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There are a handful of places remaining at each of the following FREE evaluation workshops 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. 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. 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). 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 [log in to unmask] To register please go to http://www.big.uk.com/events/evaluation/ ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk 6. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] **********************************************************************