Diamond the Board Game - engaging students in the science of Diamond Light Source and the process of being a scientist

公众参与的成本不断上升，意味着在全国范围内开展包容性活动变得更加困难。这是在教师压力不断上升和STEM技能大规模短缺的情况下进行的。为了解决这一问题，我们开发和发行了“钻石棋盘游戏”(“DTBG”)，旨在提供一种廉价、可重复使用和娱乐性的方式，让学生直接参与STEM职业生涯和基础科学实验(所有这些都突出了钻石开展的尖端科学)。DTBG目前处于最后的原型阶段，准备进行更大规模和更具成本效益的生产。这笔赠款的目的是批量生产1000份这款游戏，然后可以主要分发给与奇迹计划结盟的学校。因此，我们的目标是优先为学校提供高比例的免费校餐，并会按个别情况收取邮费，因为我们会考虑那些负担不起邮资的学校所提出的邮费要求。在比赛期间引入的12个不同的职业和36个跨学科科学项目直接与盖茨比基金会建议下的强制性职业指导条款联系在一起，这些条款已被政府采纳，并特别符合良好职业指导的基准1、2和4。因此，我们希望透过“直接资助计划”，支持学校达致其必修课程的目标，这对很多目前正竭力达致目标的学校来说，将会是有利的。戴蒙德也有好处，因为从小培养对STEM的兴趣可能是在以后几年招募的机会。

Rising costs of public engagement mean that it is harder to deliver activities inclusively across the country. This is set against rising pressure on teachers and a massive STEM skills shortage. We seek to address this through the development and distribution of 'Diamond the Board Game' ('DTBG'), which aims to provide a cheap, reusable and entertaining way to directly engage students in STEM careers and the underpinning scientific experiments (all of which highlight the cutting-edge science carried out at Diamond). DTBG is currently at the final prototype stage, and ready for larger scale and more cost effective production. The aim of this grant is to bulk manufacture 1000 copies of the game, which can then be distributed primarily to the schools aligned to the Wonder Initiative. We therefore aim to prioritise schools with a high proportion of free school meals, and will also charge for postage on a case by case basis as we will consider requests for postage costs from those schools who cannot afford postage. The introduction of 12 distinct careers and 36 interdisciplinary scientific projects during the game directly links to the mandatory careers guidance provision under the Gatsby Foundation recommendations that have been adopted by the government and specifically complies with benchmarks 1,2 and 4 for good career guidance. We therefore want to support schools to achieve their mandatory provision goals through the use of DTBG, which would be beneficial to many schools who are currently struggling to hit their targets for this. There are also benefits to Diamond as nurturing interests in STEM from an early age could be an opportunity for recruitment in later years.