Bath Taps into Science (TAPS) 2014
A group of postgraduate students from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Communications participated in the Bath TAPS into Science festival on the 21st March 2014 where they organised demos for Years 6-9 schoolchildren. The event, held at the University of Bath, involved researchers from all the local universities (Bath, Bristol and UWE).
More than 1,600 children from local schools and several schools from Spain had the opportunity to learn about what fun engineering can be. to learn about mobile phone network planning via an interactive game and to consider how technology has developed in phones to make them smaller, lighter and more energy efficient.
Bath Taps into Science (TAPS) 2017
In 2017, Bath TAPS was organised as part of the British Science week, and our postgraduate students provided a series of demos for the 1,700 local schoolchildren who attended. Activities were designed for Year 5 to 8 students to demonstrate that everyone can enjoy, and engage with science & engineering, technology & maths via exhibits presented in a fun, engaging and hands-on manner. The CDT also invited Year 12 students from a local school, Colston’s, to co-present the demos, which provided a practical insight into developing communications technology.
From inspiring potential engineers still many years away from starting their careers, to disseminating the benefits of research once it has been done - outreach is at the core of why we do research in the first place.
