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The day is comprised of three STEM workshops and a careers session allowing Year 9 pupils to get to know the Central Teaching Laboratories and to experience STEM.
Year 9 STEM Taster Days 2024 will take place on January 8th and 9th.
Pupils attend one of the two available dates. The cost to schools is £80 for a minibus of pupils.
Miss, this is like the best experiment I have ever done
- Pupil, on Year 9 STEM Taster Days
Genuinely, some have tapped into skills they would want to do in the future post KS4 and perhaps KS5.
- Teacher, on pupils at Year 9 STEM Taster Days
Timetable
09:00-09:30 |
Arrival |
09:30-09:45 |
Welcome and introduction |
09:45-11:00 |
Practical session 1 |
11:00-11:15 |
Break |
11:15-12:30 |
Practical session 2 |
12:30-13:10 |
Lunch break |
13:10-14:25 |
Practical session 3 |
14:25-14:50 |
Careers & feedback session |
Practical sessions
See below for a list of practical sessions that have featured at Taster Days in the past, and to find out whether they’ll be running at this year’s events. Schools are asked to select five preferred sessions – we aim for at least two of these to be included in pupils’ three allocated sessions.
Session Name | Subject area | Confirmed for 2024 |
---|---|---|
Skittles Spectroscopy | Chemistry | |
Colloid Chemistry – Making Hand Cream |
Chemistry | |
Artificial Intelligence: How Can Machines Learn? |
Computer Science | |
Find the Bug, Foil the Spy |
Electrical Engineering & Electronics | |
Telling the Time with Trees |
Geography & Planning | |
Life Between the Tides |
Ocean Studies | |
The Dangerous Dragon Quiz |
Maths | |
Disaster in Mathemagicland |
Maths | |
Planetarium |
Physics | |
Light up the World |
Physics |
Register
Year 9 STEM Taster Days 2024 will take place on the 8th and 9th of January. Pupils attend one of the two available dates.
Teachers: click below to register your school:
Register for a Year 9 STEM Taster Day
Questions?
Contact Chris Marchant: marchant@liverpool.ac.uk
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