From flying kites to inventing planes. All great inventions often begin as “impossible ideas. At first, it is just one thinker, one dreamer, against the world. Think back to a child flying a kite. The joy is simple—holding the rope, watching the kite rise, and learning how the wind carries it. But hidden in that […]
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Among innovation platforms, hackathons are by far the ones gaining more ground. It all started in the early 2000s, when tech companies launched hackathons to develop new software. Deriving from the words ‘marathon’ and ‘hacking’, such a “marathon for hackers”, is a phenomenon that nowadays transcends computing but applies to every area of human knowledge.
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Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, and Ada Lovelace are just some of the remarkable women who paved the way for future generations of female scientists. Since then, many women have made significant contributions to scientific fields and have changed the world with their research. At BeScience STEM, we honour their legacy by being committed to advancing
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Within our #1MillintoSTEM podcast campaign we talked about starting a career in Science through a lab scientist apprenticeship. Among all vocational pathways, there’s an incredibleuptake on STEM apprenticeships in real-world projects involving industry cutting-edgetechnologies. Nowadays, apprentices form an important part of workforce planning across arange of levels and programmes in non-traditional areas, like digital marketing
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Robotics! A word that lights up the imagination of every curious young mind fascinated by STEM.For many, it seems like a realm reserved for adults with lab coats and grey beards—a high-tech world out of reach for the young. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. With curiosity, creativity, and determination, anyone—no matter their
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What do Statistics, Paramedic Science, and Astronomy have in common? Well, they are all part of the STEM disciplines, namely, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Since the acronym was coined in the early ‘90s, the popularity of STEM as an educational curriculum has increased enormously. Schools now teach data-driven syllabuses and offer practice-based workshops aimed
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