More free equipment for schools

Heads of Science and of Design & Technology departments in maintained secondaries throughout the UK were offered free science and technology kit from the SEP and TEP. All the science equipment went very quickly. As this is written, there is still some technology kit left. So move fast if you want some. If you are lucky, your equipment should arrive in the New Year.
All this was made possible by The Royal Society of London, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Middlesex University, the National Centre for Biotechnology Education (NCBE), the Science Enhancement Programme (SEP), the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP) and SAPS (Science & Plants for Schools).

Calling all Codebreakers

The University of Southampton is challenging young people across the UK to try their hand at cracking codes. The competition (which has a prize fund of £10,000) is sponsored by EducationGuardian.co.uk, the EPSRC and IBM. There are large cash prizes for the winners and, in order to encourage schools to take part, the EPSRC has offered to match the individual prizes with cash for teaching resources in Maths, Science and Technology. The top prize of £1,800 will go to the first individual or team to crack the last and hardest cipher and their school will win the IBM Cipher Challenge School Prize - an IBM Thinkpad laptop computer. So, go to www.maths.soton.ac.uk/cipher/newspaper02.htm, get the info, get deciphering and good luck!

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Hard at work, making the nursery garden with funding from the first round of Science Year in Scotland grants


  

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Scottish finallists in the
JEB/K'NEX Challenge 2002
with their bridge

Link with Sweden needed

Stierneskolan School in Sweden would like ot link up with a Scottish secondary school, particularly for collaboration in the area of Electrical Engineering and Automation. Stierneskolan is an upper secondary school for vocational education in Torsby, in the western part of the country (also the home town of England's football manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson). The pupils are aged between 16 and 19.
A school in the Central Belt (near Edinburgh or Glasgow) would be their preference, if possible. If your school or college would be interested, please contact Lasse Holmgren by email (lasse.holmgren@torsby.se)

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Building jitterbugs during
National Science Week

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Science Challenge project for Science Year, displayed at the Celebration Event
 
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