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Ben Evans & Clare Woods
Research Officers
Ambassador fact file
What is a STEM Ambassador?
STEM Ambassadors are volunteers of all ages working in a range of STEMrelated roles from apprentice engineers to geologists and nuclear physicists to zoologists. Not only do they have a lot of fun, but they get an opportunity to contribute to their local community and boost their skills and confidence.
What is a STEM Ambassador?
STEM Ambassadors are volunteers of all ages working in a range of STEMrelated roles from apprentice engineers to geologists and nuclear physicists to zoologists. Not only do they have a lot of fun, but they get an opportunity to contribute to their local community and boost their skills and confidence.
What do they do?
There are lots of ways that STEMAmbassadors can get involved; givingcareers talks, helping out with STEMClubs, running workshops in localschools, and much, much more. You cando as little or as much as you want, comeup with your own ideas or choose anactivity from our regular e-mail updates.
There are lots of ways that STEMAmbassadors can get involved; givingcareers talks, helping out with STEMClubs, running workshops in localschools, and much, much more. You cando as little or as much as you want, comeup with your own ideas or choose anactivity from our regular e-mail updates.
Will I get any training?
After they have completed their CRBcheck, all STEM Ambassadors receivean induction into working in theclassroom and, of course, our regionalrepresentative will make sure that youget the help and support you need.
After they have completed their CRBcheck, all STEM Ambassadors receivean induction into working in theclassroom and, of course, our regionalrepresentative will make sure that youget the help and support you need.
Clare Wood and Ben Evans are both research officers at the Civil and Computational Engineering Research Centre at Swansea University. They are working on BLOODHOUND SSC, a supersonic car which is being designed to break the world land speed record.
Clare says: By volunteering as a STEM Ambassador I get to work with young people who are really excited by real-life challenges such as BLOODHOUND SSC. Id like to see lots more women becoming engineers in the future.
Ben became fascinated with airplanes as a teenager and went on to study aerospace engineering at Cambridge. Ben says: "I'm working on one of the most exciting engineering challenges in the world. It doesn't get better than that!"
Clare and Ben are pictured in an industrial wind tunnel at Southampton University the computational fluid dynamics supercomputing that they carry out is the modern-day equivalent of months of wind tunnel testing.