The University of Southampton’s Principal Public Engagement Fellow Dr Steve Dorney ran a 4-hour workshop with all NGCM CDT students to outline motivations for public engagement but more importantly to make participants aware of the many different ways of engaging the public with science and engineering research, and to inspire the students to extend that portfolio with their own contributions.
During the day, the CDT students planned engagement activities for the Winchester Science Centre, the University’s Science and Engineering day, and the Roadshow of the University of Southampton.
Ideas included the Python in Minecraft activity that Cohort 2 student Alvaro Perez started as a summer project (github).
Volunteers of the CDT will be supporting the actual implementation and delivery of the outreach activities in the coming weeks and months.
Written by Hans Fangohr