We’re making a bit of a habit of this: NUSTEM have won the STEM Initiative Award from the Educate North Awards, which celebrate achievements across Higher Education, Further Education, and Sixth Form sectors in the North of England.

Specifically, the STEM Communities project on which we’ve been collaborating with Woodhorn Museum in Ashington has won. This is an STFC-funded project through which families with children aged 8-11 are building their own STEM Community, through a combination of school- and museum-based workshops. It’s an exciting project for us, not least because we get to work with the lovely team at Woodhorn, but also because they’re committed to building a properly inclusive, community-owned exploration of STEM and heritage topics. A lot of thought, care, and enthusiasm has gone into the process, and we’re delighted the collaboration has been recognised through this award.

There’s more about the Educate North Awards on Northumbria’s blog (we weren’t the only Northumbria winners this year!), and more about the STEM Communities project at Woodhorn’s site.

Oh, and ‘making a habit of it?’ — this is our third consecutive Educate North Award.