Here is a list of activities that Ambassadors are needed for in the next few months. If you’re interested in volunteering for any of these opportunities, please email admin@setpointherts.org.ukor call 01438 755075

Activity / Event Name Date of Activity Venue & Location Time of Activity Other information
Link Ambassador Required ongoing Wheatcoft School (Hertford) To liase with the school to provide STEM related activities as required.
Silver CREST ongoing Verulum CREST Mentor
A cross-curricular project for Y9 called “Discovering the Deep” – they will be doing lots of different things releated to the Sea, including a project on the science of living underwater from 28th June til the end of summer term (July 20th) St Clement Danes School Any Ambassadors would be welcome to go along for anything from 1h to 1day to support.
K'nex Catapult Challenge - Work Related Learning Y8 15th July Hemel Hempstead All day (8.30-3.30) STEM Activity day as part of school work-related-learning week. We need an Ambassador (or 2) to help out with an activity: a challenge to build a catapult capable of firing a certain height & distance using K'nex. Your role would be to give a 5 min talk about yourself & your job in each of 3 sessions, then help out with the challenge, talk to students etc.
CREST in a Day 15th July Bushey Meads All Day Challenge day involving 3 practical activities. Ambassadors needed to go along and meet students, help out with activities etc
Big Bang Regional Event 16th July Duxford IWM nr Cambridge 8.15 - 1pm Judges needed for assessing student projects at this regional fair. Following a training session first thing in the morning, you will be paired with another judge (someone who has done it before if you have not) and will then judge 4-6 projects over ~ 2 hours. After lunch (provided) you are welcome to stay for the show (Lucy Hawking and the Naked Scientists) and prizegiving or leave ~1pm.
K'nex Catapult Challenge - Work Related Learning Y8 19th July Hemel Hempstead All day (8.30-3.30) STEM Activity day as part of school work-related-learning week. We need an Ambassador (or 2) to help out with an activity: a challenge to build a catapult capable of firing a certain height & distance using K'nex. Your role would be to give a 5 min talk about yourself & your job in each of 3 sessions, then help out with the challenge, talk to students etc.
Technology/Smart Materials "Marketing Mouldy Mugs" workshop 20th July Hemel Hempstead All Day STEM Activity day as part of school work-related-learning week. We need an Ambassador (or 2) to help with our Plastazote technology/smart materials/marketing workshop "Marketing Mouldy Mugs". Your role would be to give a 5 min talk about yourself & your job in each of 3 sessions, then help out with the challenge, talk to students etc.
Tower Building Challenge 20th July Hemel Hempstead All Day STEM Activity day as part of school work-related-learning week. We need 2 Ambassadors to help with a Tower building workshop (either paper engineering or spaghetti/blu tac - tbc). Your role would be to give a 5 min talk about yourself & your job in each of 3 sessions, then help out with the challenge, talk to students etc, help with the judging.
Summer School Aviation Monday 26th to Friday 30th July Bushey Meads School One half day A week of Summer school for KS2/3 students who are learing about flight. Practical activities will be undertaken as the subjects of balooning, gliding and kites are discovered. A rocket project with decent chute will also be built and launched using compressed air.
Café Sientifique meetings Sept onwards Queens School Evenings Biology and Chemistry demos to KS 4&5 students and their parents. A series of events are planned to run during the evenings starting in September. A biologists and chemist are sought to each deliver a short presentation and demo and to answer questions about life in their profession.
Long Term plan - whole school focus on the same design/product preferably linked to a local designer. during the next academic year St Catherine's Primary school, Hoddesdon We need a designer that would be willing to come in, and possibly hold a staff meeting to share how they make their product, a term before working with the pupils in order for our staff to feed this into their planning? Contact: Jo Howard by emailling: jhoward99@stcaths.herts.sch.uk
Ambassador required to mentor CREST project Parmiters school in Watford Project info is “Aeronautical engineering: investigating how the material that gliders are made of affects their flight distance”. If interested get in touch with us & we’ll put you in touch with the school.
Cross-curricular course in Y9 for the first 8 wks of the autumn term linking Science, Technology & Mathematics. The them is “Mission To Mars”. during the first 8 weeks of Autumn term 2010 (starting w/c September 6th) Bushey Meads They are looking for Ambassadors with either experience to do with Space, or experience to do with textiles, design or graphic products. They could either pop in to do a short talk about their job/life route from school-present, or help out with the relevant unit (e.g. a graphic designer could help out with the design unit) for a half-day perhaps. Several different units are studied, including textiles, graphics & graphic products, all on the theme of Space.

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