STEM Ambassadors on Teachers TV
These inspirational role models feature are currently featuring in a series on Teachers TV!
9 November at 10.00pm
In the first of the series Planetary Scientist and STEM Ambassador, Sheila Kanani, demonstrates how it’s possible to cook up a comet in the classroom, talks about her work on the Cassini spacecraft, currently orbiting Saturn, and explains to students how they can follow in her footsteps and pursue a career in space science.
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9 November at 10.15pm
In the second programme Spacecraft Engineer and STEM Ambassador, Faye Cashman, shows students her multi-million pound Mars rover robot. To land a Mars rover safely on another planet requires a suitable landing craft and Faye set the students the challenge of building a landing craft for an egg. Faye also gives a guided tour of her workplace, providing an insight into what it is like to work in the space industry.
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16 November at 10.00pm
Charlotte Bailey, Trainee Plant Scientist and STEM Ambassador has gained a range of science qualifications through an apprenticeship at the Sellafield Nuclear facility. In the third of the series Charlotte returns to her former school and sets a mock chip pan fire; creates a screaming jelly baby, a whoosh bottle, and a mini volcano; and demonstrates how to make the perfect soap bubble to share her enthusiasm for science.
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16 November at 10.15pm
Chris Styles, Applications Engineer and STEM Ambassador, works for the mircoprocessor company, ARM, who design the computer processors used in 90% of mobile phones. In the fourth show Chris speaks about his work, and his experiments in his home-built electronics workshop in his garage, before giving the students a range of fun activities to do including; launching a rocket, building an electronic range finder, and working on an innovative locking mechanism and a small robotic car.
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23 November at 10.00pm
In the penultimate show, Entrepreneur and STEM Ambassador, Graham Gannon, sets year 9 students a task to design, cost and market a new MP3 player to demonstrate how important maths skills are in the real world. Using a business simulator, he predicts how each group's MP3 player will perform in the market place and supports and encourages the students to look at how crucial maths is to the decisions they make.
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23 November at 10.15pm
In the final programme Medical Physicist and STEM Ambassador, Leo Garcia, shows students how an ultrasound scanner works by using it on their teacher in a game called I Spy in Sir and helped them to understand how cancerous tumours grow and how elasticity relates to finding cancerous tumours in the body. Back in his lab at the Institute of Cancer Research, Leo demonstrates how his specially-developed ultrasound equipment can clear identify tumours where normal ultrasound would fail.
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