I think the current exercise in joining-up (to whatever extent) the wide range of STEM communication/engagement activity is to be welcomed, and I hope we can all get through the rounds of "what about us" that such activities naturally uncover.
In that spirit (!) the Big Bang Fair is, I'm told, a fantastic example of getting lots of different people together doing similar work in one place. Except of course that quite a lot of us around the country can't - not out of some latent regional prejudice but because it's at the start of National Science & Engineering Week so we're all a bit busy already. So, can I ask anyone who does go along to tell the rest of us a couple of things? What impression do you get from the event of the range of activity available in the UK? Do you think it's representative (and is that important anyway)?
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From: Juliet Upton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 February 2010 14:55
Subject: Re: Joined-up working and information sharing
...as Mike says, COPUS did try to join up working and information
sharing - with limited success. Various other efforts have taken place,
including one conceived but never flown by ETB (now Engineering UK) in
2003.
Hats off however to the Big Bang Fair (led and run through Engineering
UK with The British Science Association) which is attempting to create a
far-more joined up approach to STEM nationally as well as bringing some
much needed "glitz" and dare I say consumerism to the formal and
informal learning sector. http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/
Whilst I know that politics with a small p have dogged so much in this
sector, this might prove to be an interesting model for collaboration in
the future?
And finally, an overt plug for the STEM Directories - even if I was the
project manager from creation to the end of 2009!
www.stemdirectories.org.uk now has over 350 STEM enrichment and
enhancement activities for teachers and home educators and is a site
generally well liked by both the E&E and teacher communities. Again,
this is an interesting model for a starting point to ensure that both
providers of engagement opportunities and their customers - in this case
teachers - understand each other and also engage on development of the
STEM intervention or product for mutual benefit. I'm sure this model
could be replicated across public engagement areas - in fact, aren't the
Beacons charged with this very task?
Juliet
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