{"id":1612,"date":"2019-12-05T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2019-12-05T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:17:11","slug":"uwe-students-challenge-kids-with-engineering-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/uwe-students-challenge-kids-with-engineering-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"UWE students challenge kids with engineering activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week engineering and teaching students teamed up to bring engineering challenges to children across schools in Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 35 engineering students and 22 education students currently taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/engineering-in-society-new-module-for-engineering-citizenship\/\">Engineering in Society<\/a> module, used their different skill bases to peer mentor one another, and then deliver engaging activities to ~720 pupils at six Bristol schools on Wednesday 27th November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Children aged 8 &#8211; 11 years old at Bannerman Road, Hambrook, Illminster Avenue, May Park, Shield Road and Victoria Park Primary Schools took part in one or more of the activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gliders (High Flyers)<\/li><li>Floating Platform (High and Dry)<\/li><li>Vacuum Cleaner (Super Sucker)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior Lecturer from UWE Bristol and module lead, Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers was enthusiastic about the engineering day. &#8220;Visiting our engineers as they undertake their education outreach is always an exciting experience. Not only do we see our students flourishing, but I can see the impact they are having on the children as well. 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The 35 engineering students and 22 education students currently taking the Engineering in Society module, used their different skill bases to peer mentor one another, and then deliver engaging activities to ~720 pupils at six Bristol schools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/uwe-students-challenge-kids-with-engineering-activities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UWE students challenge kids with engineering activities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,15,24,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering-and-society","category-events","category-outreach","category-schools","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}