We are here to inspire your young and curious through our virtual Bloodhound experiences Take part in a Bloodhound experience with our end of term virtual workshops, Christmas holiday activities or book to visit our education centre in the New …
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Bring STEM subjects to life with these activities based on the Bloodhound Project! Our downloadable resources are designed for you to use with all children, and can be adapted to suit a range of ages and abilities. These resources include …
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We are currently closed but we look forward to opening again as soon as we can to welcome visitors back to our Education Centre. The safety and wellbeing of our visitors and team are our priority. Therefore, in line with …
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Children having “a fabulous time!” Two local schools visit the Bloodhound Education Centre and explore all the exciting things to do there. See the video below to see what the children and their teachers have to say … If you …
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During this Covid-19 crisis, team member Mike Ford has been putting our 3D printers to good use making face shields for local healthcare workers. We wanted to share this and enable you to help the heroes too!
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New: watch the Channel 4 documentary “Building the World’s Fastest Car“. During October and November 2019, the Bloodhound LSR team successfully completed high speed testing in South Africa, passing the 1,000 km/h mark on its final run. But the team …
Read More >Take part in a Bloodhound experience with our end of term virtual workshops, Christmas holiday activities or book to visit our education centre in the New Year.
End your term with a fun and engaging STEM day Bloodhound focused
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Alongside virtual engagement we have developed a tool kit of workshop resources to enable you to deliver a Bloodhound experience in the classroom or STEM club.
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Bringing the Bloodhound science and technology to life:
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The Education Centre is open for group activities and has been recognised as a safe venue to bring your group, class or family. We offer interactive presentations, engaging activities and an opportunity to see the Bloodhound LSR car
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With the current restrictions you may not be thinking about engagement for next year, but now is the time to make a booking>
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If you want to know more about how we can support you next term click the link below for more information on all the above including pricing available on our website here.
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| Don’t forget to watch the Channel 4 documentary ‘BUILDING THE WORLD’S FASTEST CAR’ 6pm 14th November 2020.
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We are delighted to be working with Cambridge Science Centre to put on an inspiring exhibition for you to explore from Saturday 15th August until Friday 4th September. Have fun in one of the family activities such as 3D Printing and take a tour of the full size Bloodhound Education car.
Booking details are on their website – www.cambridgesciencecentre.org
As we all start to venture out a bit more and look for things to keep the kids interested this summer, we just wanted to let you know that Bloodhound Education have lots of new exciting opportunities, activities and resources to inspire and delight you. Take a look at what we have on offer and join in the fun!
A summer programme of fun, hands-on and Covid safe Bloodhound activity workshops are starting next week at The Bloodhound Education Centre in the Gloucestershire Science and Technology Park, so book now for the chance to build and race your own ‘rocket car’ to speeds of over 50mph!
We are delighted to be working with Cambridge Science Centre to put on an inspiring exhibition for you to explore from Saturday 15th August until Friday 4th September. Have fun in one of the family activities such as 3D Printing and take a tour of the full size Bloodhound Education car.
Booking details will coming soon to their website – www.cambridgesciencecentre.org
During lockdown we increased our online resources and these are still available for you to sample for yourselves over the summer.
To see what we have on offer click here – www.bloodhoundeducation.com/bloodhound-experiments/
Keep up to date with all the latest information on the Bloodhound Education programme, including inspirational science and engineering activities, additional teacher resources and how to bring the excitement of Bloodhound and the World Land Speed Record to you!
In this issue:
• Busy times at the new Bloodhound Education Centre
• The Bloodhound Education Centre Opens its doors to school children
• Mike Ford keeping busy 3D printing PPE during Covid 19 pandemic
• Check out our new free home learning resources
• Some great feedback from teachers using our resources
• New Bloodhound Experience packages coming soon for hire
• A big thank you to all our ambassadors during Volunteer Week and some sad news
• Support us
The new Bloodhound Education Centre opened its doors to pupils in March. Giving a wide range of pupils the opportunity to experience Bloodhound workshops and activities for themselves.
Everyone had a great time and the teachers and young engineers gave us some really positive feedback.
To find out more about the Education Centre, click here
Watch the video of the day.
An ongoing campaign by our very own engineer has provided West Norfolk’s healthcare workers with hundreds of face shields as part of efforts to maintain good levels of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mike Ford has produced over 2000 face shields for West Norfolk’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, local care homes, the Tapping House Hospice, the Borough Council and Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
Utilizing the 3D printers we usually use for demonstration in the classroom, Mike continues to put his engineering skills to good use through the pandemic.
Read more and find out how you can do the same
One of the many challenges of Covid-19 has been home learning. We have been busy adapting classroom workshops and creating new activities so the exciting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) activities for the young and curious can have fun and keep learning.
Click here for videos, slide shows, notes for ‘teachers’ and loads of fun activities covering many topics and linked to the curriculum.
Also check out the great BBC learning zone videos and experiments to try.
‘I absolutely love it when science and STEM really come to life. My belief is it’s so important for children of all ages to see the relevance of these subjects and learn about real world situations and their place in it all. The Bloodhound Education activities, challenges, tasks and resources really do this. Running an online science club it was a privilege to work alongside Rob in developing a challenge for the club to complete. The Bloodhound Education team are fantastic and always available for input plus responding to tasks is a real positive and wonderful for young people to see how important their work is. A series of videos and tasks were also set for the wider school audience to have a go at completing. The vast amount of resources ensure there really is something for everyone no matter of age or interest. It was wonderful to see my students excitedly responding to tasks. All activities are also really well developed to make sure everyone is able to complete them whether at home, school or a club with easy to follow step by step guides and full explanation behind each task. I look forward to a time when we are able to visit the Bloodhound Education Centre’
Mrs Briggs
Science Teacher, Darton Academy
We understand the continued challenges the current pandemic presents all our lives and the education experience of young people. Over the coming weeks we are planning to put together Bloodhound Education Experience boxes containing workshop resources and activity guides with links to video content and live tours etc.
