Engineering Festival 2011 - Revision history

Laura: /* Energy planning/pollution game */

2011-07-27T13:43:27Z

‎Energy planning/pollution game

Laura: /* Activity ideas */

2011-07-18T21:00:59Z

‎Activity ideas

Laura: /* Activity ideas */

2011-07-18T21:00:25Z

‎Activity ideas

Laura: /* City planning/polution 'game */

2011-07-18T20:39:19Z

‎City planning/polution 'game

Jonny at 23:49, 14 July 2011

2011-07-14T23:49:35Z

Jonny at 23:37, 14 July 2011

2011-07-14T23:37:27Z

Laura at 21:01, 29 March 2011

2011-03-29T21:01:13Z

Laura: Created page with ''''Introduction''' We're planning a big outreach event, the ''Engineering Festival'', which will take place on 18th October 2011, at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. Such out…'

2011-03-29T21:00:02Z

Created page with ''''Introduction''' We're planning a big outreach event, the ''Engineering Festival'', which will take place on 18th October 2011, at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. Such out…'

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'''Introduction'''

We're planning a big outreach event, the ''Engineering Festival'', which will take place on 18th October 2011, at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. Such outreach is very important for the Makespace community, as helping engage and inspire young people is a big part of the reason we think Makespace is necessary, and hopefully it will help us reach our engagement targets set as a requirement for receiving our bootstrap funding.

This will be a day for secondary school pupils aged 15+ to have a go at some hands-on, problem-solving engineering work, and also learn more about the engineering industry. Ideally the day will include a range of quality interactive engineering activities - very hands-on - as well as talks and demos. The event is being organised in collaboration with STEM TEAM and Duxford, and aims to attract at least 400 students from across the region, who are studying science/engineering/design&technology at BTEC, GCSE or A level.

We need your help, now, in planning and designing workshops, and on the day!

For the event to be a success, it would be great if you could offer any or all of the following things. Please add your ideas to the Meetup page, or drop us a line at info@makespace.org if you think you can help with any of these, so that the organisers have time to pull together the plan and get schools and companies on board.

* ideas for hands-on activities which could work within a day (~6 hours maximum) or a shorter session, with this age group. This could be from any type of engineering - we'd really like to have a wide range
* suggestions of potential sponsoring companies (most useful if you can provide a relevant contact at the organisation) - any level of sponsorship is welcome, in cash or in kind
* offers of talks (any duration!) which would interest the students
* suggestions for celebrity speakers or exciting topics where a speaker could be found, which could provide a high profile "keynote" element to the day
* volunteers to test out the ideas for hands-on activities (this testing will probably take place in late March or early April - all welcome! We'll need to figure out what can be done with what equipment, how long a task might take a 15-17 year old, etc)
* offers of demos from companies, which could be given at a stand in a "trade show" type area
* volunteers to help out on 18th October itself (briefing and support will be given in advance through the STEM TEAM network; existing STEM Ambassadors will probably hear about this event separately, too, in which case volunteering through STEM TEAM is fine and you don't need to contact Makespace as well)
* contact with teachers and schools in the East of England that would be interested in attending.

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		+	== Innovation brainstorming activity ==
		+	http://www.ideaplay.org.uk/ designed for schools and groups - might be interesting with some context from our theme?

	== Strongest construction from simple materials ==		== Strongest construction from simple materials ==

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	Ideas after discussion on 14th July 2011		Ideas after discussion on 14th July 2011
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		+	Many of these ideas could be made more complex by adding a materials (or time/test run) cost unit.

