Account for #STEM at Ockbrook School

Joined November 2019
Who wouldn't love to make their own fizzy drink?! Why not try out this #CREST Bronze Award to get your students to create the perfect recipe for a refreshing beverage! 🥤 See it here: secondarylibrary.crestawards… #STEM #teamscience @PiXLScience
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Step by step, the #MarsHelicopter Ingenuity is getting ready to drop to the surface. Once it’s all unfolded, with four legs down, I’ll be able to cut it free.
Swing low, sweet helicopter... @NASAPersevere is slowly and carefully deploying the #MarsHelicopter, Ingenuity. The tech demo is currently unfolding from its stowed position and readying to safely touch down on the Martian surface. See upcoming milestones: go.nasa.gov/ingenuity
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Year 9 have been studying Nuclear Physics. They have been looking at how chain reactions are used and controlled in nuclear power stations. They used tongue depressors to model a chain reaction and made a 'cobra weave stick bomb'. #atockbroktoday #STEM #nuclearphysics
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The OSPA (Ockbrook School Parents' Association) Easter Competition is here! Guess the number of Items in each jar to win! There is a different jar for primary and senior pupils (head over to Facebook to see the other one). #atockbrooktoday #Easter
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You might have seen photos from Mars, but have you seen high-speed video? 🤩 We captured our @NASAPersevere rover’s final minutes of descent and landing in a way never seen before. Take a look: youtu.be/GUqsH5y1j1M
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Booking for our Online Open Morning is now available. fb.me/e/d2BWCio4h
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making games, having fun - MakeCode Arcade Live! pscp.tv/w/cw1NNzFtTUVQTW55cn…
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The moment that my team dreamed of for years, now a reality. Dare mighty things. #CountdownToMars
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Today is #WomenInScience Day! Take a look at just a few ways women in science have shaped the world we live in today 👩‍💻👩‍🔧👩‍🏭👩‍🔬👩‍⚕️👩‍🎓👩‍🏫👷‍♀️ #WomenInScience #WiSTEM @UN_Women
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OckbrookSTEM retweeted
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize11 Feb 2021
“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science, and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through their research” Kicking off #WomeninScience Day with 2020 laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier
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British Science Week@ScienceWeekUK9 Feb 2021
Want to be in with the chance to win heaps of prizes by entering our annual poster competition?!🎨 Well, not for you – your kids (they don’t have Twitter). Encourage them to get creative by making a ‘Innovating for the future’ poster! For more, visit: bsa.sc/poster-competition
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The Cistercian monks invented a numbering system in the 13th century which meant that any number from 1 to 9999 could be written using a single symbol
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize2 Feb 2021
Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein portrayed together in a photo taken on this day in 1931. They met at the premiere of Chaplin's film 'City Lights'. What do you think they talked about? #NobelPrize
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Historic invention of the day: 1909: Fritz Haber invents the Haber process. The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is an artificial nitrogen fixation process and is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia today.
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As we move to online learning, please check out our YouTube channel, which is packed with resources and lessons. Subscribe now! #ockbrookathome youtube.com/channel/UCNxLLdC…
The 2020 @Ri_Science Christmas Lectures start TOMORROW. @seis_matters is up first (Earth history & geology), then me on Tuesday (oceans!) & @shine_tara (atmosphere & actions) on Wednesday. All 8pm, BBC4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pmbq…
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Today is the birthday of Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (15 Dec 1832 – 27 Dec 1923) who was a French civil engineer. He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to building the Statue of Liberty in New York.
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Thank you @edu_in_action , the #MathsInAction conference was a big hit with our A-Level Maths students. 😀
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Live view of Earth from Crew Dragon → spacex.com/launches/
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