After a visit to the UKATC today (commonly known as the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh) I thought that these might be of interest:
How can we see and take pictures of space? Have a look here to find out and see about careers in this field.
Want to see some of those cool pictures from space? Check out NASA's Images of the Day Gallery.
More on our visit soon....
C. Blair
Please take a look at the exciting things we will be doing over the next few months by looking at the STEM Club page. Follow this link to find the page.
See Mr Blair if you're interested in any of the competitions.
C. Blair
Maths in the Pipeline was an interesting experience.
We left school with Mr Barclay at 7.30am and travelled to Heriot Watt University where we arrived an hour later. We were each allocated to a different team with fourth year pupils from other Lothian schools. In our teams we worked on maths problems that we would face if we were involved in the oil industry. There were professionals from the oil industry present who described the work they do and how they use maths every day in their work. It was very fascinating to learn about the oil industry and the methods they use to extract oil. We all enjoyed the experience, learned how important maths is in the oil industry and had some fun too. Carla had the bonus of receiving a medal for being part of the winning team....
read more...As part of our whole school challenge pupils who came to the Faculty took part in a variety of activities to try and win points for their Houses.
These activities included the Maths Training Challenge (on Nintendo DS's), a selection of competitive Cool Maths Games, strategic puzzles which bizarrely included some dancing(!) and Guitar Hero. The pupils, as usual, were superb and entered into the spirit of it completely. Well done!
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To tie in with the Alan Turing Centenary Birthday celebrations, Heriot-Watt University is offering an exciting short story competition for students aged 15-19 years and studying Mathematics and Computing.
Click here for an information sheet and rules document.
Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was an outstanding British mathematician whose pioneering work underpins much of contemporary computer science and artificial intelligence.
The Heriot-Watt University "Turing's World" Short Story Competition invites students to write a short stort influenced by Turing's work. Stories should be a maximum of 2500 words, written in English and...
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