	== Strongest Rope from Bags ==		== Strongest Rope from Bags ==

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 * Secondary prize for weight per bag used.
-Testing should happen incrementally - the challenge should not be a 'success or failure' matter - rather a test of how much weight a rope can take.
+Testing should happen incrementally - the challenge should not be a 'success or failure' matter - rather a test of how much weight a rope can take. Could do several tests or test phases through an hour.
 Extension activity: What mechanism would be most appropriate for joining sections of rope?
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 http://www.perspectivity.org/en/perspectivity_game
 = Miscellaneous ideas =

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 This task lends itself well to the Kinetic energy recovery task too - which types of KER are useful and which ones are just all talk?
-== City planning/polution 'game ==
+== Energy planning/pollution game ==
-Laura has details...
+Laura has details and knows the organisers.  They could run a game for us or train some of us to run it.
 = Miscellaneous ideas =

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 = Overarching Theme =
-We would like a theme to run through all the activities in the event, and propose something like "The city of the future" because it is possible to explain almost all engineering tasks in this light.
+We would like a theme to run through all the activities in the event, and propose something like "The city of the future" because it is possible to explain almost all engineering tasks in this light. Another possible theme that would likely easily tie in with everything for the same reasons would be "Rebuilding a city after a disaster" - this needs a catchier name, but includes a good humanitarian angle, and is also topical after the Japan earthquake.
 Below are possible narratives to accompany the existing exercises.
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 * Clay or salt dough.
 * (blowtorch)
 = Miscellaneous ideas =

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-'''Introduction'''
+=Introduction=
 We're planning a big outreach event, the ''Engineering Festival'', which will take place on 18th October 2011, at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. Such outreach is very important for the Makespace community, as helping engage and inspire young people is a big part of the reason we think Makespace is necessary, and hopefully it will help us reach our engagement targets set as a requirement for receiving our bootstrap funding.
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 * contact with teachers and schools in the East of England that would be interested in attending.
-'''Activity ideas'''
+= Overarching Theme =
-Please add ideas below. We will discuss during early April and then tidy up this list into a feasible set.

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 For the event to be a success, it would be great if you could offer any or all of the following things. Please add your ideas to the Meetup page, or drop us a line at info@makespace.org if you think you can help with any of these, so that the organisers have time to pull together the plan and get schools and companies on board.
-    * ideas for hands-on activities which could work within a day (~6 hours maximum) or a shorter session, with this age group. This could be from any type of engineering - we'd really like to have a wide range
+* ideas for hands-on activities which could work within a day (~6 hours maximum) or a shorter session, with this age group. This could be from any type of engineering - we'd really like to have a wide range
-    * suggestions of potential sponsoring companies (most useful if you can provide a relevant contact at the organisation) - any level of sponsorship is welcome, in cash or in kind
+* suggestions of potential sponsoring companies (most useful if you can provide a relevant contact at the organisation) - any level of sponsorship is welcome, in cash or in kind
-    * offers of talks (any duration!) which would interest the students
+* offers of talks (any duration!) which would interest the students
-    * suggestions for celebrity speakers or exciting topics where a speaker could be found, which could provide a high profile "keynote" element to the day
+* suggestions for celebrity speakers or exciting topics where a speaker could be found, which could provide a high profile "keynote" element to the day
-    * volunteers to test out the ideas for hands-on activities (this testing will probably take place in late March or early April - all welcome! We'll need to figure out what can be done with what equipment, how long a task might take a 15-17 year old, etc)
+* volunteers to test out the ideas for hands-on activities (this testing will probably take place in late March or early April - all welcome! We'll need to figure out what can be done with what equipment, how long a task might take a 15-17 year old, etc)
-    * offers of demos from companies, which could be given at a stand in a "trade show" type area
+* offers of demos from companies, which could be given at a stand in a "trade show" type area
-    * volunteers to help out on 18th October itself (briefing and support will be given in advance through the STEM TEAM network; existing STEM Ambassadors will probably hear about this event separately, too, in which case volunteering through STEM TEAM is fine and you don't need to contact Makespace as well)
+* volunteers to help out on 18th October itself (briefing and support will be given in advance through the STEM TEAM network; existing STEM Ambassadors will probably hear about this event separately, too, in which case volunteering through STEM TEAM is fine and you don't need to contact Makespace as well)
-    * contact with teachers and schools in the East of England that would be interested in attending.
+* contact with teachers and schools in the East of England that would be interested in attending.