This week Chris Hamlett hosted six school students n a In2scienceUK placement. As part of the placement the students worked with Jon Wood to make this great little video about aluminium: youtu.be/YS2gM6PiI54

To celebrate to start of the new school year our new newsletter is now available on our website. It has info about our resources to use in class, some upcoming events that we will be at and features one of our awesome ambassadors. Find out more here: discovermaterials.co.uk/news/discover-…

It was great to be at The Big Bang in June. Here's a video Jon Wood made of the stand and our awesome volunteers. Huge thanks to Henry Royce Institute for their support in making the stand possible & ZEISS Microscopy for lending us their microscopes. youtu.be/dvp0ee34AoY

We are on the Henry Royce Institute stand at #NewScientistLive (New Scientist ScientistEvents ) today showing off smart materials from our busking box and smashing chocolate with our impact tester - huge thanks to our ambassadors from QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science for running the stand

Merry Christmas and welcome to the first day of the #12DaysofMaterials – a series of videos loosely based on the gifts from the 12 Days of Christmas song. Click here for the playlist: tinyurl.com/4j7n8tr7

Day 1 of #12MaterialsofChristmas24 is brought to you by Jon Wood and burning steel tinyurl.com/mvca8n3k #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

Day 2 of #12MaterialsofChristmas24 is brought to you by Chris Hamlett and looks at tortoiseshell plastics tinyurl.com/33vw3ywx #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

On day 3 of #12MaterialsofChristmas24 Chris Hamlett looks at the eggs from the Three French Hens tinyurl.com/5eyawpp3 #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

Who were those calling birds calling? Dr Lizzie Driscoll checks out some materials in a mobile phone tinyurl.com/4hj29p8d #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

Five gold rings? Five SEM stubs more like it! Dr Lizzie Driscoll looks at why gold coatings are needed for looking at some samples in an electron microscope tinyurl.com/yz7b7av7 #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

Did you know that the six geese who were laying can see some UV light? Tess knowles discusses a neat material that helps us detect when UV light is present tinyurl.com/b38z44xt #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

How did those seven swans a swimming stay dry and what can we learn from them? Join Anna to find out more tinyurl.com/mtsnhfwp #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

The eight maids a milking must have gathered a lot of milk – but what to do with is all? Chris Hamlett has some ideas tinyurl.com/yeye7s9s (this is the correct link) #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

Non-Newtonian materials are pretty awesome. In this video Anna discusses how they can be used to protect ballet dancer’s toes. tinyurl.com/yw7jkwju #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

Never mind ten Lords a Leaping, Layla (from Box O Fun) is thinking about the Lords cricket ground and the sustainability of materials used in cricket. tinyurl.com/bd9ndyk4 #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

What pipes are the pipers piping? Jon Wood has a look at how the materials that a pipe is made from can actually slow things down tinyurl.com/mpcvn3v5 #12MaterialsOfChristmas2024

We've got loads coming up in this term - check out our new newsletter to find out what we have planned, learn about some great resources our ambassadors have made and what this microscope image is of (courtesy of ZEISS Microscopy) by following this link: tinyurl.com/yjy3pw56

We are so excited to get this project up and running and to inspire the next generation of #MaterialsEngineers

We are excited to have been awarded an #IngeniousAward from Royal Academy of Engineering to train up Engineers to go into school and work with 11-14 year olds to develop an illustration and videos to showcase the exciting field of #MaterialsScienceandEngineering to their peers.