Category: STEM at Home (or anywhere!)

“The Engineering Together Fun at Home page is the perfect resource for families looking for fun and educational activities. It’s filled with new and unique activities if you’re looking for something fun to do as a family at home! The team always keeps the page updated too, so you can continuously check back for something new.

The last year has been quite the challenge with Coronavirus, so to be able to find up to date pages filled with family activities is so helpful. My family is actually having a get together tomorrow to try out these fun activities all together! I can’t thank the team at Engineering Together enough for their support.  If you find a fun activity feel free to send it over to them – they are so friendly! “

-Allie C. and Family

And thanks to them we have another fabulous link to Exploring STEM Education: A Resource Guide – College Cliffs on our Fun at Home – Engineering Together page

Thanks to Zane for pointing us in the direction of Computer Games and Experiments: A STEM Guide – Router Admin (router-admin.net) which has lots of exciting things you can do on your computer

Our Chair has made it to the Institution of Civil Engineers Pitch 200 final with her creative short video.

See all shortlisted entries here – Pitch 200 | Institution of Civil Engineers (ice.org.uk)

Watch Paula’s pitch here –

We have added another wonderful website to our Fun at Home section following a great suggestion from Maddie. She has found lots of things to do with her family and friends during lockdown. We look forward to seeing them working in STEM in the future…

“Some of our favourite things to do as a family over this last year have been family movie and game nights (we love board games)! My son and husband have been playing old video games, and my daughter and I have done a bunch of crafts and activities together. With summer near, I want to have some new and fun games and activities we can enjoy over the next few months.

The Fun at Home page https://engineeringtogether.com/fun-at-home/ was perfect in leading me to a bunch of new, fun, and educational activities! Thank you so much for taking the time to put this page together. This is exactly what I was looking for!

My daughter, Maddie, was actually really interested in finding some new activities and she found a page full of STEM projects and activities! Here’s the link: https://constructiondisputes.com/construction-and-building-projects-and-activities-for-kids/

Maddie’s motivation and optimism inspires me! She has kept a positive attitude through this entire pandemic and I think it’s really cool that she found an educational activities page on her own. She actually shared it with her group of girl friends and they think it’s really cool too! “

British Science Week helps us focus our efforts, this year it was on Innovating the Future.

Check out this series of talks on how lots of different STEM sectors are looking towards the technologies of tomorrow.

Watch here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAbm9EWT2g7eTCd3MPB01eLk0ITzAqK8O

As a Top Former Apprentice on the 2019 WE50 list and the 2020 North East Apprenticeship Champion our Chair has shown she is very passionate about apprenticeships.  This year was no different.

In National Apprenticeship Week we can all help provide information to future apprentices and help them make well-informed decisions.  Find out more about local networks in her article for The Tees Online or listen to her chat with Hartlepool FE and interview with CVFM Radio to find out why apprenticeships are a great option.

Tomorrow’s Engineers Week is a community-wide campaign that has taken place every November since 2013. The Week is all about showcasing modern engineering careers to young people, their teachers, parents and other influencers.

Our very own Tees Valley based High Tide Foundation interviewed Paula to shine a spotlight on the world of engineering and opportunities in the sector.

Watch to hear more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoyM_neWcs

Well done to Lily Johnson Age 7 who has created a happy living space for the LGBT community from her Lego.

Lily fully supports STEM and has a keen interest in Science and Engineering (Architecture).

Lily loves Gay Pride, Ru Paul and Lego.

We hope you all love this as much as we do.

What will you do to enter our competition? 

For details see www.engineeringtogether.com/prizes/

Read all about the adventures of Lottie the doll and find out more about engineering, recycling and gardening.

These books contain lots of things to do alongside the stories.

They are totally free to download from www.weslottietour.org.uk/resources.html

Check out the presentation to this by our Chair, Paula, on How Climate Change affects the Future of Engineering. 

Paula explores what we can all do to make changes.

Watch it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8GbSGxyd1U&t=175s