Entries by Jonathan
Last Week, in Think Physics…
[you’ll have to imagine one of us reading this first line with some dramatic music playing in the background] Previously, in Think Physics… Joe was in The Netherlands last week for the UNAWE Workshops – a worldwide primary space education conference. Hosted at Leiden University, with delegates from more than 25 countries, he reports excellent lunches and some useful […]
Teacher Subject Specialism Training: Secondary Physics
In an attempt to address the shortage of secondary physics teachers, the Department for Education is backing training to support non-physics-specialist teachers (or teachers wishing to return to the profession) in making the transition. A range of training opportunities are available, primarily courses with multiple sessions through the school year from October 2015. In the North-East, such courses […]
Making Apple Watch
As a counterpoint to Monday’s post about building giant ships by throwing huge slabs of steel around, here’s the opposite end of the metalworking spectrum: the precision metallurgy and machining that goes into making Apple Watch. Product Designer Greg Koenig has a terrific blog post which dissects what little Apple has said about the Watch with a […]
Watch a gigantic ship being built in six minutes
Projects like Think Physics spend a lot of time illustrating how engineering careers mostly aren’t about welding or metalwork. But there’s still something plain cool about seeing huge slabs of steel being thrown around by massive cranes and slotted together like oversize Lego. This video is the cruise ship AIDAprima being built in Nagasaki, Japan, between June 2013 […]
Upcoming Events!
Be sure to check out our nifty new Upcoming Events calendar, handily linked from the main menu of every page across the site. We’ll be filling it with a range of stuff we’re doing but also events from project partners, or that we think you might find interesting. For example, this Wednesday the North-East branch of the […]
North-East Skills 2015
We’ve been to Mars. Not literally. We’d be the radiation-fried husks of the team formerly known as ‘Think Physics’ if we’d tried, not to mention somewhat over-budget. No, this week we took a model of Mars to the North-East Skills event. Here’s what our stand looked like, and some of the things visitors did with us: Our intrepid […]
Science Communication MSc
Think Physics is based at Northumbria University, where it just so happens we run a Science Communication MSc course as a joint endeavour with the Centre for Life (who are also a Think Physics partner – are you spotting a pattern here?). There are several such courses in the country, notably the ones run by Imperial College and […]
Register your school for BBC micro:bit
Confused by Raspberry Pi and Arduino (not to mention Espruino, Beagleboard, Edison, and all the rest)? Don’t despair, things are about to get even more convoluted! The BBC are introducing a whole new platform to the education mix, with their micro:bit available to every year 7 child in the UK. The board itself is the centrepiece of […]
Day 5: Nissan
Barely 48 hours after being introduced to F1 in Schools, and the track is cleared for your own creations to be raced. I’ve a few video clips to pull together, but in the meantime here are the stills:
