{"id":16939,"date":"2025-06-26T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=16939"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:39:54","slug":"uwe-engineering-at-cheltenham-science-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/uwe-engineering-at-cheltenham-science-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"UWE Engineering at Cheltenham Science Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year’s Cheltenham Science Festival<\/a> was again attended by UWE’s Inspire Sustainability team, providing an exciting STEM activity for the thousands of school children that came along. The team had an activity stand in the festival’s ‘Discover Zone’, along with other festival partners bringing STEM to life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team brought their popular ‘Power our Future’ activity<\/a>, which invites children to become engineers to design and build the best wind turbine blades, generating the most clean energy! The teams must consider the shape, size, angle, and material of their blade design, as well as choosing how many to build! Then test their designs on the real wind turbine, and generate as much energy as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The activity is designed to encourage children to think like an engineer and follow the ‘engineering design process’, whilst also bringing together some key learning around sustainability and how we as a society need to move faster towards renewable energy sources like wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The week was a great success with thousands of children making their way through the festival’s ‘Discover Zone’ over six very busy days. The UWE stand saw a lot of interest and every team had their team name and score placed on the leaderboard! We particularly loved the creativity with team names, and congratulations to team ‘Pancake Grandpa’ that ended up winning the week with a score of over 11 volts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The team and the stand at Cheltenham was also supported by the IMechE, you can find more information about them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also find information about the workshops and outreach that the Inspire Sustainability team provide by visiting the curiosityconnections.net<\/a> site, or by emailing the team on engineeringourfuture@uwe.ac.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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