Hi STEM Ambassadors
We have a group of 50 Year 5 and year 6 pupils (8-10 yrs) from Sawtry Junior Academy visiting the campus between 10am and 2:00 pm on the 10th March. We are running parallel activities with the group across the campus. We are looking for STEM Ambassadors who could support the visiting by taking part in or running the following activities:
"Technicians activity" x 2 (30 minutes or 2 x 15 minutes rotating groups of 12 students)
An activity that shows different skills needed in your job - this could be hands on lab skills like pipetting, microscope work, animal care skills, bioinformatics or coding skills.
DNA extraction session for 25 students x 2
Help students to extract DNA from a strawberry using household items and help them to carry out a variation investigation and report their results
Meet the expert (30 minutes) x 2
Groups of students rotate around different staff working at the campus to find out more about what they do as a job.
DNA bracelets and code crackers for 25 students (30 minutes) x 2
Help students to make a DNA bracelet and help them to decode DNA codes.
A rough schedule is below:
Group 1 - OPEN LAB
Group 1 - DISCOVERY ZONE
10:00
10:30
11:15
12:15
12:45
13:30
Open Lab
Technicians Activities
DNA Bracelets, Code cracker
Intro to DNA and genes
DNA extraction and Investigate
Meet the expert
Group 2 - DISCOVERY ZONE
GROUP 2 - OPEN LAB
10:00
10:30
11:15
12:15
12:45
13:30
Intro to DNA and genes
DNA extraction and Investigate
Meet the expert
Open Lab
Technicians Activities
DNA Bracelets, Code cracker
I hope you can help and look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes
Fran
Francesca Gale
Education Development Lead
Work days: Monday to Thursday
Tel: +44 (0)1223 496997
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Hi all,
Sorry, please ignore this email, it was re-sent in error. We have already found someone to go to this school.
Best wishes,
Susan
From: Stemambassadors <stemambassadors-bounces(a)wellcomegenomecampus.org> on behalf of Susan Wallace <Susan.Wallace(a)wellcomegenomecampus.org>
Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2020 at 09:46
To: Stemambassadors <stemambassadors(a)wellcomegenomecampus.org>
Subject: [Stemambassadors] Talk at Colchester County High School
Dear STEM Ambassadors,
A year 11 student from Colchester County High School for Girls has been in touch with us asking if someone from the Wellcome Genome Campus could visit their school and give a talk about their work and career during British Science Week (2-13 March).
Their Science Department and Science Leaders will host a lunch for anyone who visits the school. They are also open to talking over Skype if a visit isn’t possible.
Please let us know if you are interested in giving this talk and we can connect you with the school.
Best wishes,
Public Engagement team
Dear STEM Ambassadors,
Birgit Meldal is looking for a few volunteers to help with DNA bracelets and DNA extractions with 2x Year 4 classes at Milton Primary School in the morning of Friday, 28th February. Please let her know if you would like to join the fun! Birgit is organising all the logistics, you would just be required to turn up and help the children with the two activities.
If you would like to join Birgit, please email her directly (bmeldal(a)ebi.ac.uk<mailto:bmeldal@ebi.ac.uk>).
Best wishes,
Public Engagement
Dear All,
We’re running an hour long training workshop on Tuesday 25th Feb (tomorrow) at 11:30am in the OpenLab (in the Ogilvie building), around a set of public engagement coding activity kits that have been developed.
Anyone interested is welcome to come along to hear more about the kits and learn how to run them as activities.
Spaces are limited so please email engage(a)wgc.org.uk<mailto:engage@wgc.org.uk> to let us know if you are planning on coming along.
There are also upcoming opportunities to get experience running these with the public, such as an event being held at Downham Market Library on the 12th March, Open Saturday as part of Cambridge Science Festival on 21st March and the YouMe&Us event in August. So if you are interested in either putting the kits into practice at these events, or coming along to learn about them but are unable to make it to the training tomorrow, then please do get in touch about these events too.
Hope to see some of you there!
