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This pack contains everything you need to get started as an Ambassador.

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This guide demonstrates how to log a STEM ambassador activity you have taken part in.

Any activities you express interest in on the STEM Ambassador website will automatically get logged on your profile for you. You can use this guide to log activities you take part in through work, your studies, your professional institutions, or that you organise yourself.

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Finding activities on the STEM Ambassador Website 

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Finding activities on the STEM Ambassador Website 

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Use this guide to help you find activities on the STEM ambassador website.

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Engagement using a Science Capital Approach

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Engagement using a Science Capital Approach

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This document outlines 12 reflection points to think about when you are delivering an activity to ensure you are using science capital informed approaches.

You can find out more about science capital here: https://learning.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/what-is-science-capital/

You can find out more about some of the reflection points here: https://learning.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/science-engagement-reflection-tool/

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This guidance, put together by WISE, highlights 'Dos' and 'Don'ts' to consider when giving a presentation or talking about science to young people, especially girls.

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For the first time ever, there are more than 1 million women working in core STEM roles across the UK. WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) invite you to join them as they celebrate this significant milestone and inspire more women to become #1ofTheMillion.

Upload your photo to their interactive photo collage and help celebrate the brilliant contributions women like you are making through STEM to create real and lasting change in the UK today.

If you upload your photo, don't forget to tell us you've taken part by logging it on your STEM Ambassador Profile.

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Help students stay connected with STEM, their teachers, and classmates with I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here.

Chat with students and teachers using a simple messaging platform

Answer their questions about working in engineering

Compete for votes to win £500 for your engagement projects

You could be an engineer in industry, academia or the public sector, a technician, an apprentice, in roles like comms or management… Take part to show students the wide range of engineering careers out there.

The next activity, Space Zone, takes place in the autumn school term, between 2 to 28 November.

Don't forget to log the activity on your profile if you take part!

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Funded by Wellcome and UKRI

Connect school students with science outside the classroom, and help them discover STEM careers in I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here.

Chat with students in text-only live Chats

Answer their questions about working in science

The activity is flexible and works around your schedule - you choose to take part at times that suit you over a 4-week activity.

It's all online and text-only (no audio or video). All you need is a web browser.

Apply to take part ❯

It only takes 2 minutes to apply. We'll be in touch if we have a space for you on one of our activities.

Who can apply? All professionals working in fields related to STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) are welcome to apply.

You could be working in industry, academia or the public sector

You could be a technician, an apprentice, or in roles like comms or management

Take part to show students the wide range of STEM-related careers out there.

🗨️ What scientists say:

"The questions asked were both fun and challenging, keeping me on my toes at all times and giving me a fresh perspective and enthusiasm for my own research" "Love, love, loving taking part in @imascientist, so much fun, very engaging" Find out more:
Questions?

Email support@imascientist.org.uk

Apply to take part ❯

📺 Watch the video to see what its all about...

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Engineers: Engage school students with your work

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Funded by Wellcome and UKRI Connect school students with science outside the classroom, and help them discover STEM careers in I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here. Chat with students in text-only live Chats Answer their questions about working in science The activity is flexible and works around your schedule - you choose to take part at times that suit you over a 4-week activity.

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Help students stay connected with science, their teachers and classmates in I’m a Scientist.

Chat with students and teachers using a simple messaging platform

Answer their questions about working in science

Compete for votes to win £500 for your engagement projects

You could be a researcher, technician, in industry or the public sector, in roles like comms or management… Take part to show students the wide range of STEM-related careers out there.

The next activities take place in the autumn school term, between 31 August and 18 December. Each activity, called a Zone, lasts 4 weeks.

Don't forget to log the activity on your profile if you take part!

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Connect school students with science outside the classroom, and help them discover STEM careers in I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here.

It's all online and text-only (no audio or video). All you need is a web browser.

Chat with students in text-only live Chats

Answer their questions about you, your work, your salary, or any other topic - from robots to pizza toppings!

Support students to see STEM as 'for them' and break down stereotypes of what a scientist is 'supposed' to be.

The activity is flexible and works around your schedule - you choose to take part at times that suit you over a 4-week activity.
Apply to take part ❯

It only takes 2 minutes to apply. We'll be in touch if we have a space for you on one of our activities.

Who can apply? All professionals working in fields related to STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) are welcome to apply.

You could be working in industry, academia or the public sector

You could be a technician, an apprentice, or in roles like comms or management

Take part to show students the wide range of STEM-related careers out there.

