PETROCHALLENGE is an educational event aimed at school pupils aged between 14 – 19 studying maths, science, engineering, geography, IT and business related subjects, to gain first-hand experience of what it’s like to be part of an oil and gas company. The event uses an innovative web-based learning tool developed by Simprentis where participants act […]
The School was contacted earlier this year by Chris Aitken at Wick High School. He had a group of 7 higher students who wished to study Computing at university or college so built on the existing partnership with ourselves to offer a “computing science experience day” to our pupils. The pupils chose which topics they wished to […]
A few days ago on Friday 23rd March myself and a few other academics along with a group of students at BSc, MSc & PhD level visited BP in Dyce to see one of their HIVE (Highly Immersive Environment) installations. The following are a few photos of the group that attended, as well as some […]
RGU news posted last week that we had a stand at the Satrosphere on Saturday 17th March – Robot croquet: Discovery Day to encourage kids to explore science and engineering. Here’s a brief summary of the day and it looks like we were quite the attraction. The Croquet Robots exhibit, jointly representing IDEAS […]
Update: Daniel Doolan now has a post with the winners of the Nokia Phones and the apps they built… See that post here This is how I left things on the Tuesday night… Everything was as organised as it was going to be and there was nothing more to do other than cross fingers that […]
