Yesterday we had a meeting with Debbie McNeil, who is organising the Glasgow Science Festival. She is going to help us with our public outreach campaign and has been advising us about the next steps to take.
We are hoping to work with students from schools around Glasgow to engage them because we want them to get an opportunity to learn about the amazing ecosystems we will be exploring. To do so we will become STEM ambassadors (http://www.stemnet.org.uk/content/stem-ambassadors) in the next few weeks. It’s a great preogramme because it will give us the opportunity to work with schools on different project even after the expedition and is recognised UK-wide.
Our first project will be a marine themed hand-print competition; I have tried it out myself below:
I am sure the kids will do a much better job! These prints will also go on our t-shirts, which is exciting. We are really looking forward to get involved in the public outreach, in particular as we think it is important to get pupils excited about the work we will be conducting in Egypt.
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