🗨️ What scientists say:

"The questions asked were both fun and challenging, keeping me on my toes at all times and giving me a fresh perspective and enthusiasm for my own research" "Love, love, loving taking part in @imascientist, so much fun, very engaging" Find out more:
Questions?

Email support@imascientist.org.uk

Apply to take part ❯

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➕ Scientists: Engage school students with your work

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Connect school students with science outside the classroom, and help them discover STEM careers in I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here. It's all online and text-only (no audio or video). All you need is a web browser.

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Free Future Learn courses for STEM Ambassadors on the topics of:
- Promoting Diversity
- Planning and Organising Practical Activities
- Communication Skills
- Collecting Feedback

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Inspire a love of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in young people

Designed for STEM Ambassadors in the UK and other volunteers around the world, these four courses will help you to become a better STEM volunteer.

You'll learn from experienced educators, volunteers, and STEM Ambassador Hubs - who'll guide you through the process of planning, resourcing, delivering and reviewing your work.

You'll plan and carry out effective STEM activities, exploring subjects like diversity, communicating with young people, and using feedback to improve learner understanding.

Ultimately, these courses will equip you with the skills and confidence to inspire young people into further study or STEM careers.

By completing all four courses, you'll be able to:

Identify a range of resources to support your practical activities.

Adapt resources for a specific audience and activity, reflecting the diversity and context of the activity.

Work with educators and group leaders to plan and arrange activities.

Produce activity plans to use when delivering practical activities in schools or organisations.

Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication with young people.

Develop your confidence, skills and ability to do practical activities with young people.

Collect immediate feedback for young people about practical STEM Activities, using different tools.

Contribute towards employer and programme evaluation of STEM volunteering activities.

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STEM volunteering with young people - online courses

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Designed for STEM Ambassadors in the UK and other volunteers around the world, these four courses will help you to become a better STEM volunteer. You'll learn from experienced educators, volunteers, and STEM Ambassador Hubs - who'll guide you through the process of planning, resourcing, delivering and reviewing your work.

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This guide has been designed to help you put together a careers talk in 10 slides.

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This activity has been designed to be accessible for all primary school pupils (5-11 years old). It will encourage creative thinking from both yourself and the pupils, and will help to address some misconceptions pupils have about STEM related careers. The aim of this activity is for the pupils to gain a better understanding of different types of jobs that relate to STEM is and to provide the pupils the opportunity to (virtually!) chat to a real person working/ studying in STEM! Email your completed activity to ambassadors@sciencemuseum.ac.uk

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A quick and easy STEM Ambassador activity. Complete the template profile below and send it to ambassadors@sciencemuseum.ac.uk and we will send your profile to a teacher to use in their lessons.

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This document includes different ideas for different STEM challenges you could set for a class or youth group to discuss.

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Resources from the Science Museum Group designed using Science Capital principals.

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Explore how the work of real-life technicians has helped design and build some of the amazing objects in the Science Museum's Medicine, Mathematics and Making the Modern world galleries.

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Over 100 free resources collated and curated for STEM Ambassadors by STEM learning.

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For her research, Veronika looked at how pine cones close when the weather is wet and open when it is dry. Pine cones do this to give their seeds the best chance of flying far away from the tree so that they can grow into new trees far away. In the rain, the seeds will not fly as far and will end up competing with...

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STEM Learning Ltd offers the largest collection of learning resources for teachers and educators of science, technology, engineering, computing and mathematics in the UK.

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44 quick science and engineering demos.

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This is a guide from STEM Learning on how to handle anxiety around delivering presentations.

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This  guide from STEM Learning provides an overview of the current school system at secondary level, across the UK.

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Access high impact CPD, support and inspiration from other teachers and STEM Ambassadors, free resources and more. Need a STEM Learning Account? Create an account

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A guide from STEM learning about what to expect from a Speed Networking Session.

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30 quick science demonstrations.

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A collection of questions you could use during a speed networking event to start the conversation. You could cut them up and put them in an envelope to create a 'dipping' bag of questions.

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Becoming a School Governor is a great way to develop your skills as a STEM Ambassador, and have a direct impact on young people's education.

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Adding a professional institution to your profile

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Adding a professional institution to your profile

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If you are part of a professional institution, you can add this to your STEM Ambassador profile. It helps your professional institution to track the number of hours of engagement their members are taking part in. You can opt out of this information being shared with your professional institution if you wish.

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WISE would like to recruit 300 female role models working within Technology/Computing to register as role models and get involved with Gender Balance in Computing sessions across England from March 2021.

