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Online
FIRST LEGO League Challenge - Building the Next Generation of Engineers
FIRST LEGO League Challenge is a robotics-based life skills competition for students aged 11-16 years and teams experience and develop key STEM skills and important transferable skills. This webinar will cover all about the First Lego League, the process and stages for schools and highlight the opportunities for coaching, mentoring and volunteering at competitions.
- Speaker:
- Ross Maguire LearnIt
- Date/Time:
- Tuesday 29th November 2022 @ 6:30 PM
- Venue:
- Online via Zoom
- Hosted By:
- IET Ireland
- Details:
- https://events.theiet.org/events/first-lego-league-challenge-building-the-next-generation-of-engineers/
Online
Lecture: Salt marshes' carbon sequestion capacity may be higher than we thought
Salt marshes are blue carbon ecosystems with high carbon burial rates. Its carbon cycling has received increasing attention on the processes driving soil carbon stocks and carbon burial. However, carbon fluxes via groundwater flushing in salt marshes are potentially important yet poorly understood. Recent studies by Prof Ling Li and his team found that pore-water exchange could produce a significant component in the saltmarsh carbon budget. And this lecture is about his research finding.
- Speaker:
- Prof Ling Li
- Date/Time:
- Wednesday 30th November 2022 @ 7:30 AM
- Venue:
- Online via Zoom
- Hosted By:
- China
- Details:
- https://email.ietinfo.org/q/1eWehtNO6NlMw78QIswRlqn/wv
In-Person
A New Way to Teach Leadership/Behavioural Change
The speaker, Dr Ian Corrie, is a former police officer, and now Associate Professor and Principal Lecturer in the Institute of Health at the University of Cumbria. He has a DProf in Transformative Learning. He designs and delivers strategic (and behavioural) change programmes in the Nuclear Engineering, Health, Armed Forces and private sectors. He is an Honorary Colonel with 335 Medical Evacuation Regiment. In his talk he will share the development of a new way to teach leadership/behavioural ch
- Speaker:
- Dr Ian Corrie
- Date/Time:
- Thursday 1st December 2022 @ 11:00 AM
- Location:
- The Netherwood Hotel and Spa, Grange-over-Sands
- Hosted By:
- IET Lancashire and Cumbria
In-Person
Forensic Science
The war in Ukraine and the horrific crimes reportedly committed by Russian troops emphasises the need for the International Criminal Court and collection of scientific and other evidence to support future prosecutions. She may also report on other case studies.
- Speaker:
- Isobel Colclough
- Date/Time:
- Wednesday 11th January 2023 @ 7:30 PM
- Location:
- The Forum, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 1HH
- Hosted By:
- IET Lancashire and Cumbria