Dear All

The next round of the highly successful online outreach events I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here and I’m a Engineer, Get Me Out of Here are happening 10th -21st March and they’re after research scientists and engineers to take part.

It’s a highly rewarding and enjoyable outreach event that involves inspiring and engaging school students, without having to leave your desk as it’s all happening online.

It consists of you joining 4 other scientists in a “zone” on a website and taking questions from secondary school students via intense real time chats and thought provoking questions that come at a steadier pace.

If you want to know more about what it’s like taking part feel free to ask me as I did it myself in 2010. Alternatively, you can check out what Kristin Harder who won the Particle Physics Zone, or Sarah Tesh who won the Extreme Clean Zone last year have to say, or have a look at Gary Boorman who won the Detection Zone last June.

There are two themed science zones and one engineer zone running in March inspired by STFC-related science, that a lot of you and your colleagues would fit into if interested in taking part:

Nuclear: From helping to unravel the complexities of nuclear physics to using nucleons as part of your experimental toolkit: does the nucleus play a leading role in your research?

Extreme Size: From using the smallest particles of light or matter to peer into the molecular or even sub-atomic world, or studying the minute features of nanotechnology, to studying the largest structures or gargantuan events in our universe: are you looking at the extreme end of the spatial scale?

Space: are you designing, building or testing the latest technology to help us explore the wonders of Space? Will your instrumentation be part of the next space research mission?

To sign up just fill in the form at imascientist.org.uk/scientist-apply or imanengineer.org.uk/engineer-apply by *Friday 31st January*, or forward on to anyone who you think will be interested.

There’s lots more info at imascientist.org.uk/scientists/stfc and imanengineer.org.uk/information-for-stfc-engineers or from project manager Rosie Schultz (cc’d here).