Oooh this is getting exciting! Look out for us using our new Arduino kits!! Alongside some other electronics kit and our 3D printers, we at DNW RAF Air Cadets are taking our first steps into ROBOTICS!!🤖

✨Blue Space✨ One of our responsibilities is making sure all cadets have the opportunity to earn their Space Qualifications We go to squadrons to deliver Blue Space and then run Bronze Space Courses at the Wing Activity Centre Here's us at 1027 (Jarrow) Squadron!🚀🚀

Sgt Armstrong is also a member of the DNW STEM Team! Congratulations on your new qual ✨️ Happy Climbing 🤙

And the new laptops makes the last of our new kit! Watch this space and get in touch to book our teams to visit your squadron 🤠

✨Bridge Building✨ Another member of our team, Sgt Will Armstrong, is a Civil Engineer and has been visiting Squadrons to run a Bridge Building activity. Here are some photos from his recent visit to 1027 (Jarrow) Squadron.

✨STEM✨ STEM is a hugely broad subject, one of the ways we can discuss STEM principles and critical thinking is through activities like bridge building. Here are pictures from a recent visit to 1248 (Prudhoe) Squadron.

✨Blue Space✨ DNW RAF Air Cadets are making sure that all cadets can work through the Blue and Bronze Courses before the release of the Silver Course and the Space BTEC! Here's Sgt Merlin Mee delivering Blue Space at 1313 (Whickham) Sqn

✨Space Crafts✨ We don't just do the Space courses, we also run sessions to get cadets interested in Space. This is a session ran by Cdt Sgt McKenna at 242 Cramlington Sqn where cadets designed their own Mars bases before presenting them to the group!🚀

✨Bronze Space Course✨ Recently, the Wing Space Team ran a Bronze Space Course which saw 19 cadets earn the qualification. Cadets took part in classroom sessions, research and presentations and even a virtual escape room. Well done all!!🚀🚀

✨More Marshmallows✨ Sometimes our visits require us to go all around the Wing, here is us at 1100 (Ashington) Squadron running a Marshmallow challenge. The objective here is to build a tall free-standing structure, but the actual goal is to apply STEM principles.

✨National Space Centre✨ In May, 45 cadets from DNW RAF Air Cadets took to National Space Centre to foster their interest in all things Space! This included many exhibitions and a show at the Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium! What a great day🚀🚀

✨️School Engagement✨️ Today, with 1151 (Wallsend) Squadron, we took part in a Theme Day delivering STEM-Based team building tasks at Educating Churchill Yes...it was with Marshmallows 😆

✨️VR Preparations✨️ Doing some testing of our new kit with some of our staff ahead of our STEM & Space stall at DNW RAF Air Cadets Competitions Day!

Meet Ollie the RC Arduino Car! 🤗 Come say hello at the STEM & Space stall on DNW RAF Air Cadets competitions day!

✨️Arduino Buzzers✨️ Tonight I took a visit to 861 (Wideopen) Sqn and delivered an Arduino session with the new DNW RAF Air Cadets STEM & Space kit! Cadets made and programmed circuits including a frequency modulator using a Potentiometer and Piezo 🙉