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Nurturing the next generation of creative techies with Arti-Techs Club
Tuesday 23rd July 2024
Science Oxford’s Arti-techs Club, run by Technology Projects Officer Sarah Townson, is a place where young people aged 11 to 14 years old can come to explore their creativity through technology. It’s also a space where they can connect and make friends.
Celebrating students in STEM at Young Scientists of the Year 2023 awards
Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Each year, we bring together outstanding Year 13 students, their parents and teachers at a prestigious evening event to recognise and celebrate achievements of the students nominated for our Young Scientists of the Year awards.
Oxford STEM Fest to shine light on STEM Careers this October
Friday 22nd September 2023
Young people, Year 9s and above, this one is for you! Are you unsure what GCSE options to choose? Or, have you already chosen your subjects but don’t know what to do next? Are you curious and excited by the idea of solving real-world challenges, but haven’t considered a STEM career? Or, have you decided […]
Celebrating Science Oxford’s Young Scientists of the Year 2022
Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Committed, determined, hard-working, resilient, talented, enthusiastic, passionate, curious, supportive, encouraging. These are just some of the words teachers used to describe Year 13 students nominated for the 2022 Young Scientists of the Year awards. With attributes like these in our young people, the future of STEM looks bright!
What do people who work in STEM actually do?
Tuesday 15th November 2022
Thanks to Science Oxford, a group of year 10s from local Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire secondary schools who participated in the October half-term STEM Insight Week discovered what working in STEM really entails.
Applications now open for our STEM Insight Week
Tuesday 20th September 2022
Applications are now open for our next STEM Insight Week, which takes place at half-term from 24–28 October. We have an exciting week planned to help Year 10 students gain insight into STEM working life, and to inspire their path into STEM careers.
Catapulting careers in STEM – meet our placement student
Wednesday 11th May 2022
If you’re considering a career in STEM, there’s a world of opportunity waiting! Earlier this year we were delighted to welcome a PhD student from Sheffield University, Ruth Thomas, who joined us for her Professional Internship placement. Ruth explored her interests in science outreach and communication with our thriving education and engagement programmes at the […]
A not completely alive Live Lab session
Tuesday 10th May 2022
If you visit the Science Oxford Centre for a Family Day this summer, you just might see something unusual. Our pop up ‘Live Lab’ is an interactive space where families get to meet a scientist, student or researcher – or one of our expert team.
Climate of change – students look to the future for STEM Insight Week
Thursday 4th November 2021
During an unseasonably warm October and the build up to COP26 – the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow – we were excited to welcome an enthusiastic group of young people to our Climate Change themed STEM Insight Week. Secondary school students from the region took part in free talks and tours over half term, showcasing companies at the […]
Following the science – our new STEM Careers Programme launches this autumn
Thursday 23rd September 2021
Issues important to young people are constantly in the news, from ‘following the science’ during the pandemic to the New Space Race, climate change and the global energy crisis. That’s why our STEM Careers Programme strives to fire up secondary school students’ enthusiasm with topical themes and activities that inspire and engage. Our regular programmes return for this academic year with a mix of virtual […]
Big data, little data: insight into STEM Careers
Wednesday 3rd March 2021
As we celebrate National Careers Week, a UK initiative to empower and inform students about the world of work, we highlight Science Oxford’s STEM Careers Programme — designed to inspire young people considering a career in science, technology, engineering and maths. Our virtual STEM Insight Week took place during February half-term, where we introduced 22 […]
Celebrating the region’s best school scientists
Wednesday 18th November 2020
Every year Science Oxford celebrates outstanding Year 13 science students across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire at our Young Scientists of the Year Award. Usually, the event is held amongst the dinosaurs at the Oxford University Natural History Museum and the cutting edge technology at the Bucks New University, but this time round the celebrations took place […]
Anneliese Dodds MP visits the Science Oxford Centre
Monday 28th September 2020
Anneliese Dodds MP took time out to visit our Science Oxford Centre recently with her daughter for one of our Family Open Days. During the week, the Centre is open for school visits but every other Saturday we welcome families to our Family Open Days, where they can try the hands-on exhibits in the Exploration Zone […]
OxSource supporting Science Oxford’s STEM Careers Programme
Monday 27th July 2020
We are pleased to say that local recruitment company OxSource is supporting our STEM Careers programme this year. OxSource a young, dynamic Oxford-based technology recruitment agency. Their STEM graduate programme started in January before the effects of Covid-19 were known but it is an added incentive for John Chapman and his team to assist this […]
STEM Club Workshops
Wednesday 22nd July 2020
As part of a national programme supported by the Gatsby Foundation, Science Oxford is delighted to be working with Oxfordshire Science Learning Partnership to deliver free workshops for science teachers to grow STEM Club provision in state-maintained secondary schools. The workshops will offer guidance and support for teachers to start new, or improve existing, STEM […]
Explore our world with British Science Week
Friday 6th March 2020
British Science Week is officially here. The Science Oxford team is excited to bring hands-on science-inspired fun to over 5000 school children, families and adults across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire over the next three weeks! The national celebration runs 6–15 March 2020 and champions science, technology, engineering and maths with the theme of ‘Our Diverse Planet.’ […]
