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STEM Connections Resources

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Learning resources for use in schools and at home

2023 - STEM Connections Cohort #2

a plastic car model with jigsaw pieces missing from it

Electronics inside cars

Ever wondered what is inside an electric vehicle? How is it different to a petrol car?

A green robot

Self-balancing robot

Explore robotics and electrical engineering with these clever bots.

an aerofoil in a wind tunnel with an air blower pointed at it

Aerofoil

Ever wondered what makes planes fly? See the lift from an aerofoil in action.

an image from a microscope showing the surface of a metal sample

The Microstructure of Steel

See the hidden worlds inside steel with a powerful microscope

ishwar holds two sheets of wood with ping pong balls between them that represent the positions of atoms in a crystal structure

Crystal Structures

Find out what makes one material stronger than another.

a hand-cranked electricity generator

Generating Electricity

Power a lightbulb using nothing but your muscles!

a wind turbine

Sustainable energy

Explore wind turbines and how they go with the flow.

2022 - STEM Connections Cohort #1

Two computer screens showing images collected when doing motion capture

Digital Health

Make your own muscle machine

Molecules made from a kit and a poster showing examples of molecules for drug design

Drug Design 

Make your own molecules

A Hand holding an egg with a face and bowtie drawn on with a marker pen

Egg Drop

Can you protect your egg?

7 examples of felt designed with sunquake patterns

Helioseismology 

Design your own sunquake

A silver machine that is used for injection moulding

Injection Moulding

Make your own moulds

An example of paper properties being modified to make it strechy

Metamaterials

Make paper you can walk through

Hands holding a microscope

Microscope - Steel Structure

Make your own water microscope

Toy car made out of wood with a solar panel on top

Solar Power

Make your own solar updraft tower

Thermoelectric generator connected to a light bulb

Thermoelectric Generator

Test out various insulators and conductors