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Fun Engineering Project for Primary Schools – Inspiring the Engineers of the Future

22/02/202103/03/2021 Lakhvir Singh

The popular and successful IMechE “fan boats in primary schools” initiative, developed by Fellow and STEM educator Caroline Alliston, was launched in Western region in 2015. It was subsequently adopted in the Midland and South Eastern regions. A planned roll out in Scotland last year was postponed due to the pandemic. Now, in collaboration with…

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CW-AQPC Prize

11/11/202011/11/2020 Lakhvir Singh

C4FF’s Business Centre, Berkeley House (BH) has nominated a prize (Involving Pupils in Climate Action Activities) to CW-AQPC for presentation to Allesley Hall School. The Prize is a C4FF certificate and £250 donated by BH. The pupils from the school were involved in doing the gardens and ground work. Their work was considered worthy of…

Air Quality Monitoring Project

02/10/202002/10/2020 Lakhvir Singh

Professor Reza Ziarati, chairman of C4FF and coordinator of INSPIRE Group had a meeting with Kathryn Kroon (STEM Coordinator – Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes; STEM Ambassador Hub East Midlands). Kathryn shared a copy help sheets compiled explaining the project and to support the sensor build for the summer projects and a photo of the kit box delivered to ambassadors and students. Kathryn mentioned that they are only at the start of our project in the East Midlands as Kathryn and her group have not been able to get into schools. Due to supporting the Nuffield and NCS projects over the summer they have in essence trialled out these kits prior to going into schools and she have been working with 16-17-year-old students. In the East Midlands they have engaged STEM Ambassadors to ease the process of their technical installation and use in schools at both primary and secondary level.

AQM kit Box

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Click to see AQM Project Help sheet

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School Assignment: Winners awarded at the Midlands Engineering Dinner

19/12/201919/12/2019 Lakhvir Singh

This year Professor Ziarati has chaired and organised the Midlands Engineering Dinner. At the dinner, the winners of Air Quality School Assignment were awarded by Professor Ziarati. To read the full report, click here

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School Assignment: Pollution in the Air – A Local and Global Concern

19/12/2019 Lakhvir Singh

1. Air Emission Overview As the booming in industrialisation and shipping industries have taken place in last few decades, the use of fossil fuel or Hydrocarbon has also increased drastically. The fossil fuel consists of Hydrogen, Carbon and Sulphur which, when burnt, turn into water vapour, CO2 and CO, various kinds of Sulphur Oxides (SOx),…

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Supporting STEM at Schools

11/03/2019 Lakhvir Singh

Visit was made to Kingsley Primary and Secondary Schools in Leamington, Warwickshire. The purpose of the visit was to consider establishing pilot Imagineering Club and as to this can integrate with the schools own STEM/STEAM efforts. Professor Bob Shanks (Imagineering Coordinator) and Professor Reza Ziarati (C4FF Chairman) visited the schools and had discussions with key…

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C4FF and BAU Participation at BETT Conference

11/03/201911/03/2019 Lakhvir Singh

MariFuture team participated at the Bett Conference in London 22-24 January 2019. Photo 1 – Mr Hussein Yucel, representing the BAU TR making a keynote speech at the Bett Conference in London. Photo 2 – The student from BAU TR schools presenting their STEM success in Turkey.

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Coventry Godiva Festival

12/06/201712/06/2017 Lakhvir Singh No Comments

Coventry Godiva Festival is billed as the UK’s biggest free family music festival and is now in its 19th year. Based in the city’s historic War Memorial Park, the three-day event offers great live music, family entertainment, international food and drink, craft village and children’s fun fair!
Organised by Coventry City Council with the support of partners, the festival prides itself on offering the best of Coventry and Warwickshire backed up by top national artists and performers.

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Visit to the Imagineer Productions

03/04/201703/04/2017 Lakhvir Singh No Comments

On Tuesday 21st March Professor Ziarati and his assistant, Maria Veligrantaki, visited the Imagineer Productions workplace based in Coventry to find out more about what they are doing and their plans for the future. Jane Hytch gave us a good summary of their work and showed us some of the projects they were working as well as talking to us about some their past projects. While the visit lasted only an hour it was very informative about their work and plans.

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The engineering gap – BBC report

11/11/2016 Lakhvir Singh No Comments

A recent BBC report has highlighted the need for creating awareness among children at the very earlier stage which is inline with INSPIRE project idea about Introducing STEM in schools to encourage children to study STEM in their high studies. BBC has reported that women make up around just 8% of engineers in the UK. To read…

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