Other projects of interest
This page contains links to other projects which may be of interest to those who come to this site. In particular, we sometimes get requests from local schools which are best met by one of these projects. Similarly, some of our volunteers have skills to offer beyond helping regularly in schools, which would fit with one or more of these projects.
- Science and Engineering Ambassadors
- Scheme for students to get involved in science and engineering events in schools.
- ExSciTe
- Local branch of SETNET, which runs science and engineering events locally.
- Science at school
- Part of Cambridge Festival of Science, this has details of how to get a science event in your school.
- Millennium Mathematics roadshow
- A hands-on roadshow which you can book to visit your school.
- Cambridge Hands On Science
- Cambridge students run various events including part of the Cambridge Science Festival and a summer tour.
- Science and Engineering Experiments for Kids (SEEK)
- Engineering events for schools within 5 miles of Cambridge.
- Student Community Action
- The projects which have closest links with ours are Homework Help (working one-to-one with pupils who are struggling) and TESL (working one-to-one with bilingual pupils either at home or at school).
- Black Women's Support Group
- Runs a Saturday school for black and minority ethnic young people in Cambridge. Saturdays in term-time from 11-1, at Parkside Community College. Volunteers interested in helping should email womenblack@hotmail.com.
- Magic Mathworks Travelling Circus
- Hands-on maths activities. Employs students as Mathworkers to help at events.
- Student Volunteering England
- Network for student volunteers nationally, with annual conference in March.
- Cambridge University Commonwealth Society
- The society have a programme of visits to local schools, to talk about cultural differences and similarities between the UK and other commonwealth countries.
- Cambridge Biologists
- A directory to help build links between schools, colleges, universities, companies and other scientific institutions working in biological sciences in the Cambridge area.
- Cambridge University Engineering Department
- Various outreach activities for schools and the general public.
For those considering teaching as a career:
- Teach First
- Scheme for good graduates to teach in inner-city schools for two years alongside mentoring and leadership training to equip them for non-teaching careers afterwards.
- Teacher Training Agency
- All you need to know about routes into teaching.
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