Paignton Library STEM Group

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Paignton Library STEM Group – June 2023

The next meeting of the Paignton Library STEM Group is

Date: Saturday 10th June 2023, Time: 11am to 15:00

We can carry on with the Code Club Python materials as we are progressing nicely with this, also look at MicroPython on the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Hopefully get to do some physical computing with this too.

Please see blog posts on my main blog for details, as there will be updates during the week

Would be good to have more discussions around ChatGPT and AI in general as this is something that going forward people need to have conversations about.

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Paignton Library STEM Group – November 2022

The next meeting of the Paignton Library STEM Group is this Saturday (12th November 2022). 11am to 15:00

The purpose of the Paignton Library STEM Group is to encourage and support participation in STEM subjects. Our event aims to create a friendly hub for STEM enthusiasts to share, collaborate and learn. Please do bring your personal STEM projects to the event, we would love to see what you are working on.

We should be have a mixed bag of activities. In addition to the usual coding that carries on from our Code Club, we have the following planned activities:

  • Some sort of Science / Chemistry practical (possibly reaction rates from last month
  • Basic + Advanced Scratch – If you have a Scratch account please bring the login details, we are NOT able to keep work between sessions.
  • Typesetting chemistry in LaTeX
  • Discussions around school curriculum and STEM

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Please see Contact page for how to get in touch.

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Paignton Library STEM Group – October 2022

The October STEM group meeting will be taking place on Saturday 8/10/2022.

Harding is looking at doing a talk / discussion on

  • Historical units, and dimensions in equations.
  • For engineering equations I offer two examples:-
    • The bending of beams
    • Aerodynamic lift from a wing.
  • Well will also have Prospects from Brixham joining us Prospects have interest in “data, data analytics, data science, perhaps making things with sensors and Raspberry Pis”
  • This event also falls during World Space Week

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Paignton Library STEM Group – September 2022

The September STEM group meeting will be taking place on Saturday 10/9/2022.

No Harding or Lucy this month,

However we can perhaps discuss the NASA Artemis mission and e-safety. We will have copies of Vodafone Digital Parenting to give away, but this will hopefully be part of a wider discussion on e-safety.

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Paignton Library STEM Group – August 2022 Writeup

The August STEM group meeting took place on Saturday 13/8/2022. It was a quiet meeting but fairly productive.

I partly set up a monitor / keyboard and mouse as I was expecting 2 attendees to come along for help with a Raspberry Pi. They didn't make it so, we just carried on with the other planned activities.

We watched the August Space Telescope Science Institute public lecture ( recording ) and had an interesting discussion around this, which also led to a discussion on photography and infra red and UV filtering. Harding also offered a talk on Space and time, which we will discuss further and agree for a later date.

Prior to the meeting starting, and with help from Loic at the library, we set up a tablet with the Lego WeDo 2.0 and got this working. So this is another activity for both Code Club and a future STEM Group meeting.

The next two Code Club will take place on the 20th August and 3rd September, while the next STEM group meeting will be on 10th September. So hopefully more of the same.

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Astro Pi & Moonhack

AstroPi

Giving young people the chance to run their computer programs in space

Another opportunity for people to write some code that will be run on the International Space station. Again something that can be undertaken at Code Club or STEM Group

Moonhack

Moonhack is a free international event bringing kids from across the world together for a week of coding!

Suitable for kids ages 8-15, it’s a free, easy and hands-on way to get coding, no matter where you are.

Over the past 6 years, more than 150,000 kids have coded as part of Moonhack.

Moonhack will take place during world space week in 4th to 10th October 2022.

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