{"id":4935,"date":"2019-07-24T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2019-07-24T10:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:17:04","slug":"the-big-stem-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/the-big-stem-event\/","title":{"rendered":"The BIG STEM Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.big.uk.com\/bigevent19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2019\/09\/bigevent19-banner-300x114-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4936\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The BIG STEM conference took place in Dynamic earth on the 17th, 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> of July.\u00a0 Henry Rae (Medicine) and Alina loth (Public Engagement) were speakers.\u00a0 The BIG Event is a three day get-together every summer to share skills and experiences, develop professional links and keep up-to-date with the STEM engagement field.\u00a0 This is the place to hone your skills and recharge your professional batteries, pick up great ideas and show off your talents to peers.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2019\/09\/IMG_3284r-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4937\" \/><br \/>\nIt provides an unmissable opportunity to squeeze the skills and ideas out of all the STEM engagement people you can in a short space of time.\u00a0 Henry took part in the 3 minute demonstration event where he tested a volunteers reaction time, then retested their reaction time while counting out loud from 100 backwards in multiples of seven to a large crowd, proving reaction time is adversely affected with a distraction.\u00a0 In real life this shows using a phone while driving is NOT a good idea.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHenry attended \u2018Understanding Exhibit Design\u2019, Explain it to the Explainers, Reduce Recycle, Budget Scicom, Speed Dating (Science communications), Neuropsychology in Practice, Taking the plunge (Into PE), Fan-tastic experiments.\u00a0 These were extremely useful sessions and techniques and equipment used in the sessions will be used in the future.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.big.uk.com\/bigevent19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.big.uk.com\/bigevent19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BIG STEM conference took place in Dynamic earth on the 17th, 18th and 19th of July.\u00a0 Henry Rae (Medicine) and Alina loth (Public Engagement) were speakers.\u00a0 The BIG Event is a three day get-together every summer to share skills and experiences, develop professional links and keep up-to-date with the STEM engagement field.\u00a0 This 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