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The National Science & Engineering Competition
The National Science & Engineering Competition seeks to showcase and reward the best student projects from every area of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It is open to all 11-18 year olds living in the UK.
- Big Bang Fair's physics winner is making waves, Institute of Physics
- Thomas Hardye students aiming for the top in Science and Engineering Awards, The Thomas Hardye School
Recent earthquakes
Japan March 2011
- Japan earthquake information from the BGS
- Data recorded by schools
- Teaching resources from IRIS in USA
New Zealand February 2011
School seismology project in the press
- Vibrations couldn't be detected , Salisbury Journal, 12 January 2012
- Budding scientist wins top award at a national science competition, Dorset Echo, 22 March 2011
- Seismometer registers Japanese earthquake on Duncreggan Road, Derry Journal, 21 March 2011
- Surrey school detects Japanese earthquake, BBC news, 11 March 2011
- High school pupils have seismic time monitoring earthquakes,The Shetland Times, 10 March 2011
- The cause and effect of quakes, Plymouth Evening Herald, 11 May 2010
- Earth moves for seismic students, Mid Sussex Times, 27 April 2010
- Huge earthquakes detected by Haywards Heath students, Mid Sussex Times, 21 April 2010
- Students predicting major quakes, thisisleicestershire.co.uk, 13 April 2010
- Geography Matters (post 16 and HE Committee of the GA newsletter), Spring 2010
- High school pupils have seismic time monitoring earthquakes, 10 March 2010
- School pupils monitor Haiti disaster, Newport Advertiser, Jan 22 2010
- Glasgow school pupils detect devastating Haiti earthquake, Glaswegi@n, Jan 21 2010
- "Leeds pupils tracking quake disasters", Yorkshire evening post Oct 2009
- The school seismology station in the south atlantic hits the local news
- Village hit by quake, 24 June 2009
- SEP seismometer in Barcelona detects Messi goal in Champions League final, 27, May 2009
- Did the Earth Move for Thomas Hardye School in Dorset, SecEd page 12, May 2009
- Pupils experience worldwide shaking feeling, The Sentinel, May 2009
- Geology — Will the earth move for you? TES connect, April 2009
- Earth moves for school's science pupils, The Edinburgh Paper Evening News, May 2009
- Glow Scotland blog, May 2009
- Students making waves with aftershock analysis, Leicester Mercury, Nov 2008
- Quake leaves area shaken but not stirred, Burton Mail, Feb 2008
- Tremor Expert sleeps right through quake! Billingham, Feb 2008
- Quake data recorded by school, Southwell advertiser, Feb 2008
- A very successful workshop was held at Imperial College in London on 9 July for 15 schools from London and the SE
- King Edwards High School in Edgbaston appear on BBC news with their school seismometer system.
International Collaborations
The UK school seismology project is taking part in an EU project called NERA, linking with projects in France, Italy and Switwerrland to share best practice and data. The project will run from 2010-2014.
October 28th 2009, a major upgrade to the school seismology website has involved a merging of databases with school seismology networks in the USA managed by IRIS (www.iris.edu/hq/ssn)
