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InstMC London - Herts Local Sections 7th Annual Golf Challenge Day
These details are also displayed on the Hertfordshire Section website.
Annual Golf Challenge Day Profits Put To Good Use
The London Section continues to donate its share of profits from the London - Hertfordshire
Annual Golf Challenge Day to the Hertfordshire Section for
use in their schools-related work in encouraging pupils to continue their studies in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects.
They recently held another day event, and the content below appears on their web site and was sent to subscribers on
their email distribution list:
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Real Life Maths and Science Day Event
On Friday 9th November 2007 the Hertfordshire Section of the InstMC sponsored and combined with SETPOINT Bedfordshire and Luton and two local companies to deliver another exciting full day of hands-on measurement activities for 72 Year 9 students (Key Stage 3, 13 - 14 year old) at Challney High School for Girls in Luton. The
overall title for the event was Real
Life Maths and Science Day and the underlying theme was If
you want to control something you must first measure it. Three 90
minute sessions were organised for each group of 24 pupils: Our objective in sponsoring and running this event was to show that science and mathematics are creative and enjoyable subjects, and to stimulate the students to consider these for continuing studies and, hopefully, careers. We believe this is vital to the future of our UK economy. We chose Challney High School for Girls to host the event for two main reasons: first, it has the status of a Specialist Science College; secondly it enabled us to reinforce the importance of the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) to a rich ethnic diversity of 13 and 14 year old girls. The feedback received from the students participating in the event was very positive and we believe we have moved some of their views in the direction we intended. We are grateful for the
resources and help provided by Challney High School for
Girls, SETPOINT Bedfordshire and
Luton and the following local companies in making this event
possible: The
event was covered by Luton's local weekly newspaper and you can view a
scanned copy of their published report here. The money used to fund this
event (and the similar day held last year) comes from our Social Fund
balance. This consists of the
proceeds of various social event such as our Annual Summer Garden
Party and the Annual
London - Hertfordshire Golf Challenge Day. We are
grateful for the continuing generosity of the London Section
in donating their share of the profits from the Golf Challenge Day
to us for this
use. You can view photographs from the event here. |
InstMC London-Herts Local Sections 6th Annual Golf Challenge Day
The sixth annual running of this very popular day took place at Redbourn Golf Club on Friday 21st September 2007.
By
following these links you can
view a Report on
the event, details of the Teams,
and the Results.
(If you prefer, you can download these documents as PDF files by following these links: Report (43kB),
Teams (100kB),
Results (64kB).)
Photographs from the day can be viewed by visiting Our Picture Gallery from
the navigation menu on the left hand side of this page.
With reference to the London Section
programme of lectures for 2006/2007 held at the EIC offices, Notting
Hill Gate W11 3LQ , please note that from 19th February 2007
the westward expansion of the current London Congestion Charging Zone
has taken the lecture venue into the zone.
The charge is £8 up to 10:00 pm on the day or £10 up to
midnight on the following day. The operating time has been shortened by
30min from 7.00 am - 6.00 pm.
Please feed back your views as to whether this may influence your
decision to attend future technical lectures
to