November 2008 | East Midland STEM Fluency Lab
+ follow up Review Lab
for Ignite! and Creative Partnerships as part of the Ignition* programme
Focused on teachers and artists and science communicators who work in schools, this first East Midlands STEM Fluency Lab was five days of intensive learning and exchanges of ideas.
This was the first of three residential Labs commissioned by Ignite! to take place 2008-2010. The Labs are part of an exciting and comprehensive programme of work called Ignition!. Funded by the East Midlands Development Agency to the tune of £1.9m, the programme aims to stop the decline in young people taking up science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) as courses of higher-level study or as careers.
The STEM Fluency Lab programme provides a hands-on, multi-disciplinary approach to enquiry, invention, and sharing of outstanding practice, designed to enable teachers to transform their capacities for creativity across their subject areas and, in turn, inspire their colleagues and the next generation.
The next Lab in the programme took place in November 2009.
“It was a personal journey. We changed as individuals. I don’t think we appreciated the degree to which we would step outside our own comfort zone and by doing that, learn things. It’s changed my whole approach… This was an opportunity to have four days of being creative without worrying what it was going to give us. By doing it that way we discovered so much that we could use. It was like coming at it from the other side”. Maths teacher
Lab Director
Steve Mesure
Participants
Chrys Allen - artist
Savneesh Bains - teacher
Tracey Barton - teacher
Cathy Bereznicki - Director, PAL Labs in Learning
Harsha Chauhan - teacher
Helen Curry - teacher
Lyn Dunkley - teacher
Asif Esat - teacher
Leigh Fish - scientist
Heidi Gale - teacher
Rick Hall - Director of Programmes, Ignite!
Marion Hamshere - teacher
Alice King - teacher
Andrea Limb - teacher
Garry Monger - teacher
Kim Moor - teacher
Fiona Ord-Shrimpton - Programme Director, Ignition*
Kirsty Price - teacher
Steffie Richards - artist
Dy Shepherd - teacher
Eugene Skeef - musician
Samantha Tang - Public Awareness Scientist, School of Chemistry, Nottingham
Steven Taylor - teacher
Rich Topley - teacher
Sarah Walley - Projects Manager, Ignition*
Lisa Williams - teacher
Kate Willis - movement artist
Visitors
Cathy Brown - STEMnet
Jennifer Delaney - STEM Partnership Forum
Alison Harrold - STEM Partnership Forum
Sarah Hill - Space Academy Project Manager, National Space Centre
Sue Knight - STEM Partnership Forum
Natalie Martin - STEM Partnership Forum
Charlie Mydlarz - Acoustics, Audio and Video Research, Salford University
Funded by
Ignition!
Creative Partnerships
East Midlands Development Agency
