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25/05/2021  Primary Engineer Programmes In the lead up to UN climate summit COP26, the Royal Society is partnering with not-for-profit organisation Primary Engineer- and their new project STATWARS® - to help primary and secondary pupils across the UK develop their data skills and investigate climate change. Through the STATWARS Climate Change Challenge, pupils across the UK will train their analytical and creative skills and find the best ways to live a more sustainable lifestyle. The challenge asks pupils to interrogate datasets to identify three achievable goals, such as recycling, susta...

3D-printed exoskeleton could offer disabled children a helping hand 18 May 2021 Joseph Flaig Dr Matt Dickinson has built an exoskeleton using 3D-printed materials, and it's now being tested at Tinius Olsen Sometimes it takes a child’s question to highlight the obvious. The question for Dr Matt Dickinson from the University of Central Lancashire was: “Why is there not a special shirt that children can wear that will help them move?” The query and a rough design were provided by Christina, a school pupil taking part in the Primary Engineer competition, which combines c...

Application of digital technologies and the effective and efficient use of data have long been talking points in my industry as it has for almost all others, but it feels like the last twelve months have seen an acceleration in that focus, with examples of its importance attached to every aspect of business planning. One contribution to that has been our own personal ‘digital sprint’ as we adopted the use of digital conferencing, VoIP telephony and cloud file sharing with our colleagues. In a matter of days, we enabled digital working that many of us had put off for years, attended ...