IET Sussex Network STEM Activities
Things are always quiet on the STEM front during the Autumn term. I guess the children are finding their feet in their new year group and before they know it they are preparing for the Christmas activities. The schedule of events doesn't really seem to start picking up until the spring, once potential bad weather has passed. The Sussex Network are fairly active in their support of STEM events. Over the past few years we've attended about a dozen events each year, consisting of either STEM fairs, often referred to as 'Big Bang' or 'STEMFest', or workshops in schools. The Big Bang events attract groups of students from a variety of schools, spread throughout the day and are either local events ('Big Ban @ Somewhere' and 'STEMFest Elsewhere') or Big Bang South East, run over two days and attracting…