What do Computing students do? STEM

Ben Foward, a second year student within the Department of Computing and Immersive  Technologies, University of Northampton, has been actively involved with STEM outreach activities. These include running activities but also being the student representative on the university-wide STEM Steering Group (http://mypad.northampton.ac.uk/stem/stem-steering-group/) . 

A example of an activity taken from http://mypad.northampton.ac.uk/stem/2014/10/29/be-steam-event-success/ is shown below:

Students were able to find out how they can get involved in the University’s STEM Champion Programme, and the growing STEM network and the aims of the STEM Steering Group which represents staff and students from across Schools and professional services.

Activities were led by STEM Champions including Ben Forward and Eunice Quason who demonstrated Greenscreening techniques (part of the Digital Leaders project), Ronan Egan and Julia Taylor who challenged fellow students to see how clean their hands and environment were, Izzie Trott cooked up some exciting experiments in her Kitchen Chemistry and Murhib Uddin got students thinking about introducing children to engineering through his Knex Challenge.

For more information go to: http://mypad.northampton.ac.uk/stem/


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