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This is Sarah Snell-Pym's presentation which she gave during the 'Ignite: For Good' evening mySociety hosted on 29th October 2014 as part of the Bath Digital Festival. Description: Cuddly Science, through puppets, play, exploration and technology aims to show kids and adults the wonders of the STEMM subjects and hopefully inspire the future generation, instilling a 'can do' attitude and putting a lid on exclusion.
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Cuddly ScienceSarah Snell-Pym
We have the wherewithal, theknow-it-all to feed everybody,
clothe everybody, and give every
human on Earth a chance.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Teach a child tothink, toinvestigate, toinnovateAnd they will solve their ownproblems, those of theircommunity and maybe global
ones too.
Image Problem
Science is for EVERYONE
Make Science Cuddly
๏ Sci-Art
๏ Knitting patterns
๏ Stories
๏ Relate it to things they know
Accessibility
Start the thinking young
What is CuddlyScience?A way to engage children in
science, technology, engineering,
maths and medicine
Story Telling and Kids WhoCan’t Count
Role Models
๏ Alan Turing only had one pair of trousers
๏ I had home made clothes and shoes with
holes in
๏ No one in my family went to university
๏ Role models are important
Engagement
Solutions from endemicknowledge, knowledgefrom thought, investigationand self confidence
Universe in a Box
The Future
๏ Tablet computers to help overcome
language barriers
๏ More puppets!
๏ Hand and finger puppets for kids to take
home
Self Perpetuating
Thankyou
๏ UWE science communication department
๏ My mother who helped make the puppets
๏ Alaric who drives me to festivals
๏ Universe in a box
๏ You lot for listening
๏ Ignite for having me
๏ And kids for being generally WOW about
everything
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