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These scientists were just like real people!

Hi everyone, hereโ€™s a summary of how the March 2009 event went (PDF download). I was supposed to write a couple of pages so of course itโ€™s 12 pages long (Iโ€™m the same with cooking โ€“ if I have a couple of friends round I make enough food for ten and weโ€™re eating leftover curry โ€™til thursdayโ€ฆ). Fortunately Shane (my boss) is busy being terribly important in London running his G20 bloggers tent, and hanging out with Bob Geldof (pictured), so he canโ€™t tell me off about it. What we found was pretty similar to the pilot (but itโ€™s important to check everything is still working:-)). One of my favourite quotes was the one I used as the title. Students were over and over amazed that โ€˜scientists are just like real peopleโ€™, and that they were taking time to talk to young people. They also couldnโ€™t quite get over that โ€ฆ Continue reading โ†’

Posted on April 3, 2009 by in Evaluation, IAS Event. Tagged , , . Comments Off on These scientists were just like real people!

The next phase begins โ€“ working towards running the event again, bigger, next year

The event evaluation report is now nearly finished. Sorry for a bit of a hiatus while we were running Iโ€™m a Councillor (just because weโ€™ve got our new IAS baby, doesnโ€™t mean we can neglect our first born:-)). We hope to get the evaluation report online some time next week (plus a summary โ€“ the whole thing is over 100 pages long. Even I donโ€™t think anyone will want to read all of it, beautifully crafted prose though it is). The extremely short version is that everyone loved it and every single teacher and scientist who responded said they would recommend the event to a colleague. Even the teachers who got it dumped on them at the last minute loved it.           

Posted on November 24, 2008 by admin in Event News. Tagged , , , , , . Comments Off on The next phase begins โ€“ working towards running the event again, bigger, next year