Edinburgh Academy STEMs

News & views from STEM @edinburghacad

[MARSBalloon (Future Martians) @marsballoonUK]

Now for Engineer’s choice, where our #MarsBalloon team have picked a primary and a secondary experiment they liked best. The team think there are definitely some budding space engineers in these groups… let’s find out who they have chosen!

[MARSBalloon (Future Martians) @marsballoonUK]

For secondary, it’s @edinburghacad and their COVID test experiment! Our engineers thought that health and illness will be a really important issue for Future Martians and this experiment was really thinking outside the box. Good work team Edinburgh Academy! 👏🏻

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

@edinburghacad 3rds Mars Balloon Experiments ready for launch! Exploring the effects of Martian-like conditions on seed germination, material properties of pencil erasers, pH testing of upper atmosphere, COVID Lateral Flow test accuracy and lithium ion batteries!@STEMLearningUK

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Fantastic outdoor education opportunities, outward bounding with @edinburghacad 3rds this week! Staff and pupils ‘reconnecting’ with the city’s landmarks and the natural world! #geology #edinburghcity

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Gleeful Geits in the Garden! Delighted to be back @edinburghacad this week! Outdoor learning about oviparous animals - translocating our frog population to the new pond and constructing their own nests! #spring #Science #STEMeducation

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Excellent effort from all 3rds girls who entered @UniStrathclyde Young WEIR-WISE engineering programme: Congratulations go to Amy Lane for her successful application!👏⚙️

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

It’s British Science Week and @edinburghacad 2nds have been writing their materials research articles in Chemistry - exploring the promised wonders of Graphene! Well done Elza - a career in science writing beckons! 🧪📰 @ScienceWeekUK

[Ewan Angus @ewan_angus]

Online lessons @edinburghacad move outside for some Chemistry fun making a Co2 volcanic eruption in the snow with a bottle of coke and some sweets. Our furry lab assistant legged it just before the main event!

[Strathclyde Engineering @StrathEng]

Applications are now OPEN for our Young Weir Wise outreach programme, which is running virtually in April 2021, and open to all S2 girls in Scotland. An amazing opportunity to find out more about Engineering study and careers. Apply online now https://t.co/OB5hhAsC2J

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Final festive @edinburghacad STEM club session saw some fantastically inventive biomimic-ed designs. From pufferfish sports shoes to amphibious amputee prosthetics. The winning pitch used flowers’ nocturnal behaviour as inspiration for a light sensitive bicycle torch. #biomimicry

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Macroscopic modelling of the microscopic world! @edinburghacad Geits have been developing their visuospatial skills in science this week; translating 2D images of living cells into 3D models! #Microscopy #3dmodeling #Science

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Impressive efforts from the @edinburghacad Geits this week, earning their light microscopy licences! Paving the way for some future experimental biologists! #microscopy

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Well done @edinburghacad 3rds for your efforts throughout the STEM Day. Finding solutions to global problems by intercepting plastic pathways to the sea. Creativity ranged from ingenious new drainage systems to vending recycling robots! #TeacherStrong @ScotGov # plasticpollution

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Data collection and plastics survey complete at Cramond Beach this lunchtime, thanks to @edinburghacad 3rds for their STEM Day out. Finding sustainable solutions to problematic plastics will be the afternoon task - may the best team win! #MySayOnSingleUse @GreenerScotland

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Well done to @edinburghacad 2nds STEM clubbers for bringing together their final technical pitches inspired by nature! The brief was ‘biomimicry’, the products we’re imaginative! From chameleon camouflage and platypus swimming gloves, to snail slime sneakers! @BiomimicryInst

[ES Sciences Team @EdScotSciences]

The National Parent Forum of Scotland have launched their latest nutshell for parents which explains what STEM is and why STEM skills are important. Find it here: https://t.co/1QnqGx46tu

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Well done 4ths @edinburghacad on your incredible efforts to find STEM solutions to the coronavirus pandemic for your COVID-19 Digital Course, ‘STEM in the Time of Corona’! Congratulations to the winning Team! #STEM #STEMlearning #STEMlearninguk

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Calling all @edinburghacad Physicists, Design Engineers and Physical Geographers... still time to sign up for a virtual lecture revealing insights into how your school learning @STEMLearningUK @WomenInSTEM20 @STEMscotland can prepare you for careers in the sustainable sciences!

[Young Engineers Society @EngIrelandYES]

Check out this panel discussion with some of @Confirm_Centre female Academics, Researchers and Industry Partners. #INWED20
https://t.co/K8qcQUAVjK

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Coming soon to a Teams space near you... The 4ths digital learning course ‘STEM in the Time of Corona’! Out Wednesday, 17th June #@edinburghacad ! #STEMeducation #STEM #

[Edinburgh Academy STEMs @EdAcadScience]

Live: Launch America — NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 Mission to the International Space Station https://t.co/aef3ps90SO