STEM Clubs

School: Friesland School Status: Completed Date Started: 4 Feb 2011 Date Completed: 17 Mar 2009 Keywords tags: Trip Technology Science Presentation Energy Electronics No of pupils: 20 Number of views: 8189 Related Resources:

The Second project we did was based on the Stem behind Photography and Lighting. Once again we started the project with a research section this time on Fibre optics. From this we produced posters which were then graded using the national curriculum levels.

One of the highlights of this project was the trip to the national media museum in Bradford where we learnt a lot in a very interactive way. Some of our members tried their hand at hosting the news whilst others opted for presenting the weather. We also had a chance to play with the blue screen howevere our bright blue STEM shirts seemed to blend in rather too well leaving us as bodyless floating heads! In between all this we even managed to squeeze in a trip to the I-Max cinema where we watched a movie about life on a space station. It felt so real some of us even flinched when a orange was thrown towards us on screen.

Soon, we tried our hand at GCSE level electronics and started building kits including solar powered cars, an LDR circuit, burgular alarms and an electronic bug which followed light sources. We know, it was pretty confusing at first but with the help of our electronics teacher, we grasped the idea very quickly.

Also, we were given the opportunity to use the Mac computers at our school and we all had a go at photo edtiting. We all had our photographs taken and we began manipulating and distorting them. The end products of this edtiting tended to be rather weird and in some cases plain scary!

Finally, we took part in a presentation where we demonstrated our electronic kits to our friends and family and we also showed our presentations in groups on our given topics. Afterwards, we ran some small stalls showing any models we had produced and explaining to the audience how we had created our kits. Also, to our embarrassment, the edited photos had been made A4 sized and stuck on a notice board. Not good.

By Ruby Tebbs, Alanna Duff and Elsie Powers