STEAM Academy

25/11/2019

I urge you to support the initiative for better control of the Internet. The campaign has been launched by Sir Tim Berners Lee who is the inventor of the World Wide Web.

If we act, we will be able to motivate our governments to do more to create policies and take control of the situation including the algorithms and programmers that are deciding our futures.

https://contractfortheweb.org/endorse-the-contract/

"Communities are being ripped apart as prejudice, hate and fake news is peddled online. Scammers use the web to steal identities, stalkers use it to harass and intimidate their victims and vested interests are subverting democracy using clever digital tactics.

That’s why a year ago I called for governments, companies and citizens from around the world to create a plan to protect the web as a force for good."

Sir Tim Berners Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web)

24/06/2019

The latest news from across the chemical sciences

21/05/2019

2018 saw replacing Economics for as a second tier entrance subject pre-requisite.

Dr. Michaël Thémans from EPFL spoke about the ways social impact has been integrated into EPFL’s ecosystem for promoting innovation. Innovation at EPFL has been

11/05/2019

An excellent article for anyone who wants to know more about the social justice risk of not learning to code.

Humans, not algorithms are responsible for the mistakes and biases.

"...Make sure there is a meaningful, human appeals process. Plan for how to catch and address mistakes in advance.Take responsibility, even when our work is just one part of the system.Be on the lookout for bias...Push for thoughtful regulations and standards for the tech industry."

https://lnkd.in/gYVjPNM

AI is being increasingly used to make important decisions. Many AI experts (including Jeff Dean, head of AI at Google, and Andrew Ng, founder of Coursera and deeplearning.ai) say that warnings about sentient robots are overblown, but other harms are not getting enough attention. I agree. I am an AI....

07/05/2019

A group of students absorbed by this chocolate vending machine which has its chocolates and coins secured in tubes. The machine was automated to accept coins, (much to the students’ dismay and those who dared to try!), issue cards, and release chocolate bars on card input to release a lever and dispense the chocolate! We loved our Year 10 entrepreneurial mindsets.

07/05/2019

Hands-on learning with circuitry in our Club at and . This Year 9 student investigates how to make a pulley system work more effectively by refining her design to feed and guide the string being turned.

07/05/2019

A perfectly timed marble-maze, a floating, sailing windmill, a sailboat and a chair all made from cardboard tubes! This is and from Year 6 to Year 8 at and .

07/05/2019

A junior scientist explores potential energy converted to kinetic energy as a marble rolls down different inclines in our at and

07/05/2019

A junior pupil tried his hand at modelling fish made out of tubes which he placed on springs. How would they move if we were to have a directional flow of particles?

06/05/2019

Deep questions. Consider some of these: How do nature observation and origami-folding help develop something useful for humans, such as in the fields of medicine or construction? Could just one app shift people’s consciousness to actively support zero waste, recycling, or energy reduction for clim...

06/05/2019

Deep questions. Consider some of these:-

06/05/2019

DEEP QUESTIONS Consider some of these:- How does nature observation and origami-folding help develop something useful for humans, such as in the fields of medic