This week, the Station in conjunction with RAFA Airplay are holding their annual Summer of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) event to inspire service children through a week of activities.
The week-long event, hosted by our STEM Ambassadors and supported by Airplay and Community Support, saw children excitedly attempt a range of projects from Stixx, which uses paper in tube form to create structures, to LEGO Spike, which uses LEGO building elements and coding to create robots.
The week’s finale will be a trip to the London Science Museum to visit the award-winning exhibitions where the children will be able to see and experience STEM in action.
Event lead, AS1 Darkins said:
“This is what STEM at RAF Brize Norton is all about the RAF Team giving back to the Station community, with a big thank you to Community Support Team and Airplay who work behind the scenes to bring it all together.”
Air Specialist 1 Darkins
Event Leader
Commander Air Wing, Group Captain Burdett said:
“The Community Team here at Brize have put on an exceptional summer programme for our Station families. As a parent, it’s delighted me as much as it has as a Commander! The STEM week is particularly important, because it reinforces so many of the life-skills and approach to innovation that will see our children thrive in school and in later life. As we’ve seen today, the kids have really embraced the challenge, coming up with great solutions to the problems they’ve been set, and thoroughly impressing the Station STEM team and volunteers who are supporting this week-long camp.”
Group Captain Burdett
Commander Air Wing
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