Dear STEM Ambassadors,
As part of the Cambridge festival in 2021 (Spring 2021), some members of Campus are organising a hackathon. They are currently looking for people to join and be part of the organisation, as well as ideas. Some details on the project:
The hackathon will be open to the general public and anyone can take part.
Participants - We're looking for researchers, technicians or support staff, everyone can get involved. If you want to take part we will find something for you to do, whether you have or haven't done any coding before, it doesn't matter.
Ideas - We need ideas for projects that will be part of the hackathon.
These ideas will centre around four main themes:
- Improving the science we do;
- Improving inclusivity;
- Improving the environment;
- Educational
If you have an idea or would like to be involved, please get in touch with the organisers via email addressing Stephen Inglis at si5(a)sanger.ac.uk or via the public engagement Slack channel.
Best wishes,
Alexandra
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Alexandra Canet
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Dear STEM Ambassadors
I hope you are well. We are launching an exciting new pilot project, Black STEMM futures which aims to inspire black students (aged 13 -18) to get involved in STEM activities and achieve a Youth STEMM Award. We are looking for STEM ambassadors who would be able to act as a coach or mentor (online) for a small cohort of students (up to 25) from schools across the East of England and London, helping to keep them on track and complete the award.
We are also looking for staff who would like to host different activities for the students to take part in. We will be holding a training session(s) to support ambassadors wanting to get involved with the programme.
The programme will officially start in January. For more information, visit our Fred page:
https://fred.wellcomegenomecampus.org/Interact/Pages/Content/Document.aspx?…
If this is of interest or you have any questions, please do get in contact and we can arrange a date for a meeting.
Best wishes
Fran
Francesca Gale
Education and Learning Manager
Work days: Monday to Friday (Home based)
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Dear STEM Ambassadors,
We are looking for one or two wet-lab researchers to speak at a careers about Career Opportunities in Molecular Biology, Genomics and Bioinformatics.
The session is running on Wednesday 25th November 2020, from 11:25-12:25 for Year 10 pupils at Bottisham Village College. Speakers will need to provide a short bio about their work to be sent out to the school before the session, and then will give a talk about their career for around 5 minutes before answering questions from the pupils. There will be a total of 3 or 4 speakers, so you won’t be the only one answering questions!
If you’d like to be involved, please contact Birgit Meldal (bmeldal(a)ebi.ac.uk<mailto:bmeldal@ebi.ac.uk>), or reply to this email.
Best wishes,
Em Dixon
Education and Learning Officer
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Dear STEM Ambassadors,
Firstly, I’d like to introduce myself as the new Education and Learning Officer in Public Engagement. I’m currently organising a new online school programme for the year.
Genomics Lite is a new programme of live webinars for upper secondary biology classes. Running twice a week on Tuesday lunchtime and Thursday after school, pupils will have the chance to hear from and ask questions to scientists from the Wellcome Genome Campus. The programme will cover a new curriculum-linked topic every half term and will look at the topic in context of cutting edge research, what techniques and equipment are used in the lab, what the big ethical questions in the field are and what career pathways scientists have taken. Each topic will be accompanied by pre- and post- session resources to support learning in the classroom and at home.
We’re looking for involvement from staff across the Campus to be involved with our online schools programme! We are looking for live or pre-recorded talk about your research, what techniques you use in your lab or what your career path has looked like, as well as doing a live Q&A with school groups. All sessions will be hosted by a member of the Public Engagement team and will last under an hour.
The topic for this term (November-December) is the Human Genome Project, as an introduction to the topic and the Campus’ work. The topics we are hoping to explore in the new year include: cancer; infectious diseases; genome editing; evolution and inheritance; stem cells.
Please get in touch if you’re interested in getting involved, or have any questions or ideas about the programme.
Best wishes,
Em Dixon
Education and Learning Officer
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