This is Engineering: Entertainment

The ‘This is engineering: entertainment’ STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) resource explores the essential role that engineers play in the entertainment industry.

Engineering is at the cutting edge: from machine learning, artificial intelligence and gaming, to advanced sports equipment, CGI, designing hi-tech sets and materials and music production.

Through a series of creative and collaborative challenges, students will develop enquiring minds and teamwork skills and are encouraged to find imaginative approaches to problem-solving, understanding the role STEM-based learning plays in real-world engineering scenarios.

Each of the activities and challenges have links across science, maths and design technology. Some activities will be more heavily weighted towards one subject more than others.

Don’t worry! Experience, or subject knowledge around engineering or any STEM subject is not required. The resource is designed to allow students to learn independently and at their own pace, with your support as a facilitator not a subject expert.

This is Engineering: Entertainment asks young learners to express and share their thoughts and ideas, to be curious, experiment, find their own passions and interests, and to understand, change and make a difference in the world around them.

Activities and challenges range from tracking sporting data, exploring the fourth dimension and creating light displays, to investigating synthetic beats and producing a scene from a horror film.