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Local schools take part in First Edition days
A First Edition day was held at the University of Surrey on the 9th December and at Cheltenham Ladies College on the 10th December where over 130 pupils took part. Local schools were invited to enter teams of students to participate in a hands on activity day where they were given the opportunity to put STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) into practice by designing, building and testing model structures.
Cheltenham Ladies College Physics teacher Ro Kaye who helped arrange ... more
Headstart Alumni - Developing Skills for University & Beyond
An exciting new collaboration this year between the Royal Academy of Engineering and Headstart resulted in a specially devised course for young women who attended Headstart last year.
14 ex-Headstarters were invited to RAEng to spend 3 days with 3 very ... more
Top National Award for Engineering Education Scheme Teacher
Congratulations to Peter Buckley, an EDT teacher who has won the 2009 Stephenson Award. Peter has been a Mathematics teacher at Watford Grammar School for 20 years and is also the Business Links Coordinator for the school. Peter has been involved with the Engineering Education Scheme (EES) for 8 years and has been responsible for over 60 students participating in the EES, many of whom are now studying engineering or have taken up a career in this field.
The Stephenson Award facilitated by the Institute of Mechanical Engi ... more
Go4SET enters the curriculum
Now in it's fourth year Go4SET continues to demonstrate its flexibility and effectiveness across all of the Key Stage 3 age group (11-14 years). During the summer term of 2009 Trinity Catholic High School in Woodford Green participated in a pilot variant of the EDT’s scheme Go4SET. The Trinity pilot involved a Year 7 Science class, the project taking place in Science lessons over a 9 week period.
The school hosted the Scheme Launch and Celebration and Assessment D ... more
EDT launches an expanded Widening Participation portfolio, starting with First Edition
Headstart at the EDT has been developing a number of specialised diversity modules linked to its courses during the last five years, to a position where around 1000 additional students aged 13 to 15 took part in Insight, Dragonfly, Spectrum or First Edition during 2009.
The Trust is now expanding First Edition as a stand-alone scheme and ... more
YINI Contribution to the Business Awards National Winners announced
This prestigious YINI national annual event, hosted by BT, took place on 15th September at the BT Auditorium, London. The event was sponsored by BT, Centrica, dstl, EEF, IET and QinetiQ and it marks the conclusion of another year of YINI work placements for students soon to embark on their university studies or currently on a sandwich year.
The event showcased the impressive work the 9 talented regional fina ... more
Science and engineering pioneers awarded for illuminating the way for next generation
EDT's Peter Tattersall received recognition for his dedication to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) as an Ambassador at the House of Lords.
A collection of British men and women working in science and enginee ... more
Engineering Education Scheme and NG Bailey win Yorkshire Forward ‘Creating Better Futures’ Award
The prestigious awards highlight the successful partnerships between private sector and voluntary, community and faith organisations. They aim to demonstrate true partnership working and encourage the sharing and development of skills, knowledge and best practice within the community for its economic development. Each of the winning charities received a prize of £10,000 to invest in their cause.
NG Bailey, a large mechanical and electrical design company, entered ... more
The Year in Industry Contribution to the Business Awards 2009 - South East Regional Final Coming Soon
The Contribution to the Business (CTTB) Awards is a great opportunity for our students to record and celebrate what they have achieved in their gap-year with The Year in Industry (YINI).
The CTTB Awards offers the chance to win big prizes and gain a prest ... more
Go4SET: Celebrating pupils success in the East Midlands
On the 13th of March, eleven schools from around the East Midlands gathered at Nottingham Trent University's Centre for Effective Learning in Science to showcase their Go4SET projects. Over the last ten weeks teams of 6 students from each school had been working with a local industry mentor to come up with ways of saving energy at their school.
The teams developed a variety of innovative solutions in their Go4SE ... more
EDT participants scoop 3 awards at the Big Bang
The Big Bang, the first annual UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair was held in London on 4th – 6th March 2009 and 3 of the awards presented at the prestigious ceremony went to EDT participants.
Chris Jefferies, an Engineering Education Scheme (England) team memb ... more
An opportunity for 16-19 year olds – Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust Engineering Experience
Are you 16-19 years old? Have you an interest in Engineering or Technology? Are you in full time UK education? Then this is an opportunity you cannot miss!
The Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust and Young Engineers are looki ... more
EDT at the Big Bang Fair 2009
The Big Bang is the UK’s first national fair celebrating young people’s achievements in science and engineering. It will take place from the 4th to 6th March 2009, just prior to National Science and Engineering Week, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London.
EDT have teamed up with Imagineering to run a hands-on hydraulics workshop at the fair. ... more
Go4SET successfully launches in the West Midlands in 2009
150 pupils from across the Birmingham area began the 10-week Go4SET challenge on Tuesday 13th January at the RAF Cosford Museum.
The Go4SET project was announced at the launch event and teams of si ... more
Students return to GKN
Denis Evans MBE is a Regional Co-ordinator for EDT and tells us about how students taking part in The Year in Industry have returned to GKN following their placements.
GKN are sponsors of EDT and have been involved with The Year in Indu ... more
High-profile partnership inspirational for young engineers
A team from the Engineering Education Scheme (England) helped Lotus Engineering and Wymondham College win Best Industry/Education Link Award at the EDP Business Awards 2007.
Plenty of clever thinking and practical legwork was needed when the ... more
Engineering Education Scheme (England) student, Alex Smith Wins $25,000 Wolfram Research Prize
Wolfram Research and Stephen Wolfram announced in October that 20-year-old Alex Smith, a student from the University of Birmingham, had won the US $25,000 Wolfram 2,3 Turing Machine Research Prize.
In his 2002 book A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram hyp ... more
The IET support for the EDT
The IET continue to support the EDT. Sally Davidson Jones, the Student Community Manager comments, “The IET are delighted to be associated with the EESE Scheme. These students are our future and in addition to sponsoring the scheme, we support the students by giving all scheme participants two years' IET student membership worth £24.” When applying to university, we hope that many students will take advantage of the many Scholarships and awards on offer from the IET to help them out with the financial strain of university. Details of these awards and scholarships can be found at www.theiet.org/ambition
There are various engineering, manufacturing and IT undergraduate sc ... more
Headstart student clinches an engineering scholarship hat-trick
A Headstart student hit the jackpot not once, not twice but three times in her efforts to get financial support during university.
Alex Mitchell’s road to success began in the summer of 2006 wh ... more
Go4SET and BP
As Go4SET rolls out across the UK this year over 800 pupils are currently taking part. BP are lead sponsor of the project and are mentoring 17 teams of 6 pupils across several UK locations.
BP is the lead sponsor of the scheme, supporting the development of ... more
A YINI student’s quiz team wins £75,000 on top BBC TV quiz
Craig Rouse from Northampton, who spent his Year in Industry at Rolls Royce in Derby, joined forces with fellow students at Oxford Brookes University to take on professional quizzers on the BBC2 quiz show Eggheads.
The team of 5 students, known as Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow, ... more