You can get involved by:

Leading a My Skills My Life session.

Supporting a My Skills My Life session as a role model.

Completing a My Skills My Life profile for the online platform/paper resource.

WISE will be running information webinars from October onward and these will provide information about the messaging and how to adapt the session for Primary Schools.

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WISE are excited to be part of a brand-new research project investigating how to engage more girls in computing. We are partnering with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the Behavioural Insights Team, STEM Learning, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, alongside Apps for Good, to work on 'Gender Balance in Computing'.

Research by the University of Roehampton and the Royal Society recently found that only 20% of computing candidates for GCSE and 10% for A level Computer Science were girls. 'Gender Balance in Computing' will develop and roll out multiple projects with the aim of increasing the number of girls choosing to study a computing subjects at GCSE and A Level. These projects will run from 2019-2022 across Key Stages 1-4 - involving over 15,000 students and 550 schools in England.

As part of this, we are thrilled to be trialling our outreach resource ' My Skills My Life' with Primary schools. We will be going into schools in England during 2021 and will be delivering a specific variant of My Skills My Life, focused on computing, to Year 5 students. The consortium has identified some of the possible reasons why a large percentage of girls don't choose computing, and this includes feeling like they don't belong, and that computing is not relevant to them. My Skills My Life challenges these stereotypes by showing girls inspirational women working in industry with who they may have traits in common with.

We would like to recruit 300 female role models working within Technology/Computing to register as role models and get involved with sessions across England in March 2021, within a 12 week period.

You can get involved by:

Project Update

Due to the current situation with COVID-19, the project will commence as soon as Government guidelines allow. In preparation, we would like to recruit as many role models as possible. The training platform is now live, which allows role models to be trained on My Skills My Life. We would also like you to create role model profiles on My Skills My Life. Please ensure you select the 'Computing Role Model' tag. If you have already created a profile, please log in and update your profile by selecting this tag.

We will be running information webinars from October onward and these will provide information about the messaging and how to adapt the session for Primary Schools.

If you'd like to get involved, please register your interest here.

If you would like a school to be involved in the pilot, please direct schools here.

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WISE | What we do | WISE Projects | Gender Balance in Computing

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WISE are excited to be part of a brand-new research project investigating how to engage more girls in computing. We are partnering with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the Behavioural Insights Team, STEM Learning, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, alongside Apps for Good, to work on 'Gender Balance in Computing'.

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My Skills, My Life is an activity that has been developed by WISE with the aim of encouraging more girls to consider a Career in STEM. The activity features a personality quiz, which girls complete, to give them 3 personality types. They then get matched with role models and job roles that share the same types. It’s not about pigeon-holing anyone, but about taking skills the girls have and showing them some of the options in STEM that would allow them to be both happy & successful in a career. My Skills My Life can be taken into the classroom, into community groups and even big national events! The flexibility of the online tool is fantastic, and we even have a paper tool for situations where technology is limited.  It should take about 40 minutes to complete both modules.

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Thank you for registering to run a My Skills My Life session and helping us to reach 200,000 girls.

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To continue the amazing ways in which STEM Ambassadors have been supporting schools and youth and community groups over the past few months, STEM Learning are creating a suite of videos to host on the STEM Learning YouTube channel. These videos will cover a particular STEM topic in a fun and accessible way.

Can you help? We are asking STEM Ambassadors to create a video in one of these three categories and send it to us to upload. ​​​​​

1. Interviewed by a child

2. How it works at home

3. What equipment is this?

We have created a full set of guidance documents with tips for filming, consent forms and inspiration for what the videos could contain, you can download them here.

The videos should be no longer than 5 minutes and we aim to have the first set live for September. So get filming, get creative and think outside of the box with these themes! We will share as many videos as we can.

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Please be aware that resources have been published on the website in the form that they were originally supplied. This means that procedures reflect general practice and standards applicable at the time resources were produced and cannot be assumed to be acceptable today. Website users are fully responsible for ensuring that any activity, including practical work, which they carry out is in accordance with current regulations related to health and safety and that an appropriate risk assessment has been carried out.

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To continue the amazing ways in which STEM Ambassadors have been supporting schools and youth and community groups over the past few months, we are creating a suite of videos to host on the STEM Learning YouTube channel. Can you help?

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At the start of September STEM Learning will be issuing the next set of STEM Certificates covering activities from 1 April to 31 July 2020.

Please make sure you have logged your volunteering hours by 31 August to ensure they are counted for your next STEM Certificate. This includes any online volunteering you have undertaken as a STEM Ambassador.