stem teacher meet 13 th october 2011 gareth mcgrath ict teacher hardenhuish school
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Stem Teacher Meet13th October 2011
Gareth McGrathICT TeacherHardenhuish School
Activities 2010-20112nd Feb 2011 STEM Ambassadors
& Teachers Meeting23rd Mar 2011 Initial contact with
Web Usability partnership28th Mar 2011Initial contact with
QinetiQ
Participation in the STEM Challenge 6
Web Usability Partnership
Dr Burton-Taylor at WUP came out to speak to students about the importance of testing systems effectively, with particular focus on the Client and User needs.
They also are always on the look out for testers
QinetiQQinetiQ
◦aerospace ◦defence ◦security
For activities week in July 2011 we had engineering experts work alongside our students on Robotic challenges over three days
STEM challenge 6
From early April until the 19th May we entered the STEM Challenge 6
On the 19th May judging for the event took place at Hardenhuish
Judging representatives from industry took place Azaria Frost (British Computing Society) Dr Sarah Burton-Taylor (WUP) as well as the GoCatalyst team
Looking forward to 2011-2012
Up an coming projects:◦ AGAT app event◦ Writing computer
programming into the keystage 3 SOW
◦ Trips to the Computing Museum Swindon
◦ Robotics Clubs
Industry links we would like to contact:◦ BCS◦ BMW??◦ INTEL◦ Bletchley Park◦ App Developers