STEM Clubs Network

The STEM Clubs Network is a nationwide network of after school clubs focusing on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM subjects), launched in September 2009. Membership of the network is free, and benefits include online resources, advice, ideas, networking with teachers in a similar position, and practical support from a dedicated STEM Clubs Adviser, based at the Science Learning Centre East of England.

We would like to encourage you to register any existing clubs that are already running within your school – this could be any kind of Science club, Engineering club, D&T club, IT club, Maths club etc, or a club running with a national scheme such as First Lego League, GreenPower, etc.

Also, if you are looking to start a new club, the network can support you in this. There is a dedicated Club Adviser based at the SLC in Hertford, Julie Webb, who is available to support schools with STEM clubs once they have affiliated to the network.

 Registering is simple – email join@stemclubs.net with your name & school name & address.

Clubs - download our NEW Be Engineous activities (age 9-14)
A new activity programme, ‘Be ENGineous’, has been launched in time for the start of the Young Engineers Club year!
‘Be ENGineous’ has been designed to follow on from the ‘Get Them Going’ introductory programme and gives Young Engineers club leaders a ready-made programme to develop the engineering skills of club members that have already had an introduction to engineering. ‘Be ENGineous’ enables club members to progress further by working on more complex scenarios.

The programme provides an exciting mix of activities relating to different branches of engineering. Each activity has been split into 3 stages; the stages are indications of the difficulty levels of the activity:

* Stage 1 – Basic level; step by step instructions to complete the activity.

* Stage 2 – Intermediate level; follows on from stage 1 where students are required to build
  upon the completed stage 1 activity, not necessarily with instructions.

* Stage 3 – Higher level; students are required to research and develop the final stage of the
  activity, without instructions.

The activities included in the programme are:  Hovercraft – General Engineering Bath Bombs – Chemical Engineering FM Radios – Electrical Engineering Water Purification – Civil Engineering Putt Putt Boats – Marine Engineering Cranes – Mechanical Engineering Rambling Robots – Robotic Engineering.

The whole booklet can be downloaded from our Complete Activity programme webpage. The individual activities are also available on the activity bank, and are suitable for using as standalone activities.

Young Engineers is grateful to Tomorrow’s Engineers for supporting the development of this programme.

If you want to access this you need to register for FREE with the Young Engineers club network

The Science Museum’s STEM Clubs Scheme
An opportunity for secondary teachers. This popular scheme, now in its fourth year, is aimed at schools who are either considering starting a KS3 STEM club or who are already running a club and are looking for more ideas and solutions to issues they may have encountered.

The scheme consists of:
• A one-day training course on Thursday 26 January 2012 at the Science Museum in London for up to three members of staff from each participating school. This can include, NQTs, technicians and anyone else involved in the club.
• A Celebration Day at the Science Museum on Monday 9 July 2012 for up to 30 members of the club packed full of activities and events and a chance to meet students from other STEM clubs.
• Two of our popular STEM resources worth approximately £250 – either Crime Lab and Mars Mission or Launchbox and Mystery Boxes.

The cost is just £800 (although schools will need to cover their own travel costs for the activities taking place at the Science Museum).

This scheme has proved very popular since we launched it in 2008, so much so that we’ve had schools rejoin the following year to enable more staff to experience the training, gain more resources for their school and reward their students with the Celebration Day event.

Full details about the scheme, including a registration form, can be found at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/scienceclubs.