STEM in tutor time

What is STEM? Science, technology, engineering and maths These subjects are going to find the solution to the worlds problems.

What is it? Question the world around you. What is it for? How was it made? Can it be better?

It also welds and glues with precision. A robotic arm that cam be programmed to handle parts so it can help with loading and unloading. It also welds and glues with precision.

A light sensor “sees” who it is drawing. An industrial robot has been modified to autonomously create pencil sketches of human subjects. A light sensor “sees” who it is drawing.

What is it? Question the world around you. What is it for? How was it made? Can it be better?

Chromosomes- the genetic information of living things Image taken by a scanning electron microscope The 8 chromosomes are yellow on a blue background

What are the consequences? Modifying the structure of genetic material changes the characteristics of living things. What are the consequences?

What are they famous for?

Aging rock star? Engineer? TV presenter?

Sir James Dyson, CBE, is a British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company. He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner

Politician Adele’s dad Mechanical engineer

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859, was an English mechanical and civil engineer. Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship and numerous important bridges and tunnels.

Who is experiencing weight-lessness Who is experiencing weight-lessness? A) Astronaut B) Politician C) Physicist

Stephen William Hawking CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.

Actress Biochemist Author

Dorothy Hodgkin,1910-1994, was a British biochemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. Dorothy Hodgkin looked at how atoms fit together into very complicated molecules. She used X-ray crystallography to find out what penicillin and insulin look like.

Actor Mathematician Journalist

The Liverpudlian is best known for the serious maths that has come from his analyses of games and puzzles. In 1970, he came up with the rules for the Game of Life, a game in which you see how patterns of cells evolve in a grid. Early computer scientists adored playing Life, earning Conway star status. He has come up with wonderful-sounding concepts like surreal numbers, the grand antiprism and monstrous moonshine.