In I’m a Scientist this June 2012 we’re scheduling the event a bit differently.

In previous years we’ve run one big event in June. But this year we’re running 2 smaller events in the summer term, with the following dates:

11th – 22nd June

25th June – 6th July

The reason we’re doing this isn’t just to give ourselves more work, but to give as many UK schools as possible the chance to take part.

In previous years we’ve not had many Scottish and Northern Irish schools take part (Scotland and Northern Ireland are pretty sparse on our June 2011 participants map) because the event clashes with the earlier end of term.

And with examinations and an unusually late half term and bank holiday for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee to fit around, there’s no one fortnight that would suit everyone. So this year we’re running an earlier event and later event instead.

We’ll run around 20 zones split between the two events. We’ll ask teachers and scientists which event they’d like to take part in nearer the time. Apart from the the events will run as normal.

If you’ve any comments we’d like to hear them. If you’re a teacher will one of the dates fit in with your teaching?