The latest electronics news related to STEM education in all its forms.
The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) has announced it is partnering again with Apple and UK universities to run its Girls into Electronics programme in the summer. This year, one-day events will take place at 15 of the UKESF’s partner universities. They aim to give young students a positive experience of electronics and overcome perceived barriers to entering the profession. ...
Lancaster University and the micro:bit Educational Foundation are collaborating on a research hub, MIRL. It will address innovations in physical computing and digital education. MIRL stands for the micro:bit Innovation and Research Lab. Its work will centre on the BBC micro:bit, 11 million of which have been distributed in the last decade. The pocket-sized programmable computer, it is estimated, has ...
A north-east school has partnered with solar and space physics experts from Northumbria University for a project supported by a Royal Society Partnership Grant, which aims to bring academic research and STEM careers to life. Year 7 pupils are among those from Whytrig Middle School in Seaton Delaval who have already visited the university’s Northumbria Space Technology Laboratory (NSTL) to ...
University College Birmingham (UCB) is celebrating the first cohorts of students through both its Advanced High Voltage (HV) Battery Assembly and Gigafactory Operations courses. Specifically, attendees from Jaguar Land Rover, Atlas Copco and Autocraft graduated from a dedicated learning facility within the UCB. The five day courses are described by the university as the first, fully accredited, advanced battery courses ...
The UK defence specialist Babcock will lead a new STEM pilot in Plymouth as part of a Government £182m national skills drive. The initiative aims to address skills gaps in engineering, cyber and other defence sectors. And a priority will be attracting those with little to no prior STEM engagement. Neil Young, Babcock’s Global Engineering Capability Director, is leading the ...
Lancaster University has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education in recognition of its work for the BBC micro:bit. It is the UK’s highest education honour. The sole academic institution involved with developing the device, Lancaster University created the micro:bit’s run-time operating system. And it also helped deliver the hardware and shaped the coding experience. The handheld, programmable STEM ...
Upon receipt of $6m in Chips Act funding, Oregon-based Rogue Valley Microdevices looked out-of-state to open its second facility. It will soon be opening the 50,000 sq ft facility in Palm Bay, Florida, expected to be the first 300mm-capable pureplay MEMS foundry in the US. “We tried for quite a few years to expand in Oregon,” said co-founder and CEO ...
Conrad is stocking the Calliope Joy-Car educational robot from Joy-iT. “It features a horn, indicator lights, headlights, reversing and brake lights as well as line tracking, ultrasound, infrared and wheel speed sensors,” said Conrad. “Depending on your programming skills, these modules can be operated by a variety of both entry and advanced programming languages, simulating the behaviour of an autonomously ...
Girls Can Engineer is a book aimed at getting more girls interested in engineering careers, according to its publisher Pertemps Network: “The key message is that there are no barriers to girls following careers in science, technology, engineering and maths – STEM – sectors.” Aimed at at girls aged seven to nine, “Tech She Can helps all children, especially girls, ...
The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) is launching its Skills Charter. It is a way for the charity to officially recognise employers that enable young people to thrive in electronics. Recognition The foundation began by recognising 33 employers, for “their commitment to equipping the next generation of engineers with technical and non-technical skills needed by our industry”. “The UKESF ...
