ASE 2026 Technicians Summer Conference

This session will encompass the following - I hope you will all enjoy it!

• Greener Reactions and the Road to Net Zero (We’ve got this!)
• A fun quiz on what we know about Carbon Footprints in schools
• A hands-on activity: Polystyrene is so last century!
• Rethinking our approach to science – positively.

This workshop explores how science technicians can lead meaningful science outreach with primary schools and community groups.

How to design and deliver sessions for younger audiences, covering what works, what doesn't, and how to make science accessible and exciting beyond the school lab.

The session includes hands-on demonstration activities that attendees are welcome to adapt for their own outreach work.

Come along and have a go and making some simple glass items to gain confidence when heating and bending glass. You can keep everything you make, options will include delivery tubes, stirring rods, glass spreaders and U bend tubes amongst others.  If you have a glass cutter in your department – bring it with you!

This workshop is gratefully supported by the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers. The ASE is most appreciative of the charity's support without which school science technicians would be unable to receive the valuable professional learning relating to working with glass in their science laboratories.

Owing to the popularity of the glassmaking session, there is one in the morning and another is repeated this afternoon, to accommodate as many delegates as possible.

Whether a lone technician, part of a team or leading a team, a technician will need the support of other colleagues to make life easier and accomplish tasks.

In this workshop participants will look at the teams they may be part of, even as a lone technician, and explore methods of communication and relationship-building in order to establish a strong team or support network. The session will cover recognising the diversity of team members, how to approach those difficult conversations and strategies for getting things done.

A hands-on session that will showcase fun and engaging experiments which have been tried and tested at science clubs in schools. Delegates will also have the opportunity to discuss the logistics of running a science club, including possible funding routes.

Come along and have a go and making some simple glass items to gain confidence when heating and bending glass. You can keep everything you make, options will include delivery tubes, stirring rods, glass spreaders and U bend tubes amongst others.  If you have a glass cutter in your department – bring it with you!

This is a repeat of the glass working session offered this morning - owing to its' popularity, we are repeating it to accommodate as many delegates as possible.