cambridgeshire. The 8-9 year olds from Abbey Meadows, Fen Ditton, Fulbourn, King’s Hedges and St Faith’s Schools were each treated to a fun-packed day full of exciting hands-on activities and
On 14 and 15 March, Year 4 students from Cherry Hinton C of E Primary School, Teversham Primary School and the Cambridgeshire Home Educating Families (CHEF) visited Anglian Water at their education centre to learn about conservation, sewage treatment and water recycling. Ellie Henderson, Community Education Manager at Anglian Water, said “It’s great to give young people
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Year 10 students from Bottisham Village College, Cambridgeshire Home Educating Families, Coleridge Community College, North Cambridge Academy, Stephen Perse Foundation and Swavesey Village College were brought together at Horizon Discovery for the first Cambridge LaunchPad Innovators event of 2018. The students were set up in temporary forensic laboratories and challenged to solve a gruesome murder
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Year 12 students from colleges across Cambridgeshire attended the first Cambridge LaunchPad Scholars’ event of 2018. Students travelled to the Amazon Development Centre at One Station Square, where they were introduced to the coding language Python and learnt how to build an Alexa skill. David Hardcastle, Senior Manager at Amazon, said: “When opening our new
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Year 12 students from Hills Road Sixth Form College, Long Road Sixth Form College and Comberton Sixth Form were invited to apply for an activity day with TTP Group, a Founding Partner of Cambridge LaunchPad. Dr Abi Graham, an experimental physicist at TTP Group, said: “Creating successful new products at TTP relies on having a
Selected Year 12 students from Long Road Sixth Form College, Hills Road Sixth Form College and Comberton Sixth Form were invited to attend a unique project day at the Sanger Institute, following the successful submission of a team application video. The students were challenged to produce a short video to document how they would spend
Year 6 students from Cherry Hinton CofE and Teversham CofE (VA) primary schools were brought together on Wednesday 24th January for a Cambridge LaunchPad event with Mott MacDonald at their offices on Station Road, Cambridge. Volunteers from across the organisation took part in the STEM outreach activity day, which is managed by Form the Future
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Year 5 students from Cherry Hinton C of E Primary School and the Cambridgeshire Home Educating Families came together for the first Cambridge LaunchPad event of 2018. Volunteers from the A14 Integrated Delivery Team and Highways England hosted a fun-packed day for our STEM outreach programme at their site near Bar Hill. The students were
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