STEM News

Continuing its collaboration with local schools and colleges, members of Xaar visited St. Peter’s School, Huntingdon for its recent STEM day. Supported by the engineering organisation, the Smallpeice Trust, over 50 local Year 10 students attended, with the day held on 18th January deemed a great success.

The EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems (UK-RAS) Network announces the launch of its 2023 competitions, inviting the UK’s primary schoolchildren to share their creative robot designs and imaginative stories with a panel of experts, for a chance to win some unique prizes.

The developers behind the BAFTA nominated phonics game, Teach Your Monster To Read have launched a brand-new game aiming to get kids excited about fruit and vegetables.

Teachers and students hear the term ‘21-century skills’ all the time, and computational thinking is quickly becoming a big part of the conversation.

IF 3D printing and associated digital manufacturing skills are the future then businesses and individuals are being given a golden chance to get ahead of the game - but they need to act now.

Minicoders is the first platform to offer video gaming experiences in the metaverse and educational content intended for children to have fun while also acquiring knowledge on the basics of computer programming.

SEMI, the industry association serving the global electronics design and manufacturing supply chain, has announced key actions proposed by SEMI Europe and European Commission (EC) representatives in consultation with semiconductor industry stakeholders to overcome the skills shortage in Europe’s microelectronics industry.

To excite, inspire and educate girls on the opportunities the cyber security and technology industry has to offer, global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, participated at the EmPowerCyber event, organised by Cyber Cheltenham (CyNam).

The Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) annual Santa Loves STEM campaign is back for another year, with a festive hub full of family friendly engineering and technology-based activities.

Engineering UK announces that The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Competition has opened for entries in 2023. Young people across the UK are being invited to think big, challenge facts, ask questions and invent solutions by entering a project into The Big Bang Competition.