Photographic Competition 2024 deadline extended – enter now!

We are pleased to advise that our Centenary Photographic Competition 2024, this year on the theme of Time, is now open until Friday 14 June 2024 to allow for further entries.

We want you to take photographs (up to 3 entries) that express what time means to you, or how it impacts health or our environment, including the negative or positive roles of technology.

The competition is open to primary or secondary aged students living or educated in Essex. We will be looking for photos that are creative in their approach, with an innovative angle on the subject or a creative interpretation of the themes.

There are two categories of entry: one for primary school students and one for those at secondary level. Cash prizes are available!

You can read the full details here or click below to submit an entry.

Click here to submit your entry »

Happy snapping!

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Centenary Photographic Competition 2024: Time

For Primary and Secondary Students

Taking a camera or your phone and shooting a picture is an easy. But how about, when composing your image, you think about how your picture might be used to discover some aspect of science and engineering?

From your camera or mobile phone to a flower or a rainbow, from a bubble to radio mast, from smoke to light, from microscopy to astronomy, everywhere in our modern world we are facing science and engineering wonders that make our lives easier and more fun. This is the fifth year of our competition and we have had some outstanding winners.

Science meets Art – Our annual photographic competition aims at creating an opportunity for you to creatively express what you observe within science, in pictures, and we hope that this will get you to explore the visual aspects of STEAM through the art and science of photography and capture images that demonstrate and communicate STEAM concepts and phenomena.

This year 2024,

the focus of the competition is on:

"Time"

(Including everything from clocks, hourglasses, sundials to biological clocks, sunsets, stars, ancient monuments and more!)

We want you to take photographs (up to 3 entries per person) that express what Time means to you or how it impacts health or our environment, including the negative or positive roles of technology. Each photograph must be accompanied with a short plain language explanation (not more than 50 words) of the thoughts behind your photograph.

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CSES continues to support schools with technology and engineering

CSES bursary kits granted to Chelmsford County High School for Girls

As part of the ongoing commitment to education, support and inspiration Chelmsford Science and Engineering Society (CSES) has been working with Chelmsford County High School (CCHS) for girls.

CSES member Ed Bye has been working with a group of sixteen keen and enthusiastic year 10 (14/15 years of age) students at Chelmsford County High School.

One lunchtime a week during the autumn term, the students have been exploring control electronic engineering and stored program systems based on the Micro:bit microcontroller.

In the world, there are by far many more devices (microcontrollers) than computers. With increasing electronics finding its way into all sorts of items, this number will grow. As an example, a typical budget low-end car has about 25 microcontrollers, a high-end luxury car can have over 50 microcontrollers.

The current generation of students will be using microcontrollers, developing their own equipment and projects to solve engineering problems. Thus, giving young students some insight and experience with microcontrollers puts them at an advantage and an early start.

To enable some understanding and to provide some practice with this technology, Ed designed a kit of parts to work specifically with the Micro:bit. There is a variety of about 25 sensors and actuators, shown below. These could be used in numerous projects in conjunction with a Micro:bit.

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TEXPO 2024 (save the date) and Big Bang

TEXPO Schools' Competition: Fri 21 June 2024, Anglia Ruskin University

We are pleased to confirm the date for the 2024 CSES Schools' Technology Exhibition (TEXPO).

The dates will be as follows:

• The TEXPO will take place on Friday 21 June 2024.
• The awards evening will take place on one evening of Thursday 11 July 2024.

Find out more about the competition here.

We are open for early-bird entries – click here to enter the TEXPO now – and will send further details in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, remember to enter this year's Big Bang competition!

From passion to project

The Big Bang Competition is open for entries! Inspire students to work together, problem solve and get creative with science, engineering and technology. New for this year, celebrate your students' inner innovator with brand-new technology prizes, supported by Siemens.

Entries will close on 27 March at 5pm so you've got plenty of time to start a project!

Find out more about The Competition and how to enter online.

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