Rules of the Game

STEM Careers

Rules of the Game

Each player has a ‘Profile Grid’ with fact feed and questionnaire answers from your STEM employee (this is to be kept secret) and a blank ‘Profile Grid’ which other players can see.

The game is played on a Snakes and Ladders style board, using a single dice.

Your marker is a picture of your STEM employee.

There are two piles of cards to pick up on ‘fact feed’ or ‘questionnaire answers’.

When landing on the appropriate space, pick up the card stated.

Does it relate to your employee? If so place it in the relevant place in the blank Profile Grid. This gains you one point, scored by the collection of a token.

If it does not relate to your employee, you can offer the card to the employee to whom you think it belongs. If you are correct then you gain two points, scored by the collection of two tokens.

There can be two winners.

The player who completes their Profile Grid first.

The player who has the highest number of tokens.

If the player who finishes first also has the highest number of tokens, then they are The Champion.

The purpose of the activity is for the students to become familiar with the sort of people who pursue STEM careers. This is done by using the people who have been employed in areas associated with the Wii, which they will have been using in their science studies.

Name Bob O’Reilly

Job Title Director, Testing & Measurement

Fact feed / Do you have a favourite engineer of all time?
Job Role / Favourite music
How did you get started? / Favourite activities
Qualifications
Education / What sports do you play?
Who is or what are your inspirations? / Do you think sport is being changed by technology?
What’s next in your career? / What is the best sport technology invention?
Questionnaire / Do you have a favourite sports person of all time?
Tell us a little about your job / What’s the one thing you love about your job?
What excites you most about engineering? / What is the future of sports technology?
What’s the most important part of the engineering/development process? / What’s the best Wii sports game?

Name Osman Idris

Job Title Junior Engineer

Fact feed / Do you have a favourite engineer of all time?
Job Role / Favourite music
How did you get started? / Favourite activities
Qualifications
Education / What sports do you play?
Who is or what are your inspirations? / Do you think sport is being changed by technology?
What’s next in your career? / What is the best sport technology invention?
Questionnaire / Do you have a favourite sports person of all time?
Tell us a little about your job / What’s the one thing you love about your job?
What excites you most about engineering? / What is the future of sports technology?
What’s the most important part of the engineering/development process? / What’s the best Wii sports game?

Name Lee Graves

Job Title PhD Researcher

Fact feed / Do you have a favourite engineer of all time?
Job Role / Favourite music
How did you get started? / Favourite activities
Qualifications
Education / What sports do you play?
Who is or what are your inspirations? / Do you think sport is being changed by technology?
What’s next in your career? / What is the best sport technology invention?
Questionnaire / Do you have a favourite sports person of all time?
Tell us a little about your job / What’s the one thing you love about your job?
What excites you most about engineering? / What is the future of sports technology?
What’s the most important part of the engineering/development process? / What’s the best Wii sports game?

Name Harvey Weinberg

Job Title Applications Engineer

Name Gareth Stratton

Job Title Professor of Paediatric Exercise Science

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Job Title

Name Osman Idris

Job Title Junior Engineer

Fact feed
Job Role / Junior Engineer (and Pro Evolution Soccer Champion)
How did you get started? / Studied an HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Qualifications
Education / LSBU- HND & Beng (Hons) in course above
Who is or what are your inspirations? / My parents
What’s next in your career? / World domination (long shot), just try to reach the stars in whatever I do.
Questionnaire
Tell us a little about your job / Training to become a Senior Engineer/Project Manager. Job duties involve co-ordinating a project, planning to combine high quality with minimal costs.
What excites you most about engineering? / The fact that you can be a part of something that will outlive you and that millions of people can benefit from.
What’s the most important part of the engineering/development process? / Creativity and initiative
Do you have a favourite engineer of all time? / Dr Tariq Sattar: Lecturer at LSBU, a genius that inspires his students to learn and breaks things down to a crumb.
Favourite music / Nasheed
Favourite Activities / Football, pool, Pro Evolution Soccer and socialising.
What sports do you play? / The two mentioned above, enjoy swimming and jogging.
Do you think sport is being changed by technology? / Without a doubt.
What is the best sport technology invention? / Formula 1 cars - the amount of attention to detail and combination of breakthrough technology makes them a beauty to behold.
Do you have a favourite sports person of all time? / Muhammed Ali - great sportsman, extreme confidence and a will to win as well as an extraordinary gentleman.
What’s one thing you love about your job? / Keeps me on my toes and is completely unpredictable, both of which make it a good challenge.
What is the future of sports technology? / Lighter smarter garments and faster cars
What’s the best Wii sports game? / I should say Pro-Evo, but honestly We Ski - brilliant fun.

