TechFest is delighted to announce the launch of STEM Next – an essay competition exploring the future of STEM research.
Find out about the TechFest programmes available for early years and primary school aged students here.
Find out about the TechFest programmes available for secondary school aged students here.
Interactive STEM workshops provided and delivered by TechFest for early years settings, primary schools and ASN.
How many of us when we look around ever stop to think about the engineers behind what we see, use, eat, what we have in our homes, our shops on our roads, our medicines, plastics, electronics in fact everything we have today?
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Explore how they can be applied in real life situations.
A practical look at how Maths can be applied to the financial sector for S2 pupils.
Learn about Space and Forces with the TechFest Dome, a mobile planetarium which primary, secondary schools and local community groups can enjoy.
A one-day event designed to give students an insight into the oil and gas industry.
A project-based awards scheme for the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) delivered in Scotland by TechFest on behalf of the British Science Association. CREST recognises success, and enables students to build their skills and demonstrate personal achievement in project work. It offers educators an easy-to-run framework for curriculum enhancement and is student-led, which means that young people take ownership of their projects and choose to undertake them in areas they enjoy.
Presented by Andrew Holding, University of York
Of all the slang names for the British, none is more iconic than 'Limey'. While the term provokes majestic images of the Golden Age of Sail, scurvy cost countless sailors and seamen their lives. It was once not unheard of for nine out of every ten members of a ship's crew to have succumbed to scurvy by the time it returned to port. It is often said that results of James Lind's work on the HMS Salisbury in 1747 led to a cure and saved innumerable lives. Yet, 100 years later, in Cherry-Garrard's account of Robert Falcon Scott's 1911 expedition to the South Pole, he writes: "There was little scurvy in Nelson's days; but the reason is not clear, since, according to modern research, lime-juice only helps to prevent it". So what happened, how is it that scientific research showed limes didn't cure scurvy when once they were a miracle cure.
