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Schemes for Secondary School Students
The generous financial
support of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
in developing and establishing the
Best
Programme is gratefully acknowledged.
As part of its Best
Programme, the Academy promotes a number of
schemes at pre-university level that
encourage young people to consider
professional engineering as a career:
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Young Engineers (Best)
7-19 Yrs
A national network
of over 1600 science, engineering,
electronics and technology clubs in
schools and colleges throughout the UK.
The extra curricular clubs provide a
unique resource that allows students
from the age of 7 up to 19, to tap into
a learning environment that will help
create tomorrow's engineers.
For further
information visit the Young Engineers
website at
www.youngeng.org
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The Smallpeice Trust Engineering
Courses (Best) 13-18 Yrs
The Trust's courses enable
young people to work with experienced
professional engineers either on residential
courses at universities or in STEM enrichment
activities arranged in schools. These courses
provide age-appropriate training over a wide range
of engineering topics. Students leave with both technical
and management skills. A strong interface with
industry, education and professional bodies
helps to ensure that the courses are properly
supported, promoted and developed. the Trust
continues to build on these relationships to
widen the scope of opportunity available to
young people and to strengthen its reputation
for developing and delivering courses to a high
standard.
For further information
visit the The Smallpeice Trust website at
www.smallpeicetrust.org.uk/home-courses.php
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The Engineering
Education Scheme (Best) 16-17 Yrs
The scheme enables
Year 12 students studying relevant
subjects to solve real industrial
problems for real companies. A
professional engineer from the company
liaises with and advises the teams of
students and their teachers in solving
the problem and producing a report and
presentation. Universities support the
scheme and provide residential workshops
during the course of the projects.
For further
information visit the
websites at:
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Headstart (Best) 16-17 Yrs
This scheme
enables Year 12 students to spend a week
at a university engineering department,
getting a taste of life as an
engineering undergraduate and learning
about potential careers and
undergraduate courses in engineering.
For further
information visit the Headstart
website at
www.headstartcourses.org.uk
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The Year in
Industry (Best) 18-19 Yrs
High-calibre
students are selected to gain
pre-university experience of industry
backed by comprehensive ‘off the job’
training during a gap year.
For further
information visit the Year in Industry
website at
www.yini.org.uk
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