STEM News

The Science Museum opens a significant new gallery dedicated to world-changing engineering innovations and the diverse and fascinating range of people behind them.

The Science Museum, alongside major funder the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering and major sponsor MathWorks, has been working tirelessly to bring ‘Engineers’ to life – a new permanent exhibition on display opening on Friday 23rd June – to fall in-line with International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) – with the goal of bringing the human aspect of engineering to the fore.

As the sector gears up to celebrate International Women in Engineering Day (23 June), EngineeringUK has released a new report which brings together the available evidence on interventions that aim to increase girls’ aspirations for engineering and technology careers.

element14 and Hackster, two Avnet communities, announced the launch of the ‘Little Free STEM Library Design Challenge,’ encouraging their communities of makers, designers, and engineers to host, build or upgrade a local Little Free Library with the STEM experience.

On Saturday 17th June, Robin Theakston and Charlie Gunn, best friends turned business partners, hosted a girls-only STEM coding event at their dojo, Code Ninjas, at Bucks New University.

OKdo, part of the RS Group, has been selected as one of Micro:bit Educational Foundation’s global manufacturers and distributors.

Generation Alpha is spending more time socialising and playing online than in the real world, according to new research from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)1.

As London Tech Week kicks off, specialist recruitment firm, Robert Half, has highlighted the need for skills development to be prioritised if the UK’s position as the third leading tech economy is to be maintained or improved.

The UK’s engineering academics have called for greater visibility for the subject in schools as a way of tackling labour shortfalls and the need to find environmental solutions, following a poll by NMITE (New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering) and the Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC). 

With just two weeks to go, excitement is building for the return of the popular Big Bang Fair  –  the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) for young people in the UK.