Community and Vocational Chair Sandra
Morrey (West Bridgford)
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Chair
EXCITEMENT OF SCIENCE INFORMATION FOR
ROTARY CLUBS
Now in its 9th year - this is a hugely
successful community service project between Rotary International in
Britain & Ireland and the Royal Institution in Great Britain.
The Royal Institution invites any school
(pupils aged 13 to 18) to join their science researchers, collecting
original data to help inform the latest scientific developments. Once
registered, schools will then have access to scientific data via the
internet and this will be used by the pupils to form their research and
carry out experiments. Data collected by individual schools between
February and May 2010 will be analysed and then presented at the famous
Royal Institution in London on Tuesday 22 June 2010. The Grand Finale
programme for the day begins with a light-hearted demonstration of some
explosive, yet challenging chemistry by a scientist having no obvious
fear of explosives or of the finger-depleting properties of liquid
nitrogen! This is then followed up with a discussion of the results
collected, and the audience is invited to contribute their hypotheses
for discussion by the research scientists.
This year's project is in the field of
sports science and will involve, in particular, measuring and analysing
arterial blood flow through an examination of live ultrasound images of
the human body.
Priority for tickets to the Grand Finale
will be given to actively participating school students and their
teachers. Students who are not able to attend can take part over the
Internet as the Excitement of Science website will be used to webcast
the activities taking place in the Faraday Theatre. It is hoped that
teachers will use the webcasts both to include groups that took part in
the research project, and to support their teaching in general to best
suit their needs. Rotary and the Royal Institution are providing the
teaching tool, it is for the teaching professionals to decide how to use
it.
TIMELlNE
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Monday 30 November 2009 -
Registration begins via
www.excitementofscience.org (Note: schools AND Rotary Clubs must
all register)
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Monday 15 February 2010 - Schools
commence research and data collection phase
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Tuesday 22 June 2010 - Grand
Finale at The Royal Institution, London
BENEFITS
Community Service by encouraging young
people to become enthusiastically involved in science, also linking with
local schools which may provide opportunity for Clubs to introduce other
Rotary projects to schools. It helps to raise awareness of Rotary both
in the schools and also in the local community if you publicise this
project in the local media after the event - adding a short paragraph
about Rotary and how the readers can get involved could increase
membership. HOW TO GET INVOLVED
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More information on the Excitement of
Science website (above)
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Contact local secondary schools
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Schools AND Rotary Club must register
on-line
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Inform District 1220 E of S contact -
Rtn
Mike Rhodes (RC of Newark Castle)
so he can keep you up to date with info and arrange tickets
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Keep regular contact with school
Sandra Morrey - 0115 9231092 or 07966
171261
Send a message to Sandra 4th January 2010
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