{"id":248,"date":"2018-10-16T19:21:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=248"},"modified":"2018-10-17T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:30:49","slug":"children-as-engineers-shortlisted-for-stem-inspiration-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/children-as-engineers-shortlisted-for-stem-inspiration-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Children as Engineers shortlisted for STEM Inspiration Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.uwe.ac.uk\/research\/sciencecommunicationunit\/projects\/childrenasengineers.aspx\">Children as Engineers<\/a>, a collaboration between the UWE Bristol Department of Education and Childhood and Department of Engineering, Design and Mathematics run by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.uwe.ac.uk\/research\/sciencecommunicationunit\/scumembers\/researchstaff\/laurafoggrogers.aspx\">Laura Fogg-Rogers<\/a>\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/JulietEdmonds\">Juliet Edmonds<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/faylewis\">Dr Fay Lewis<\/a>, has been shortlisted for an <strong>Inspirational STEM Engagement Project Award<\/strong> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stem.org.uk\/news-and-views\/news\/congratulations-shortlisted-nominees-stem-inspiration-awards\">2018 STEM Inspiration Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Funded by HEFCE, the project paired student engineers and pre-service teachers to undertake engineering design challenges in primary schools. Research shows that children (particularly girls) develop their attitudes towards STEM as a potential career before the age of 11, yet only\u00a05% of primary school teachers have a science related degree. Children as Engineers aimed to improve teachers\u2019 attitudes to science and engineering, leading to a positive impact not only on children\u2019s performance, but also on their engagement and enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/CaE112-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/CaE112-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/CaE112-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/06\/CaE112.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The project built on <a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.uwe.ac.uk\/26053\/\">previous research<\/a>\u00a0 funded by the Engineering Professors\u2019 Council, Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Engineering and Technology and supported by Mazak. Children as Engineers\u00a0also developed a UWE Bristol undergraduate degree module called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/science-communication\/engineering-in-society-new-module-for-engineering-citizenship\/\">Engineering and Society<\/a>\u2019. This pairs engineering students with teachers to bring hands-on science programmes into primary schools, aiming to address science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills gaps in primary schools \u2013 for teachers and children.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will be announced at the STEM Inspiration Awards celebration event in the House of Lords on 1<sup>st<\/sup> November 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children as Engineers, a collaboration between the UWE Bristol Department of Education and Childhood and Department of Engineering, Design and Mathematics run by\u00a0Laura Fogg-Rogers\u00a0with Juliet Edmonds and Dr Fay Lewis, has been shortlisted for an Inspirational STEM Engagement Project Award in the 2018 STEM Inspiration Awards. Funded by HEFCE, the project paired student engineers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/children-as-engineers-shortlisted-for-stem-inspiration-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Children as Engineers shortlisted for STEM Inspiration Awards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}