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 […]
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:
Early on the first day at Nissan, we tried our hands at launching F1 in Schools cars. They’re a bit on the quick side – this is what they look like at a quarter speed.
Nissan, for the start of the F1 in Schools challenge. Here’s what you looked like as you were learning the ropes of CAD:
A day of context, background, and contrast – how was engineering perceived a hundred years ago? Here are my snapshots from the day:
As the centre of all things Think Physics (other than the coffee machine), Think Lab can get a little… let’s just say busy. Recently, however, organisational salvation has arrived in the form of a gigantic pair of Gratnells cupboards. For a while we mostly stared at them in awe, but the delivery of a vast shipment of lab […]
Dr. Ken Rice from the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Astronomy will be here at Northumbria University on 18th June, speaking on the formation of extrasolar planets. To date we’ve confirmed the existence of almost 2,000 planets beyond our solar system – come and discover how they formed and evolved in this Institute of Physics-organised lecture. The event will […]
The Centre for Life’s forthcoming live science show In a Spin is being produced in collaboration with Think Physics. Today, therefore, has involved much sketching, planning and calculating, as Joe and Duncan from Life build props and set-pieces for the show. Don’t be fooled by the cobbled-together appearance of the strip of lightbulbs above. Oh, no. That is […]
Yesterday, National Public Radio in the US published an interview with an astronomer, in which he’s quoted saying: “Many scientists, I think, secretly are what I call ‘boys with toys’.” Many other scientists are, of course, not boys at all. But they still have toys, and for the last eleven hours or so Twitter has been […]
Ofsted have published an analysis of the numbers and proportions of girls and boys studying A-level subjects in England: Until now there has been no single source of data for schools or inspectors to consult that sets out the numbers and proportions of girls and boys that progress from Year 11 to AS levels and then from […]
