Requests for Ambassadors - secondary

The school are running a term of Olympics themed activities across the curriculum, encompassing all of the STEM subjects plus PE, Art, English, MFL and Communication. Trying hard to help the pupils see the links between subjects and some real-life context.

This is the first time a school has developed a plan like this with us so please help!

There is quite a detailed programme available but specifically they are looking for Ambassador/s who can talk briefly about how they use the subject matter in their job.

It doesn't need to be Olympics related - we've selected the STEM aspects below:
w/c 3/10: reaction times; design magnification and drawing development.
w/c 17/10: Time lines, timing generally; healthy body; Gant charts & project planning.
w/c 31/10: fractions and percentages; designer materials; production flow charts
w/c 7/11: cost of games/profit; streamlining
w/c 14/1: reliability of results
w/c 21/11: affect of weight/shape/mass on objects
w/c 5/12: science of the Luge

Ambassadors with a chemistry background needed to support this event where pupils in Year 10 attend for a half-day and undergo hand-on activities and see demonstrations, being organised in association with the Royal Society of Chemistry plus IChemE.

We are looking for STEM Ambassador specialists, who use the science of chemistry in their everyday work, presenting short explanatory seminars explaining the wide range of situations where this science is used in commerce. 

As this is a late request, any general help would be great if you can't specifically run an activity.

The school would like Ambassadors to help with 2 things:
1) to watch a presentation about "Energy from Waste" projects and if possible (not essential) comment about how this happens in industry - the pupils have worked towards a Bronze CREST award

2) to come up with some ideas for longer term projects in any subject for silver and gold CREST awards.
Support than then stop then or you could work with the students from time to time to assist with the project. Opportunites to assess their work at the end of project also available.

More information on CREST can be found at  www.britishscienceassociation.org/web/ccaf/CREST/AboutCREST  

Exhibitors in the STEM fields needed to support this event, the aim of which is to ensure that the local young people and their parents are fully aware of the many careers available, their occupational routes, training and entry requirements.

At careers fairs we have short chats with young people about what we do for a job and give them some general info about careers in STEM. This is a good intro if you've never done anything as a STEM Ambassador before as the interactions are short and relatively informal.

explore STEM will have a general STEM stand which you could be at and we invite you to bring along some careers literature and/or demos from your company. Alternatively you could bring your own corporate stand along - there is no charge for being part of the event.

Some students in the sixth form study BTEC Level 3 Science and the class teacher would really like to set up some lab visits as for part of their course they have to design a laboratory. Ideally: 

a) a working lab where research or testing is going

b) a University

c) a lab in the NHS