Roving and resdient Scientist STEM Clubs

In addition to her resident scientist work at Gillespie, Science for Life's, Megan Begley, is now delivering STEM Clubs in Islington schools in her capacity as roving scientist. Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils at Gillespie, Grafton, Newington Green, St Luke's, Prior Weston, St Judes and St Paul's, Ashmount and Pakeman have undertaken activities related to Science (Physics, Biology, Chemistry), Technology, Engineering and Maths. They have become familiar with science-related careers linked to electrical and civil engineering, forensic science, space mathematics, lepidoptery and a computer science. Each school met with Megan to decide the theme for their STEM club. Prior Weston chose to link the activities to their community garden. 

Here is what some Year 4 pupils at Grafton had to say about working with conductive dough:

'I loved working out that you could make the light bulb flash by tapping the wire up and down. Edison showed me how to do that.'

'I liked lighting it up - if it didn't light up, you knew that you were doing it the wrong way, or that maybe the bulb had stopped working, but you had to work it out.'

'I like that it was creative, that you could make different ones (models).'

'I liked seeing different people from other year groups. I worked with my friend this time but I think next time I might work with someone else.'