SEA films pilot project - Glasgow October 15, 2008

Glasgow Science Centre and I are running a pilot project: Science & Engineering Ambassadors (or enthusiastic hangers-on) come up with ideas for short films, and pitch them to a panel of school students. The winning film gets made, and will be published on Futuremorph, the Science Council's new careers website.

Come along to this initial meeting with some rough ideas: we'll help you develop them and hone your pitch. We're looking for ideas that tell us something about you, what you do, and why you do it - demonstrate or wax lyrical about some aspect of science that excites you, tell us how you got into it in the first place, paint a picture of where your research might lead, ... one thing that might inspire teenagers, that can be outlined in three minutes or less.

We have a friendly group of school students standing by to receive your best ideas on the morning of 21st October; whichever pitch they like best they'll turn into a film on the afternoon of 24th October.

Open to all SEAs or other professional scientists/engineers/mathematicians, etc: the more extrovert the better. Come prepared to be enthusiastic and inspiring; I'll supply the beer.

You're welcome to join us without signing up here, but it'd be useful to have an idea of numbers: drop me an email to jonathan[at]quernstone.com, if you would. I'm hardly going to turn people away, though, am I?

-- Jonathan.

(for those who don't know me: I'm a lapsed physicist turned television producer: I made science programmes for children for ten years or so. I'm now running SciCast, a national project which encourages school groups and others to make short films about practical science, and share them online as an educational resource and source of entertainment. SciCast is a joint project of NESTA, the Institute of Physics, the Engineering & Technology Board, and the EPSRC.

This pilot is for a proposed careers extension/sister project to SciCast; funding comes from The Science Council.

Any questions, drop me an email: jonathan[at]quernstone.com. )