I have been a science technician for nearly 16 years now. I Love what i do.I have worked my way up the ladder as a science technician and i am now a senior science techncian, i have been doing this role for 11 years in total now. I am now in the fortunate position to be able to train others in the Science education sector. I have trained both technicians and teachers in varying things from health and safety, to fun demonstrations and even helped write Risk assessments for departments and trained teachers on RA writing for practical work. I am an associate facilitator for the STEM centre and currently working on being a lead facilitator (training should be completed by the end of July this year)I won this years science technician of the year award. And was highly commended by the STEM leaning centre.I have successfully won grants for the school amounting to over £20,000. Some of these have included running an astronomy event for 100 beavers and rainbows to gain their badges, to buying equipment to loan out to primary schools in Cornwall. COVID made this hard, but, we have just stared to do this again! Another was to run a fully funded science club in school. I keep myself up to date with training, mainly at the STEM centre in York (nothing wrong with a top up of knowledge)I have successfully set up and ran 2 science technician groups that meet 3/4 times a year for free training and just to chat with other people in the same role, again, COVID has stopped this, but only for now!This year i have travelled to Spain to hold some health and safety training in an international school, i also visited 2 of their other sites and did some work with their science technicians in their prep rooms and chemical store.I have also worked with an academy trust that provides support to enable pupils to reintegrate into mainstream or special schools, again, looking at health and safety and the management of the prep room.The only thing missing on my CV is being a senior technician across an academy trust. This is my goal.Just because we work safe, doesn’t mean the fun has to be taken away!