{"id":9196,"date":"2022-06-24T09:56:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T08:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2022-08-02T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:05:06","slug":"engaging-children-in-stem-through-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/engaging-children-in-stem-through-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging Children in STEM Through Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the success of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/stem-through-storytelling\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/stem-through-storytelling\/\">this year\u2019s scientist storytelling program in schools<\/a>, the DETI Inspire team alongside the West of England STEM Ambassador hub is once again offering the highly requested training session to scientists in the South West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Training session is taking place on 13<sup>th<\/sup> July, 4 \u2013 6pm at UWE\u2019s Frenchay campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once trained, STEM Ambassadors will take specially selected books into schools to read \u2013 the books are selected from a collection that features stories with people from minority ethnicity backgrounds, women, and those with a neurodivergent brain having fun with science! These stories, and the real-life scientists reading them enable children to see a more diverse picture of science , helping them to \u201csee themselves\u201d as scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Get Involved<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To ensure the continued success of this outreach activity and visit more schools and children, we\u2019re looking for more ambassadors to sign up to the free training session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are already an approved STEM Ambassador, you can view the offer and sign up to the event here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stem.org.uk\/platform\/activity\/5e4f397b-df05-4db5-94a2-357bd195851a\">https:\/\/www.stem.org.uk\/platform\/activity\/5e4f397b-df05-4db5-94a2-357bd195851a<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If not, you can register interest through the following Eventbrite link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/curiousstories.eventbrite.co.uk\">https:\/\/curiousstories.eventbrite.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re running the training as a hybrid event, with Zoom as an option if you can\u2019t make it in, however, we highly recommend you join us face-to-face on the 13<sup>th<\/sup> of July &nbsp;at UWE Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The session will last approximately 2 hours and will be led by an experienced primary educator (Jane Carter from UWE\u2019s Education unit) who will teach &nbsp;you how to present fantastic stereotype-challenging stories to children. And you\u2019ll get a chance to have a go! Readings in schools will take place during the new school year (September 2022 onwards) and also during Bristol\u2019s Storytale Festival in October halfterm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the success of this year\u2019s scientist storytelling program in schools, the DETI Inspire team alongside the West of England STEM Ambassador hub is once again offering the highly requested training session to scientists in the South West. Training session is taking place on 13th July, 4 \u2013 6pm at UWE\u2019s Frenchay campus. Once trained, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/engaging-children-in-stem-through-storytelling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Engaging Children in STEM Through Storytelling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":9648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,26,30,131,72,29,10,32,25],"class_list":["post-9196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-bristol-robotics-laboratory","tag-curiosity-connections","tag-diversity","tag-diversity-in-stem","tag-leaders-award","tag-outreach","tag-primary-engineer","tag-women-in-stem","tag-women-like-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196","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=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9649,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions\/9649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}