Faculty of Science Outreach and Public Engagement

Schools within the Faculty of Science carry out a range of outreach activities with local schools and the community.

Faculty of Science Outreach

The faculty outreach offer is currently paused. Previously we have run the following:

Work experience programme for Y10 students in local schools
On campus science research and career insight visits
Levelling Up STEM: A level tutoring and mentoring in physics and chemistry.
In school workshops and activties including:
- STEM Superstore Workshop: learners put their STEM skills into practice to run the most successful superstore. A session full of mini STEM challenges and linking to STEM careers and STEM in everyday life. (2hr duration, Up to 30 students, delivered up to 2 times in a day. Y7-9).
- You Can Too Workshop: A careers workshop focused on careers in research science and career pathways into differentSTEM jobs using the Global STEM Candoo Card Game. (1hr duration, Up to 30 students, delivered up to 5 times in a day. Y9-11).
- STEM Research Areas Aspirations Stand: Students take on the robot sampler activity to correctly match research areas with different research interests using a Makeblock Ultimate robot. This short interactive activity is perfect for STEM and careers fairs and facilitates conversations around different science disciplines, local research and careers and higher education in STEM fields. Suitable for all ages.

For more information, please contact us at scienceoutreach@nottingham.ac.uk.

A Level Tutoring and Mentoring

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Get involved - staff and students

School outreach

Staff and students from across the faculty schools support activities run by the central Schools and Colleges Outreach Team.

Activities include:

Primary – Learning Leaders programme
Primary – Discovery Days
Secondary - Year 10 taster events with Ambition Nottingham
Taster lectures Year 12 summer schools
Residential summer schools

In addition, the faculty and academic schools run subject specfic outreach activities and can accommodate some requests for work experience, talks and visits.

Public engagement

You may meet our staff and students as part of a number of public events and activities often run with the Institute of Policy and Engagement.

These include:

Festival of Science and Curiosity
Science in the Park
Pint of Science talks
On radio and TV
Science public lecture series

If you are looking for resources to support your science teaching or revision please head to the resource catalogue which includes links to resources created by the university and other organisations.

In addition to these programmes and events find out more about outreach from academic schools within the faculty of science.