STEM

Arm and Codehouse, together with Cambridge LaunchPad challenged Year 8 students to create app ideas that would address one of the UN’s sustainable development goals, by raising awareness and helping to solve local environmental, health or climate issues. Simon Humphrey, senior sustainability manager at Arm, said “Our work in education is focused on solving the […]

Secondary school students from Cambridge have been swapping classroom science for real life lab experience! Life science researchers at the Babraham Institute invited Year 8 students to apply to take part in an Innovators-level Cambridge LaunchPad event. Students from Swavesey Village College and Netherhall School learnt how to extract DNA from soft fruit, using a

Year 5 students from Fulbourn Primary School were invited to a STEM activity day with TWI to discover how they use robotics to examine welded joints and detect defects. The event also aimed to show STEM subjects in a new light as part of the Cambridge LaunchPad programme, which is managed by Form the Future

Year 5 students from The Spinney Primary School were treated to a STEM outreach day at Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology, (CAST) where they had the opportunity to meet and work with Year 12 students that are studying STEM subjects at A-level. Alistair Easterfield, Assistant Head Teacher at CAST, said Year 12 students of

Year 7 students from Coleridge, Parkside, North Cambridge Academy and the Cambridgeshire Home Educating Families (CHEF) were invited to design ways to filter and remove unflushables from the sewage system in support of Anglian Water’s Keep it Clear campaign. The students who produced the most creative and innovative solutions attended a STEM outreach day at

Cambridge Consultants invited Year 7 students from Bottisham Village College, Netherhall School, Stephen Perse Foundation Senior School and Swavesey Village College to apply to attend a STEM project day. They were challenged to identify an issue that affects people in their day-to-day lives and design a technological solution to solve that problem. The winning students

Makespace opened up their ‘inventing shed’ for Year 5 students from Fen Ditton and Teversham Primary Schools to take part in coding discovery days. The events were part of Cambridge LaunchPad, a STEM outreach programme managed by Form the Future CIC. Mac Bowley, Outreach Organiser at Makespace Cambridge Ltd., said The project days were a

Nearly 40 Year 5 students from Bar Hill Primary School visited Littleport and East Cambs Academy for a STEM outreach day with Morgan Sindall, to learn about the construction industry and the cutting-edge technology used to design new buildings. In addition to teaching young people about STEM in a fun, engaging way, Cambridge LaunchPad aims to

Year 4 students from Bar Hill Primary School had the exciting opportunity to visit their neighbours Domino Printing for a STEM outreach day with Cambridge LaunchPad. The programme, which is managed by Form the Future CIC aims to get young people passionate about STEM subjects. Stella, Year 4 student at Bar Hill Primary School, said: