National Ambassador Schemes

The STEM Ambassador Scheme

STEM Learning is a national organisation which creates links between employers (including universities) and educators. As part of this it manages the UK’s network of over 30,000 STEM ambassadors. Ambassadors volunteer with a huge range of activities from careers talks to mentoring school projects, delivering demonstration sessions to helping with mock job interviews, from providing technical advice to judging competitions and more.

Ambassadors are recruited from those working in a wide range of STEM-based careers and professions including environmental scientists, civil engineers, marine biologists, medical physicists, pharmacists, energy analysts, architects, apprentices, zoologists, set designers, climate change scientists, farmers, geologists, nuclear physicists, technicians, pharmacists and many more.

As well as induction sessions, a range of on- and off-line training sessions are available for ambassadors, including:

• Mentoring Training
Develop your mentoring skills with a one-day course, which can be delivered by your local STEM Ambassador Hub.
• Powerful Practicals
We know that the more interactive and hands-on you can make your activities, the more engaging they will be. The Powerful Practicals training looks at how you can turn your good ideas into a practical activity. The training is available either as a two-hour face-to-face training, or as an online toolkit.

Teachers, schools and colleges can request ambassador participation/offer volunteering opportunities for specific events and access free services, expert advice and support, for example with extra-curricular clubs.

The network is managed regionally, collating requests from schools and organising STEM clubs and other events, and disseminating these regular updates of volunteering and training opportunities to local ambassadors.

www.stem.org.uk/stem-ambassadors

Documentation and Resources

Building School – University Partnerships

This Guide Book is intended to both enable university staff to initiate partnerships working with local schools and to aid school staff in making contact with a university they wish to engage with.

Overview

National Ambassador Schemes