Fact Feed Cards

Junior Engineer (and Pro Evolution Soccer Champion) / Applications Engineering group leader
HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering / I designed industrial process measurement equipment then semiconductor manufacturing
HND & Beng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering / Bachelors in Electrical Engineering (Math minor)
My parents / The words “that’s impossible”.
Just try to reach the stars in whatever I do. / Putting an “X” through another “impossible” thing (can’t tell you what it is…).
Postgraduate REACH / Professor of Paediatric Exercise Science, Founder and Chair of the REACH, Chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence programme Development Group / A big promotion.
PhD at Liverpool / Studied Movement Science and Biology then qualified as a PE teacher / My parents
BSc (Hons) Sports Science (Psychology) / BHum (Hons). PGCE, MPhil.PhD. / 25 years of shock and vibration test and analysis, deep studies into dynamics and solid state physics at various Boston Universities.
My parents / To develop the best research on children’s activity and health ever / US Military as a Flight Engineer. I enjoyed engineering and focused on dynamics, shock and vibration.
To continue conducting cutting edge research in the field of paediatric exercise science as part of the REACH Group. / To design cutting edge intervention studies that increase children’s activity / Director of Testing and Measurement, Analog Devices

Questionnaire Cards

Training to become a Senior Engineer/Project Manager. / Keeps me on my toes and is completely unpredictable, both of which make it a good challenge. / Making a difference to people’s lives. / Mostly Jazz and Rock but some Blues and even the occasional Folk or Bluegrass
you can be a part of something that will outlive you and that millions of people can benefit from / Lighter smarter garments and faster cars. / When humans reach their physical peak limit, technology will solely advance performance. / Riding a bike (particularly tandem with my kids) and building stuff.
Creativity and initiative / We Ski / Doubles Wii Sports Tennis - / Cycling (and downhill skiing. I sometimes pretend to swim, run, sail and play tennis.
Dr Tariq Sattar: Lecturer at LSBU / looking into the efficacy of innovative technologies such as active video games for promoting physical activity, health and reducing sedentariness in youth. / No response / Absolutely! If I had the training tools available today when I was racing bikes as a junior, I might have been less hopeless than I was.
Nasheed / Dance and Indie / No response / Turning science towards sports has, and will continue, to expand what is possible for humans to achieve.
Football, pool, Pro Evolution Soccer and socialising. / Sports and physical activity, going to the cinema, photography. / No response / I’d like to say it’s the bike power meter. But honestly it’s probably the oversized tennis racquet and the modern ski.
Football, Pool, swimming and jogging. / Football / I mainly direct others work and help define the direction of future technical development. / I’ve admired many athletes performances, but I don’t know any of them as human beings. So it’s hard for me to make a “favourite person”
Without a doubt. / Definitely – from clothing to equipment and refereeing/umpiring, technological advances are taking sport into an era of superior performance / The constant, creative forward drive. Look around you and you’ll see that just about everything you use (roads, buildings, cars, appliances, etc) was designed and improved by engineers / Working with a bunch of really smart, creative people who surprise and challenge me with interesting things regularly.
Formula 1 cars / Besides the football, Hawkeye. / Being open to the possibility that what you are absolutely sure about may be wrong. / Increased self awareness.
Muhammed Ali / Sir Bobby Robson / Da Vinci and Newton. / Whichever one gets you off the sofa!

Questionnaire Cards

I lead an exercise science degree programme, manage a large research group / No response / Yes, MEMS sensors have helped manage sport science analysis.
No response / Hockey, Golf / HITS – head impact telemetry system.
No response / Rock, I play guitar, keys and MIDI stuff for the local Boston band ‘Cosmic Igloo’. / Bobby Orr, still the best hockey player ever.
No response / Atwood, he was the first to come up with a viable method for measuring acceleration. / No response
Pop and indie / Feasibility, many of the things we’re being asked to do have never been done before. Proving that it can be done before investing very large sums of money is most important to me. / We’re just tapping into the power of accurate measurement during sport activities. The future is so bright, I have to wear shades.
Rugby Union, basketball, athletics, and coaching / Testing mechanical sensors is quite challenging, drawing on many disciplines including mechanical, electrical, computer science and chemistry. / Tiger Woods 2008, period
I used to be a junior basketball international and played rugby to a good level / Developing production manufacturing solutions for mechanical sensors, accelerometers, gyros and microphones.
Definitely – from clothing to equipment and refereeing/umpiring, technological advances are taking sport into an era of superior performance / Boxing, unique motivating and very very funny
Games analysis software e.g. GP Sports and health promoting software e.g. Tactics by SHOKK / When humans reach their physical peak limit, technology will solely advance performance
Gareth Edwards / Making a difference to people’s lives

Name Lee Graves