There’s not long left now for scientists to sign up for the next I’m a Scientist events in June. Please pass this email onto scientists who might be interested, or squeeze information into any newsletters you may have planned in the next week.

How? Scientists apply here: imascientist.org.uk/scientist-apply
When? Apply by Tuesday 8th May
Who? Anyone! We’re also particularly looking for scientists for themed zones: Animal Behaviour, Earth, Genes, Laser, Materials, Nanotechnology & Organs.

What?
I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here! is an online event where students get to meet and interact with real scientists. It’s an X Factor-style competition between the scientists, where students are the judges. Scientists answer questions from the students on anything and everything and have live online Facebook-style chats with the students, developing communication skills. The students vote for their favourite scientist, who wins £500 to spend on science communication.

I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here! – June 2012

We are running the main event twice this summer. The first will run from June 11th to June 22nd, the second from June 25th to July 6th, to give more schools a chance to take part. There will be general zones with a broad mix of scientists and themed zones from Animal Behaviour to Nanotechnology , the full list is here: imascientist.org.uk/2012/04/apply-now-to-take-part-in-june-2012-events.

Apply to take part in the June event by Tuesday 8th May here

- imascientist.org.uk/scientist-apply

I’m a Scientist, In The Zone! – any week from NOW until July 6th

I’m a Scientist, In the Zone! is designed to compliment the Wellcome Trust’s In the Zone science investigation kits, inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We’re looking for scientists studying the mind and body in motion, from the nutritional needs of marathon runners, to the bioengineering of knee replacements and the psychology of teamwork. We are running 7-11 Primary and 11-19 Secondary school Zones from April 23rd to July 6th. Scientists can sign up now and select their available weeks. Students can ask scientists questions, read scientists’ answers and vote through to the end of the event.

Apply to take part in I’m a Scientist, In the Zone! event here

- inthezone.imascientist.org.uk/for-scientists

If you’ve got any questions give me a ring on 01225 326892 or drop me an email at rosie@gallomanor.com.

Rosie and the I’m a Scientist team

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If you would like to volunteer in such events please fill out the form at:

https://db.stemnet.org.uk/register/ambassador

STEMnet offer free training sessions and CRB checks and events which are emailed out monthly.

To register your interest in further outreach opportunities please email maggie@ukseds.org

We hope to be getting as many UKSEDs members involved in outreach as possible in the near future.

The deadline for abstract submission is Friday 5 May 2012.

Full details are given can be found on the BIS website

For those of you who don’t know, I was going to write a description of Farnborough here, however as I’ve never been and I’m lazy – I copy and pasted Wikipedia instead (well who doesn’t!)

The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace industry which is held in even-numbered years in mid-July at Farnborough Airfield in Hampshire, England. With 1,300 exhibitors and regular visitors over the 100k mark – there really isn’t a much bigger show you could be involved in!

The programme for the futures day (Friday) will look something like this:

10:00 – 10:15 Opening Ceremony in the Innovation Zone with Jem Stansfiled (Bang Goes the Theory)

10:30 – 12:30 A series of Pre-bookable workshops and presentations in the Space Zone

10:0 – 17:00 Outdoor and Indoor Exhibits open

12:30 and 13:30 Tri-nation Rocketry Lunch gidplay

12:30 – 17:00 Air Display

15:00 – 15:30 Rocketry presentations

16:30 – Close

Volunteers will get time to explore and lunch provided as well the as free tickets to the show (you’ll have to provide your own accommodation if you want to stay for the weekend).  If you’re interested please email ‘Exec@ukseds.org‘ to register and get involved!

We also have a Facebook event - Get on it to receive regular updates and more info

Talks so far this morning

Jeremy Curtis from the UK Space Agency

Simon Feast and Jeremy Nickless from Reaction Engines Ltd

Keith Muirhead from HE Space

Carol Norburg from Umia University

Dr David Ashford from Bristol Space Planes.

We are now at lunch!

If you can’t make it then watch this space for updates during the day or follow us on our Facebook Page or Twitter #uksedsconference2012.

KENT 2012 31 March/1 April

Don’t forget to register as we have limited spaces and need to know numbers for catering.

You can now view the provisional programme and list of speakers.

Plus see our list of Exhibitors.

And don’t forget you can nominate yourself for next year’s Committee.

We look forward to seeing you there.

With just over a month to go until the UKSEDS National Annual Conference we can start taking registrations for this fabulous event.

To re-cap -

• Kent University – 31st March/ 1st April
• Two days of talks on everything from astrobiology, space planes, colonisation, rockets and our most successful projects of the year so far.
• Exhibitions from industry leaders including; HE Space, Vega, AspireSpace and many more!
• UKSEDS AGM – election of next years committee.
• Social fun!

Interested? Sign up on the registration page and join our Facebook event for you tickets and more info. Also keep upto date by following the Ecliptic and the conference home page

Conference information (more coming soon!):

Main

Registration

Venue

Programme

Speakers

Exhibition

Sponsors

Social

AGM

More information will be following shortly, we’ll let you know as soon as registration opens.

18:00 – The MBed award for the most engious circiut goes to Laurence Stant for liking his device to his phone’s Blue Tooth! Impressive.

16:45 -  Dan Kent from Vega has arrived to deliever his workshop on Satalite operations. People on this workshop will be trying to locate the Death Star from thier earth orbit satalite.

15:45 – MBed workshop well under way now with lots of electronic gizmos making an appearance!

15:40 – Err… big gap here as my laptop broke … again… but we did get the branch summit done. Successful hour of finding out how our enthusiastic branches are getting on and brainstorming lots of projects ideas.

12:10 – Apparently the moon has the biggest impact crater in the solar system on it! it’s 12km deep

12:07 – Dr. Ian Crawford his currently doing his presentation on “The Scientific Case for renewed Robotic
and Human Exploration of the Moon”.  Talking about the evolution of life during the bombardment of the early solar system.

11:51 – Just finished registering everyone – attendance is at 50 but I’ve almost certainly missed some people

11:00 – High altitude ballooning is looking good with a helium balloon floating in the workshop and teams of people hectically drawing plans for asteroid excavation on to big sheets of paper. Even My laptop, which had died has decided to come back to life! Things are looking good at the moment, if we could just find a kettle!

Everyone is here, the kinks have ironed out, and the first workshops are in progress! The UKSEDS November workshop is underway!

One of the teams from the Systems Engineering workshop getting down to designing an asteroid sample return mission.