STEM Education

The growing shortages and demands for skilled workers are becoming a greater problem globally, says YC Wang. He proposes education is the key to engage and encourage students from a young age. Factoring in the onslaught of the ‘baby boomer’ generation leaving the workforce, and demand for newer, faster, better technology increasing more quickly every year, the need for skilled ...

A passion for software development led to career opportunities in Australia and the Philippines and, most recently, the UK for Mary-Anne Legaspi. She tells Caroline Hayes about her career path. Navigating a route towards a satisfying job typically starts with an interest in an area and building from there. Mary-Anne Legaspi says her passion for software development was nurtured while ...

Cambridge ink jet technology company Xaar supported St. Peter’s School Huntingdon through its recent STEM education day, with help from the Smallpeice Trust. “The event gave an opportunity for students to engage with Xaar, with practical tasks reinforcing the benefits of STEM subjects and their importance for future career opportunities,” according to the company. 50 year-10 students were two challenges: ...

One for those with a STEM interest, maybe - Arduino Cloud for Education aims to help teachers and students collaborate on interactive IoT projects.

A pet isn't for Christmas, but maybe a robotic dog pet is. A Petoi Bittle robotic dog, to be precise, for those wanting to learn about robotics.

Prestwick Spaceport, along with affiliated aerospace businesses, is launching a campaign to educate young people across Scotland about careers in the UK’s space sector. The spaceport, which is located near Glasgow and is planning to start satellite launches in 2023, is being developed alongside Scotland’s largest aerospace cluster. It has secured multi-million-pound funding through an Ayrshire Growth Deal. The educational ...

Everyone agrees that one of the issues facing the UK electronics industry is attracting and retaining a diverse workforce to makeup the next generation of electronics engineers. Imagination Technologies has published a white paper identifying the key challenges facing the UK. Top of the list is a “skills shortage in the technical and professional skills needed to power the knowledge ...

Arduino and Seeed have collaborated to produce the Arduino Sensor Kit. Based on the Arduino UNO, the STEM kit is aimed at those getting started with electronics and sensors easier. It contains a Base Shield and ten Grove modules that can be connected either through the digital, analog or I2C connectors on the shield (there are accompanying lessons for the ...

CodeBug Connect, is the IoT-capable next-generation of the original CodeBug educational board launched in 2015 – which won the Electronics Weekly Elektra Award that year for most innovative consumer product. Retaining the original cartoon animal shape and small (~40 x 50mm) dimensions, the Connect version gains Wi-Fi and enough computing power to make it a wearable server and to host its own ...

Details have been announced of version 2 of the BBC micro:bit educational computer. micro:bit v2 is built around a Nordic Semi nRF52833, which will run application code, Bluetooth stack and handle USB. The core in this chip is a 64MHz Arm Cortex-M4 with a floating point unit – described as “the CPU power to run AI and Machine Learning workloads”, by ...