Category: STEM at Home (or anywhere!)

See below a shout out for an event which was shared via our good friends at Climate Action North. All details on the flyer.

Summer gives us all time to have a break but with September around the corner it is now time to think about the upcoming school year.

Remember we have lots of resources you can use, check out STEM, Climate and Inclusion pages for a wealth of materials.

Also CSI have funded Lottie Books for leaving in Tees Valley primary schools by STEM Ambassadors.

If the following articles inspire you to get involved then contact us at we.are.engineering.together@gmail.com to find out how you can get free books to use and then give to schools.

• Badger Hill gets first book set – Engineering Together
• The first ever Engineering Ambassadors at Fens Primary – Engineering Together
• Harewood Primary Lottie Assembly – Engineering Together
• Lottie visits students in Darlington – Engineering Together
• Ethan and Lottie – Engineering Together

Paula took several sets of the Lottie Books printed by the Cleveland Scientific Institution to Berwick Hills School in Middlesbrough today along with a very special guest, Ethan.

Ethan enthused the students by telling them all about Civil Engineering. This was Ethan’s very first event as a STEM Ambassador but Paula is certain it won’t be his last because his reading of the Lottie Books was brilliant.

One of our website users participated in STEM Club at school this past year (she was one of two girls in the club) and her and her family are always looking for fun activities to do at home!

They found our website and told us “the Engineering Together site was awesome. The Fun at Home (or anywhere) page was such a help for us. We have been on the hunt for some STEM info and resources to look into this summer… and our future STEM professional was so happy to see some new resources she hadn’t seen before :-)”

Mum told us she could not be more proud of her daughter for pursuing her passion.. especially in STEM. “It makes me so happy to see her so eager and excited. She is currently super interested in coding… and she wanted to share this resource with you: https://www.qualtrics.com/blog/glossary-of-coding-and-programming-terms/“

We at EngTog are of course thrilled at the impact we are having and have added this great resource to Fun at Home (or anywhere!) – Engineering Together page.

Paula took Lottie and several sets of her Lottie Books to two Darlington schools today. Rydal and West Park both received sets funded by from the Cleveland Scientific Institution to keep. We also all took advantage of the weather and did some reading outside proving your really can learn about STEM anywhere!

Our Climate Champion Julie is flying the flag for all things STEM at Norton Green Market today during the Great Big Green Week. She is there with her ever present turtle made of plastic and hydrogen cars. Julie uses these to help us all consider our impact on the environment and how our everyday changes to REDUCE make the most difference. The cars show one of the engineering advancements which will help us make the best of the resources we have for the things we need.

A whole year group at this Thornaby Primary had some great discussions about all things STEM through the medium of Lottie dolls and books our Chair Paula took to their assembly.

The students read one of the books and were left a full set of the 5 Lottie Books for each class which were kindly printed by funding from the Cleveland Scientific Institution.

Fens Primary in Hartlepool had a lovely visit from our Chair Paula.

Paula took a 2 sets of the Lottie books printed by the Cleveland Scientific Institution to give each of the classes.

The students were so excited about being engineers they nominated the very first Engineering Ambassadors in the school; one from each class.

Thanks to the Cleveland Scientific Institution many schools in the Tees Valley will be getting a visit from STEM Ambassadors who will leave them with all 5 Lottie Books to read.

The first school attended was Badger Hill who said “the children loved the session and
are excited to read the rest of the books…. you gave a great insight into your role as well as helping to smash stereotypes”.

The children chose Lottie Loves Water to read as a group and what brilliant readers they are in Years 1 and 2.

EngTog has some great links with the STEMettes as Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, Head Stemette spoke at the Engineering Together official launch (almost 4 years ago!).

Since then we have contributed to getting the group to STEMettes Monster Middlesbrough where we helped make the day special.

In their 10 year anniversary year we again helped out at the North East event.

Long may we help make the world fairer for all – together.