Science Oxford’s STEM Insight Week: A first byte into big data
Monday 2nd March 2020
In February, the Science Oxford team ran a STEM Insight Week on Computing and Coding for fifteen Year 10 students from schools across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The idea of our Insight Week is to give young people the opportunity to hear about the science relating to particular businesses and the career opportunities available. One of […]
Science Oxford Employer Awards 2019 Announced
Friday 17th January 2020
Would your business or organisation be able to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, doctors, programmers, technicians or researchers? We work with some amazing businesses and we are pleased to recognise their contribution to our STEM World of Work Programme. Science Oxford’s STEM Careers Programme offers a range of engaging activities for secondary school students […]
STEM INSIGHT WEEK NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS
Thursday 16th January 2020
We are excited to announce that our STEM Insight Week 17th- 21st February is now open for applications from secondary schools in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. This week’s programme is aimed at providing Yr10 students with an in-depth experience of the types of careers available in coding and computing by visiting various organisations and companies in the […]
Year in review 2019: One giant leap for Science Oxford…
Friday 13th December 2019
In a year which saw the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo moon landing celebrated globally, Science Oxford took a giant leap of its own and launched the brand-new Science Oxford Centre in Headington. From hands-on schools exploration and family visits, to woodland walks and expert talks, we’ve welcomed over 2700 pupils from 37 schools […]
Celebrating the best of Bucks
Thursday 12th December 2019
Can you imagine what your future may hold? That was the daunting question posed to the 49 secondary school students who we welcomed to our Buckinghamshire Young Scientists of the Year celebration evening in November. Held at the prestigious Bucks New University, the students were shown a potential vision of that future. Their minds were […]
It’s elemental, my dear student
Thursday 12th December 2019
Science Oxford’s Rowena Fletcher-Wood went along to a celebration of all things chemistry at Wychwood School in Oxford last month, as students gathered for a competition to mark the International Year of the Periodic Table. Choose your favourite element and talk about it for two minutes. Go. Sounds like a tricky feat? Not only do […]
From acorn to oak – celebrate National Tree Week
Wednesday 27th November 2019
Surrounding the Science Oxford Centre at Stansfeld Park, we have 15 acres of beautiful woodland, making it the largest within the ring road. National Tree Week (23rdNovember – 1stDecember) signals a full-on week of planting at Stansfeld, a vital part of our woodland rejuvenation project. National Tree Week comes during the ideal tree planting season […]
Oxfordshire Young Scientists of the Year 2019
Wednesday 23rd October 2019
To be a Young Scientist of the Year, you need attributes such as enthusiasm, creativity and a willingness to take on-board new ideas, all whilst being determined and focussed. Last week, Science Oxford was delighted to welcome seventy-three Oxfordshire secondary students with such attributes to the perfectly neo-gothic University of Oxford Museum of Natural History […]
FOREST SCHOOL REOPENS AT STANSFELD PARK
Friday 18th October 2019
Thanks to the generosity of three Oxford councillors, Science Oxford has been able to reopen a Forest School space in the woodland at its new Stansfeld Park home in Headington. Councillors Glynis Phillips, Roz Smith and Chewe Munkonge have all donated funds to support the project to develop a special area of the woodland that […]
Celebration evening showcases student success
Thursday 10th October 2019
Batteries, chocolate eclairs and broad smiles were the order of the evening, as Science Oxford welcomed twelve students, their families and placement providers to the Work Experience Celebration event on Thursday 03 October. The celebration evening is our opportunity to recognise the hard work and dedication of those students who took part in their summer […]
New course will help teachers bring creativity and skills to science lessons
Tuesday 2nd July 2019
If you’re a primary school teacher looking to develop creative and challenging science lessons which encourage children to use critical thinking skills, look no further. We’ve just launched the latest round of training days for our Thinking, Doing, Talking Science (TDTS) CPD programme which equips teachers with strategies and activity ideas that can translate immediately […]
Students sample Biomedical STEM careers in Oxfordshire
Monday 10th June 2019
Our World of Work programme aims to inspire and encourage young people to consider a career in STEM through giving them real life work experiences. In May, we took fifteen Year 10 students from ten different secondary schools in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire to visit a range of biomedical research businesses and organisations, as part of […]
Science Poetry Competition for Oxfordshire’s young wordsmiths
Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Are you 16 or under and can you write a terrific science-inspired poem? If so, you’ve got until 30th April to enter the IF Oxford 2019 Poetry of Science Competition for a chance to win some fantastic prizes. The winning poems plus runners-up will be performed at IF Oxford, the city’s science and ideas festival […]
STEM Experience Week February 2019
Thursday 14th February 2019
Sixteen Y10 students from secondary schools across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire will be visiting local high-tech businesses next week to explore career opportunities in technology and engineering. The STEM Experience Week provides the students with the chance to experience working life in a diverse range of STEM businesses – from engineering firms and autonomous vehicle developers […]
A year in review The Oxford Trust 2017/18
Wednesday 6th February 2019
We have just published The Oxford Trust Annual Review 2017/18 and are super-proud to share with you all the activities we’ve been doing through our education and engagement programmes this year. Science Oxford is part of a charitable trust called The Oxford Trust and you can find out all about the Trust’s ethos, our latest […]