Hi Ian

Thanks for your email.

Your nearest workshop is Bristol which is 78 miles away from Reading – not too far a trek and easily manageable if you apply for one of our travel and accommodation bursaries which we are offering too.

We have no plans or funding to run anything else in the near future so I do hope you can juggle your plans to attend one of the three seminars.

Sarah

 

 

Hi Sarah

I would love to come to one of the evaluation seminars but they are either way too far away to make it worthwhile or I am unavailable.

I don't suppose there is any chance of you running one in somewhere like Reading is there? Then people in my part of the world might be able to make it.

I have finally got hold of a copy the guidance leaflet. Any chance of telling small time operators like me what sort of assessment we should do without having to come to a seminar?

All the best

Ian

Sarah Vining wrote:

Effective Evaluation for STEM E&E Providers

 

Wednesday 21 July, Newcastle

Thursday 2 September, Bristol

Monday 6 September, Birmingham

 

Attendance at these workshops is FREE OF CHARGE and a limited number of bursaries for travel and accommodation for these seminars has been provided by the National STEM Centre. If you would like to be considered for a bursary, please tell us why you need support when you register (you must include approximate costs).

 

One of the key aims of STEM Enhancement & Enrichment providers is to help young people, teachers, schools and colleges to participate fully in STEM.  Evaluating activities appropriately is essential to providing schools and colleges with confidence that activities are worthwhile and matched to their students’ needs. Effective evaluation is also a crucial way to assure funders that their money is being well spent, and helps you as STEM providers ensure that your activities are operating as effectively and efficiently as possible.

The Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Interactive Group (BIG) are working together to offer active seminars supporting you as STEM providers in understanding and implementing effective evaluation; the seminars will provide evaluation tools, resources, and information about support networks. Each one-day event aims to address needs raised by the STEM Directories’ future requirement that you make publicly available an appropriate evaluation of your work.

The seminars are intended to provide basic knowledge about simple and suitable evaluation and start you on the road to developing evaluations of your own. Thanks to funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the seminars are provided free of charge and a limited amount of financial support for travel and accommodation has also been provided by the National STEM Centre.

Links to the BIG Event:       

Delegates should note that the July seminar runs alongside the first day of the British Interactive Group (BIG) Event (21 – 23 July at the Centre for Life and CultureLab, Newcastle).

 

The BIG Event is BIG’s annual conference, attracting around 150 delegates over three days. The Event aims to bring together individuals in the field of STEM E&E provision to share skills and ideas, improve practice, join the important discussions in the STEM agenda, and grow the network of STEM professionals. A wide range of professionals attend, including freelancers and those based in organisations such as universities, professional bodies, science centres, museums, zoos, education support centres and NGOs.

 

Delegates for this seminar are welcome to attend the following days of the BIG Event (22-23 July) but will need to register for it separately.

 

Evening networking event

If attending the July seminar, you are invited to attend an early–evening networking event of drinks and hands-on science hosted by the Centre for Life on Wednesday 21 July. Please contact BIG for further information.

 

 

Contact for enquiries:          

British Interactive Group

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To register please go to http://www.big.uk.com/events/evaluation/

 

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