Stem Teacher Meet13th October 2011

Gareth McGrathICT TeacherHardenhuish School

Activities 2010-20112nd Feb 2011 STEM Ambassadors

& Teachers Meeting23rd Mar 2011 Initial contact with

Web Usability partnership28th Mar 2011Initial contact with

QinetiQ

Participation in the STEM Challenge 6

Web Usability Partnership

Dr Burton-Taylor at WUP came out to speak to students about the importance of testing systems effectively, with particular focus on the Client and User needs.

They also are always on the look out for testers

QinetiQQinetiQ

◦aerospace ◦defence ◦security

For activities week in July 2011 we had engineering experts work alongside our students on Robotic challenges over three days

STEM challenge 6

From early April until the 19th May we entered the STEM Challenge 6

On the 19th May judging for the event took place at Hardenhuish

Judging representatives from industry took place Azaria Frost (British Computing Society) Dr Sarah Burton-Taylor (WUP) as well as the GoCatalyst team

Looking forward to 2011-2012

Up an coming projects:◦ AGAT app event◦ Writing computer

programming into the keystage 3 SOW

◦ Trips to the Computing Museum Swindon

◦ Robotics Clubs

Industry links we would like to contact:◦ BCS◦ BMW??◦ INTEL◦ Bletchley Park◦ App Developers

gjm@hardenhuish.wilts.sch.uk