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Ambassadors

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Discover Materials Ambassadors are enthusiastic volunteers who want to excite people about Materials Science and Engineering.

We have resources to help ambassadors deliver outreach sessions and if you are interested in the ambassador scheme then please contact us.

Resources

Activities, findings and more!

Discover Materials Busking Box

Our Discover Materials busking boxes are large toolboxes on wheels that can be easily moved around to events and contain…

Chocolate Impact Tester

Our chocolate impact tester  is a compact, easily portable pendulum-type impact tester that we use at outreach events for comparing…

Let’s Move to the Moon (Ambassador Resources)

Welcome to the ‘Let’s Move to the Moon’ page for volunteers. Here you can find cover letters to send to…

Materials Science Podcasts

Browse a list of Materials Science and Engineering Podcasts on the Discover Materials Website and learn more about what makes MSE so great.

Discover Materials Articles in Materials World

Want to learn more about the background and aims of Discover Materials, then find links to our trilogy of article…

Bauble breaking – stamping

What happened if you accidentally stood on festive baubles around the home? Would they break or survive? As part of…

Bauble breaking – freefall

How do different materials break? As part of Discover Materials this Winter we had a look at how baubles made…

Bauble breaking – drop weight tester

You can tell a lot about how materials behave by breaking them. As part of Discover Materials this Winter we…

Outreach Funding

Below are a list of links to sources of funding for Outreach activities relevant to Materials Science and Engineering. Please…
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Events

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27 Jun - 27 Jun

SciFest 2025

We will be retuning to the University of Wolverhampton to take part in SciFest 2025. We will run the Discover…
05 Jun - 05 Jun

Cheltenham Science Festival 2025

Sign up for our workshop at the Cheltenham Science Festival 2025 and take part in our Mysterious Materials workshop. This…
17 Jun - 19 Jun

Big Bang 2025

Join us at Big Bang 2025 to discover the wonderful world of materials science and engineering and the exciting careers…

News

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Discover Materials Ambassadors at the Festival of Tomorrow

We returned to the Festival of Tomorrow, Swindon on the 21st and 22nd of February, 2025 and, over two engaging…

Discover Materials Ambassador Conference 2024

For our third Discover Materials Ambassador conference we headed to Imperial College London. The Discover Materials Ambassador (DMA) conference is…

Discover Materials newsletter (Autumn 2024)

To celebrate the new school year the new Discover Materials Newsletter (issue 3) is now available. It includes: Materials Science…

Big Bang 2024 – Geckos and beyond!

Over three days in June 48 volunteers from across the Discover Materials Community (from metallurgy professors to 1st year undergraduates)…

Congratulations Lizzie

Lizzie Driscoll, one of our Discover Materials Ambassadors, has been awarded the prestigious IOM3 Robert Perrin Award for her outstanding…

Discover Materials Newsletter – the first edition!

We are delighted to announce our first Discover Materials newsletter. Our newsletters will flag up some of our resources for…

DM Ambassador Research – Tess Knowles

Tess Knowles researches nano-ceramic composite coatings and light alloys for the automotive and aerospace applications. Let’s find out more…… What…

Discover Materials Ambassador Conference

On 14th/15th September 2022, the first in-person Discover Materials Ambassador conference was held at the Henry Royce Institute Hub Building….

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