Panton Fellowship- End of year post | OKF Open Science Working Group

" ... I would like to say running my school based project has been easy and that I achieved everything I set out to do but unfortunately that’s not the case. As anyone who works with schools will know, it takes a lot of time and effort on both the parts of the visitor and the teachers and sometimes getting things to be implemented as quickly as you like is not always possible. This is not a criticism of teachers by the way, I see how overworked they are and any projects like this that they get involved with only add to their work load.  So where to begin, well the aims of my project were pretty simple: [1] Install air quality sensors in primary schools. [2] Get students to collect data and work as the scientists. [3] Host data on a webpage to allow the local public to see what air quality is like in their area. [4] Increase knowledge of Open Data/ Open Science in the air quality field. I think that it is safe to say that I definitely achieved elements of each of these aims as well as getting involved in lots of other things on the way ..."