If you have suggestions or ideas, we would love to hear from you as we develop the resources you want. Please email us at enquiries@bloodhoundeducation.com.
Across the UK our team of ambassadors have put in thousands of hours supporting outreach into schools and communities. We owe them a debt of gratitude and truly couldn’t do it without them. During this volunteer week, we salute you.
If you would like to help inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers in this changing world where the need is greater than ever…
Click on the link: https://bloodhoundeducation.com/support-us/ambassador-programme/
We’re saddened to announce that one of our most longest serving and enthusiastic ambassadors John Wood, known to everyone as “Woody” has passed away after a short illness. Woody will be very much missed at our events and by all his friends in the land speed and motor racing world. Our deepest condolences to his family.
We couldn’t do what we do without the support of our education partners and sponsors. With new STEM roles expected to double in the next 10 years and a 2017 shortfall of 173,000 skilled STEM professionals, working with us means you’ll be helping support the development of new STEM talent.
Get in touch if you would like to discuss supporting our inspirational work with children and young people.
Two local schools visit the Bloodhound Education Centre and explore all the exciting things to do there. See the video below to see what the children and their teachers have to say …
If you would like to visit us, click here for more information.
During this Covid-19 crisis, team member Mike Ford has been putting our 3D printers to good use making face shields for local healthcare workers. We wanted to share this and enable you to help the heroes too!
Bring STEM subjects to life with these activities based on the Bloodhound Project!
Our downloadable resources are designed for you to use with all children, and can be adapted to suit a range of ages and abilities. These resources include games, projects, competitions and complete lessons that correspond to the National Curriculum (UK).
Click here for our tried and tested learning resources that can be used by anyone.
Teachers: Have a look at our Themes and Workshops – you can book us to visit you when we’re all back to normal!
We are currently closed but we look forward to opening again as soon as we can to welcome visitors back to our Education Centre.
The safety and wellbeing of our visitors and team are our priority. Therefore, in line with government guidance, a number of measures have been implemented to ensure we reopen safely and that visitors can return with confidence.
We can’t wait to see you again!
Keep up to date with all the latest information on the Bloodhound Education programme, including inspirational science and engineering activities, additional teacher resources and how to bring the excitement of Bloodhound and the World Land Speed Record to you!
In this issue:
• Busy times at the new Bloodhound Education Centre
• Bloodhound Education founder Dawn Fitt receives OBE
• New Ambassador Graham Pay shares his experience
• Special report from the WorldSkills UK Live 2019 show
• Richard Noble talks fast cars at Porsche
• Work with us
• Support us
Our new Education Centre has already been busy hosting events, with Family Rocket Car Experience activities in the Christmas holidays and an Open Day alongside the Bloodhound LSR Supporters Day in late January.
Find out more about what families got up to when they visited us. Then get in touch if you’d like us to host your event or to bring any of our workshops and activities to your school, college or club.
We also have more Family Rocket Car Experience activities running in February half-term, so book now and please spread the word
Dawn Fitt has been involved in Bloodhound’s education programme since the project started back in 2008, setting it up, running it for seven years and then more recently becoming a trustee of the charity. We’re delighted that she’s received recognition for all her work in promoting STEM and engineering!
We caught up with Dawn to find out what inspired her to become an engineer and how she got involved in inspiring others. She also shares her thoughts on further opportunities to inspire students to take the apprenticeship route into engineering.
Graham Pay travelled further than most to deliver his first talks as a new Bloodhound Ambassador when he crossed the English Channel to visit schools in Guernsey and Jersey in September. However, having grown up on Guernsey, he had a particular interest in taking the story into local schools there following an invitation from the Channel Island Group of Professional Engineers (CIGPE).
We always need more Ambassadors to inspire young people! Read Graham’s story to find out what it’s like as a first-time Ambassador. Then learn more about what Ambassadors do and how to join us on our Ambassador Programme page.
The Bloodhound Education team attended the WorldSkills UK Live 2019 show late last year, immediately after Bloodhound LSR had achieved a top speed of 628mph in South Africa. The stand, complete with revamped modular car, was very busy with students who are fans of the project – including a young man who is now an apprentice with BAE Systems as a direct results of a Bloodhound Education team visit to his school five years ago.
Found out how we can inspire your students.
Former world land speed record holder Richard Noble visited the Porsche Centre in Tewkesbury recently to talk about the history of world land speed records and his involvement with the sport, supported by a team of Bloodhound Education Ambassadors.
If you’d like Richard or anyone from the Bloodhound Education team to give a presentation at your event, please get in touch.
If you would like to be part of a friendly, busy team and like the idea of inspiring children and students with unique, fun activities, we’d love to hear from you!
We currently have a vacancy for an Events Coordinator and Administrator (part-time) based at our Education Centre. And we’re always keen to hear from anyone who is interested in helping as a volunteer to become a Bloodhound Ambassador.
We couldn’t do what we do without the support of our education partners and sponsors. With new STEM roles expected to double in the next 10 years and a 2017 shortfall of 173,000 skilled STEM professionals, working with us means you’ll be helping support the development of new STEM talent.
Get in touch if you would like to discuss supporting our inspirational work with children and young people.