Thanks and best wishes,
The Public Engagement Team
Tel: 01223 496822
Public Engagement
Room B229A
Sulston Building
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Wellcome Genome Campus Public Engagement is part of Connecting Science, which enables everyone to explore genomic science and its impact on research, health and society.
Dear STEM Ambassadors,
A year 11 student from Colchester County High School for Girls has been in touch with us asking if someone from the Wellcome Genome Campus could visit their school and give a talk about their work and career during British Science Week (2-13 March).
Their Science Department and Science Leaders will host a lunch for anyone who visits the school. They are also open to talking over Skype if a visit isn’t possible.
Please let us know if you are interested in giving this talk and we can connect you with the school.
Best wishes,
Public Engagement team
Dear STEM Ambassadors,
A year 11 student from Colchester County High School for Girls has been in touch with us asking if someone from the Wellcome Genome Campus could visit their school and give a talk about their work and career during British Science Week (2-13 March).
Their Science Department and Science Leaders will host a lunch for anyone who visits the school. They are also open to talking over Skype if a visit isn’t possible.
Please let us know if you are interested in giving this talk and we can connect you with the school.
Best wishes,
Public Engagement team
Dear STEM Ambassadors,
We're writing to tell you about a fantastic public engagement event we have coming up on Thursday 12th March!
The campus is going to be taking over Downham Market Library and putting on stalls to highlight all the amazing genomics work we do every day!
We are looking for people to come and help facilitate conversations and activities with visitors (primary school aged children through to adults using the library services) between 11am and 5pm.
No previous experience is needed as we will make sure you are trained on any activities and supported throughout the day.
This event will help the campus reach out to audiences who tend to have less opportunities to engage with the campus or genomics and is sure to be a great day!
If you are interested in getting involved with this then please do let us know by emailing engage(a)wgc.org.uk<mailto:engage@wgc.org.uk>.
We can also cover all transport costs for getting to and from this event so please don't let that stop you!
Thanks and Best Wishes,
The Public Engagement Team
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Hi All
At the last Stem Ambassadors lunch someone mentioned a smell based demonstration that could be done where a jar was set up with contents and some people could smell the contents, and some people would find it odourless, depending on the variant they have. Does someone have some more information on this please? I’m toying with trying to incorporate it into the show I do.
Regards
Rishi
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Dear all,
I am emailing you about a great opportunity that may be of interest to some of you. The Biochemical Society is running an online training course, an Introduction to public engagement and science policy <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__biochemical-2Dsociety.…> , starting 24 February 2020.
The course is free to attend for members of the Biochemical Society and £50 for others. You will have access to the module for one year, and lead educators will reply to your comments in the first 6 weeks, so you're encouraged to complete the course during this time.
Please let the Public Engagement team know<mailto:engage@wgc.org.uk> if you plan to take this course.
Participants will explore how the molecular biosciences can contribute to UK policy, and share tools that can be used to engage the public effectively. This course is ideal for early career to established bioscientists who wish to learn more about science policy and public engagement.
Topics covered in this interactive course include:
* Introduction to science communication
* Science in policy-making – a guide to the UK landscape
* Public engagement activities
* Evaluation of impact
Best wishes,
Public Engagement team
Tel: +44 (0)1223 496822
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Hi Everyone
We have a group of Year 6 (age 10 - 11) students visiting from Gt Abington Primary School on the 5th February. We would like to host a "meet the expert" session with the students where they meet different staff from across the campus to find out about different jobs and careers.
The session will be taking place 11:15 - 12:00 in the Discovery Zone.
There will be groups of students rotating around 4 or 5 scientists. Your role is to give 4 x 10 minute Q and A sessions about your job, using props or aides to explain what you do. We recommend that you spend 5 minutes talking and leave 5 minutes for the students to ask questions. We will give them prompter questions if they are shy!
Please could you let me know if you are interested in being involved.
Thanks for your help.
Best wishes
Fran
Francesca Gale
Education Development Lead
Work days: Monday to Thursday
Tel: +44 (0)1223 496997
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