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The Big Bang Fair: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair

The Big Bang Fair: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair . Manchester 11 th , 12 th & 13 th March 2010 R. Price, C. Nixon & R. Jacob. How It Happened The Fair The Program Our Views and What Was Gained Questions. How it all came about….

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The Big Bang Fair: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair

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  1. The Big Bang Fair:UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair Manchester 11th, 12th & 13th March 2010 R. Price, C. Nixon & R. Jacob

  2. How It Happened The Fair The Program Our Views and What Was Gained Questions

  3. How it all came about…

  4. Careers and Academic Liaisons Committee (CALC)(previously Public Affairs Subcommittee) Objectives • To promote careers as statisticians and programmers within the pharmaceutical industry, through school and university activities and establishing links with relevant professional groups. • To maximise the amount of information made available to individuals interested in careers as either statisticians or statistical programmers within the industry.

  5. How It Happened The Fair The Program Our Views and What Was Gained Questions

  6. STEM SubjectsStrategically Important & Vulnerable subjects Science Technology Engineering Mathematics

  7. STEM SubjectsScience • AstraZeneca • NHS Healthcare • Microbiology Society • Plants That Bite Back (Manchester University) • The Hospital Ward of the Future • The Football League

  8. STEM SubjectsTechnology • Siemens • IBM • Intel • Google

  9. STEM SubjectsEngineering • Rolls Royce • Shell • Sellafield • National Grid • EDF Energy • Eon

  10. STEM SubjectsMathematics • Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI) • The Royal Meteorological Society

  11. Top Career Choice for Teenage GirlsGirls aged 13-18 Poll of 506 girls Carried out by NOISE – New Outlooks In Science & Engineering

  12. Highlights

  13. ‘Brainiac’ and ‘Bang Goes The Theory’

  14. At Our Stand … • 2 Laptops • Plasma Screen TV • Freebies • Leaflets • Statisticians

  15. How It Happened The Fair The Program Our Views and What Was Gained Questions

  16. The Purpose of the Program • Helped explain to the students what a drug trial is. • Added to the fun factor of the Science fair. • Aimed to get children interested in the pharmaceutical industry. • Gave a visual example of how statistics is used in the industry.

  17. The Program

  18. The ProgramThe Blue Pill • The program is a sample sizing exercise for a clinical trial with a pain drug. • Superiority study of active treatment against a placebo treatment. • Only end point is a difference between active and placebo on an 11 point pain scale. • The students had to decide the best value for the 3 parameters: • N • Cut off point • Probability

  19. The ProgramThe Red Pill • Once they are happy with their 3 parameters they entered the values into the clinical trial simulation. • This screen was put up onto the plasma screen. • They would find out here how successful their study had been in the clinical trial.

  20. How It Happened The Fair The Program Our Views and What Was Gained Questions

  21. Our Views and What Was GainedPositives The Program+Successfully got students interested in the pharmaceutical industry. The Fair+ The fair attracted people of all ages • Primary School pupils • GCSE / A Level students • University Students • Teachers • Parents +Spoke to members of the public about our experience at Roche PSI+It was highly valuable for PSI to have presence at such a big national event+We had the opportunity to meet other statisticians within the industry

  22. Our Views and What Was GainedSuggestions for improvement The Program -The program was great for the older students but was a bit too advanced for the younger children. +We couldreview the program and simplify it where possible Panel discussion - 3 of the 6 representatives on the panel were Engineers. -Limited discussion about careers in Maths, no mention of Statistics. + Potential for a statistician to sit on the panel for future events

  23. Acknowledgements

  24. Questions?

  25. We Innovate Healthcare

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