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Category Archives: RAEI 2013/14
Crowd Wise – Fracking Debate with The Great Debate, Newcastle
A couple weeks ago I went up to The Great Debate‘s Crowd Wise fracking debate up in Newcastle (funded by RAEI) intending to make a day of it, remind myself of the Crowd Wise process and learn something on the fracking … Continue reading
Intelligent Homes Debate Options
Done more work on developing the event question with several possible stances for our Crowd Wise debate – which is all about participative decision-making. Our debate will be on Intelligent Homes and how, or whether, we can use the relevant technology … Continue reading
Intelligent Homes Part I- How do we empower and enable our elderly, infirm and disabled people to stay in their own homes rather than going into residential care?
Intelligent Homes – In the context of an ageing population, increased financial austerity and a major housing crisis, how do we empower and enable our elderly, infirm and disabled people to stay in their own homes? How can we use … Continue reading
Posted in A4I events, Consultation, Democracy, Electronic engineering, energy, Engineering, Events, General observations, Housing & Retrofitting, Intelligent Homes, Local authority, News for Experts, Our Events & Projects, Public engagement, RAE Ingenious, RAEI 2013/14, Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious, Sheffield's Communities
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Ingenious Forces @ Play! Project Update with Collage of Images
All the latest news on our 2013/14 Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious Grant funded project Ingenious Forces at Play Project Update (opens as pdf) and a collage of images from several of the events we’ve delivered around the Region. We’ve done exceptionally well … Continue reading
Intelligent Homes to empower elderly, infirm and disabled people to stay at home rather than residential care
In considering Intelligent Homes for our final RAEng Ingenious grant-funded event, we plan to explore how to improve the quality of life, independent living arrangements, provisions and support for older people within the context of an ageing population. Benefits for … Continue reading
Posted in Budget cuts, Electronic engineering, Engineering, environment, Events, General observations, Intelligent Homes, Local authority, Our Events & Projects, Public engagement, RAEI 2013/14, regulation and enforcement, Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious, Sheffield's Communities, workshop
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Ingenious Forces at Play! & everyday life
Great shots of children having fun playing with our kit and engaging with engineers at a recent electronic engineering pop-up event. Here children are racing jitterbugs, playing with the Cambridge Electronic Toolkit Plus 2 while having fun while … Continue reading
Wish I’d been born a hardware engineer
A resounding success by any accounts. Engineers had great fun playing with our kit and the many children who visited us – 100 +/- with their teachers, teaching assistants and or parents. A few issues – a gross understatement – … Continue reading
Ingenious Forces at Play with STEMNET State-funded Secondary Schools
Getting Engineers out There and Out on the Street Funded by Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious Grant for engineers to develop public engagement skills and share their passion for engineering also aims to raise awareness with young people in disadvantaged … Continue reading
Posted in A4I events, Electronic engineering, energy, Engineering, Events, General observations, KS2, KS3, Latest news, National Curriculum, News for Experts, RAEI 2013/14, Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious, Schools, Scratch, Sheffield's Communities, Updates
Tagged Engineer, IBM, Jitterbug, National Curriculum, Royal Academy of Engineering, Sheffield City Region, Sheffield Park Academy, university of sheffield
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Sports Engineering at Peace in the Park
An amazingly hot and sunny day for the launch of our first event – took everyone out of their comfort zones. Fahima, Josephine and Robin gave us the thumbs up; loads of fun and lots of laughs as we worked … Continue reading
Posted in A4I events, Electronic engineering, energy, Engineering, Events, General observations, Latest news, News for Experts, Our Events & Projects, Public engagement, RAE Ingenious, RAEI 2013/14, Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious, sports engineering, Updates
Tagged Sports engineering
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Peace in the Park: 5-a-side, Ponderosa Park on Sunday
Fahima, Josephine and I have devised loads of fun activities for our gig at Peace in the Park (down by Tesco’s mini-supermarket) from 11-4 at the Ponderosa Park on Sunday 22nd September Rocket launchers, Steady Hands, Air Zooka and Jitterbug. … Continue reading
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