The discovery centre in Paignton is now open, located at the back of the café, it has a range of interactive displays and activities centred around STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics)

Engineering wall, this is a great activity you can attach different components to the wall and experiment with what happens when you turn one component and how ths interacts with other components. What happens when you connect 2 or more cogs of the same size, what happens if they are different sizes etc?

Contact : Facebook Steam Cafe 13 Torbay Road, Paignton

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A few more photos from the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) discovery centre in Paignton,

Lego table

Craft & Activity table

Contact : Facebook Steam Cafe 13 Torbay Road, Paignton

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The discovery centre in Paignton is now open, located at the back of the cafe, it has a range of interactive displays and activities centred around STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics)

Contact : Facebook Steam Cafe 13 Torbay Road, Paignton

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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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The library has Cancelled this event due to the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II.

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

There is a post on the STEM Group blog with further details.

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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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The August STEM group meeting will take place on Saturday 13/8/2022. As with previous events, this will be a mix of Science, Technology, and Engineering subjects along with discussions and a look at projects brought along to the event.

We will be watching the August Space Telescope Science Institute public lecture ( recording )

Note : I have now fixed the issue with low volume, so we can now turn the sound up to level where people can hear any audio clearly.

Description

Speaker: Alexandra Lockwood (Space Telescope Science Institute)

The Webb Space Telescope has recently showcased its spectacular first images and is now ready to do incredible science! It has been a long road to get here, including meticulous planning, exacting execution, and an amazing amount of teamwork! Join Dr. Alex Lockwood as she talks about the journey from launch to commissioning, explores details of the first images and spectra, and helps us understand the awesome scientific potential of NASA's newest great observatory.

Recorded live on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.

Preceding this I have found a short video to explain emission and absorption spectra,

I have linked some courses on FreeCodeCamp, that are partially related to data analysis and use of Python in Science.

Schedule (talk / video stream)

• Emission and Absorption Line Spectra – A Level Physics
• James Webb – First image & Spectra – STSCI Lecture
  • Scientific Computing with Python
  • Data Analysis with Python
• STSCI
• JWST
• I have downloaded and printed the technical specification for the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope and will make this available too.
• Science forums question on spectra and molecules

The plan is to watch video, then have a discussion around this.

Schedule (projects stream)

As we are a bring you own projects group, then attendees can bring what they are working on, or perhaps carry on with what they are doing at Code Club for example.

Links

• Paignton Library
• Sense about Science
• Free Code Camp

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The Paignton Library virtual code club is still running, please feel free to share what you are working on in Scratch with our Scratch studio

This is a newly created studio for these completed projects.

To keep people safe this studio is also invite only you will therefore need to contact the library, provide your scratch user name and I can invite you in.

Please contact [Paignton Library and information centre](https://www.torbaylibraries.org.uk/web/arena/paigntonlibrary

Related profiles :-

• Scratch: zleap
• Repl.it: @zleap
• FreeCodeCamp

Both Repl.it and FreeCodeCamp have excellent features, to share code, ask for help and help others.

I have been looking in to the Repl.it teams feature at the moment, early days as I think I will wait till the forum feature is up as this seems integral to the teams feature.

Stay safe on the forums.

For advice on e-safety please see ThinkUKnow

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In an effort to help people keep kids occupied over the CoronaVirus (Covid-19) crisis. I am helping my local library with running a virtual code club. We are now on week to of the virtual code club.

Please contact Paignton Library for more information. Please use social media or e-mail as the library is closed.

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