STEM LIVE! Student Event – Science Museum, London

Alexandra Knight is an award-winning engineer, presenter and diversity advocate. She is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of the Women's Engineering Society, a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at Brunel University and a STEM Ambassador. She worked in the engineering industry for over 15 years before focusing full-time of Stemazing.

Alex strives to be a visible role model. She has featured on TV shows like Channel 5's Ancient Engineering and Curiosity Streams The Year That Rocked The World, and regularly speaks at schools, universities and industry conferences as a technical expert and diversity champion.

Discover iconic objects and stories of incredible scientific achievement at the Science Museum in London. Explore hands on galleries and exhibitions from Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries to discover how our ideas about health have changed throughout history, to the present day to Information Age: to trace how our lives have been transformed by information and communication technologies over the last 200 years and many more.

Industry professionals will provide information and entertaining presentations to ignite your students' aspirations whilst perfectly complementing your learning objectives.

Step into the fascinating world of STEM careers for a peek behind the scenes in the Science Museum’s brand new interactive gallery. Experience what it’s like to create visual effects on a blockbuster film set, analyse blood samples in a medical laboratory, operate a robot in a manufacturer's workshop, fix a fault atop a wind turbine and much more. Recreating the workplaces of technicians across multiple sectors – health science, creative arts, manufacturing and renewable energy – students will get hands-on with interactive exhibits that simulate job-related tasks. The gallery is created in collaboration with Marvel Studios, the NHS, National Grid, the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and many others. 

In this hands on workshop, students will get to meet a technician and experience what it’s like to do their job. They will carry out job-related tasks in activities led by a real life technician as a role model to help students to identify the skills needed. There will be plenty of opportunities to ask the technician questions throughout the task and in a special Q&A session. Students will find out what it's like to do their job, how they got into it, what inspired them to become a technician and more. 

For those schools using the Gatsby Benchmarks for Good Career Guidance, this event supports Benchmark 4 – Linking curriculum learning to careers, and Benchmark 5 – encounters with employers and employees. 

Jon Chase is a science communicator, author and science rapper based in South Wales. He has an intense passion for scientific thinking and believes that knowledge should be made available in a way that allows as many people as possible the opportunity to gain access to it. He has presented science for BBC learning on TV and YouTube and also co-authored books on The Science of Star Wars, The Science of Harry Potter and The Science of Jurassic World. In 2017 he was awarded the Josh Award in Science Communication but is perhaps best known for his science raps, which he has produced for various learning establishments and organisations including NASA and the BBC.