A number of new Businesses have agreed to take part and will be joining our existing sponsors, STEM Ambassadors and schools from the Burgess Hill area during our launch event on Friday 25th March.
More information will be posted in the coming weeks, if you have any questions in the meantime please don’t hesitate to contact us
STEM is back!
We are currently planning for the long awaited return of Mid Sussex Science Week in June 2022.
More primary schools are interested in taking part this year, so we’re hoping that it will be bigger and better than ever!
Keep watching the website for further updates and keep a look out in your inboxes for an email from the Chair of Mid Sussex Science, you don’t want to miss out on this great opportunity
Encouraging the young minds of today…for the future of tomorrow!
Check out our sponsors to find out a little more about them.
This is a wonderful new initiative that Mid Sussex Science is supporting and working with for next year’s 2020 Mid Sussex Science Week.
We hope you are aware of the fantastic work of the Sussex Miniature Locomotive Society do in providing rides on the miniature railway for families to enjoy each year at Beech Hurst Gardens. The Trustees of a new Charitable Incorporated Organisation, The Branch Line, have been working on raising funds for a new Learning Centre within the grounds of Beech Hurst that will provide a facility for local families to visit and learn about engineering and sciences associated with the railways and specifically the dying hands-on knowledge of steam engine systems.
The new Beech Hurst Science and Engineering Learning Centre aims to enhance the learning and public understanding of basic science and engineering, and raise awareness of locally available career paths in STEM. it will do this by building on the fascination expressed by the public, but especially by children, of miniature steam locomotives.
The MSSW team are passionate about preserving and inspiring the next generation of engineers and scientists and are looking to support this initiative in any way we can. We want to help ensure this facility is provided so our children can benefit from the knowledge on offer and maximise their opportunities in life.
It is important to preserve the history of our engineering and skills and as Haywards Heath plans celebrations of this history of the town this is something that could link very nicely with the school curriculum bringing together Science, Mathematics, History and English.
Furthermore, an opportunity for the children to get a hands-on approach of engineering facilities with access to experienced engineers and academics in the field is something that the children and teachers each year can look forward to.
Please help support this exciting venture so children can make use of this facility.
STEM Ambassadors from BSE3D visited schools in Crawley to encourage children to engage with engineering. Not only to give them ideas about engineering roles but also working on some fun experiments and setting them an interesting challenge.
The challenge, not merely to ‘build a bridge’. They must use their communication and ingenious inventor skills to design and then build it with the least amount of materials from a limited list of items and use parameters set for the bridge specifications.
The objective – to support a bottle of water on the central span for as long as possible.
Each student received certificates for participating in the challenge. Winners were chosen, not only for achieving the challenge objection but for their concentration and attention to detail of their bridges.
Well done to everyone who took part in the challenge and congratulations to our Engineering Winners!
We were delighted to see nine schools represented, producing an array of inventive projects to an extremely high standard showing presentation, design skills and originality.
They received their trophy from Sir Nicholas Soames MP and Mr Philip Todd, STEM Ambassador.
Schools were given an added challenge, to design and build a bridge that would support the weight of a bottle of water using the least amount of materials. The ultimate test, to ensure the bottle stays upright and in place for 5 seconds without the structure collapsing while in the judging test area.
Overall results
Best Project – 1st place Lindfield Primary Academy, 2nd place Blackthorns Primary Academy, 3rd place Bolnore Village Primary School
Design Challenge – Harlands Primary School
Students Choice – St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
Well done to all schools who took part and look forward to seeing more of you in 2019.
