Engineering Education Scheme
The Engineering Education Scheme encourages Year 12 students to recognise the importance of science and engineering by providing an opportunity to gain useful skills and experience by working on a challenging project in partnership with industry. The students involved are those high flyers who will be tomorrow’s leaders of industry.
The scheme provides a launch, a three-day residential university workshop and a celebration and assessment day for participating students, teachers and company representatives within Sussex.
How it works
A professional scientist or engineer from a company works with a team of up to four high-ability Year 12 students and their teacher over a period of five-six months. They work as a team on a real industrial problem for which the company needs a solution.
Students should have a proven track record at GCSE and be studying Maths AS (preferably with Science, Technology. Other subjects such as Business Studies, Economics, ICT etc are also extremely valuable and relevant). Further information including details of the role as contact teacher are available at: http://www.thescheme.org.uk
The scheme, open to all sixth forms in Sussex, has attracted national media interest and the team from Hazelwick School was featured on the BBC national news on Tuesday 11 May: Hazelwick EES Team on the BBC.
Benefits to the school/college and contact teacher:
- Individual professional development
- Improved higher education links
- Enhanced industrial links
- Raised profile of school within local community
- Facilitation of Key Skills requirements
- Specific input into Careers Department.
Benefits for students:
- Interview, teamwork and project management experience
- Training in communication and presentation skills
- Extension of AS / A2 level studies to a real life practical problem
- Meet high ability students from a variety of schools/colleges and backgrounds
- Experience of university life
- Exposure to diversity and variety of engineering, thereby raising awareness of possible career opportunities.
Curriculum links
Work-related learning: Recognise, develop and apply their skills for enterprise and employability. Engage with ideas, challenges and applications from the business world.
Promotes the following key skills:
- Application of number
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Working with others
- Improving own learning and performance
- ICT
Activity Mapping
National Curriculum
KS5 - Post 16 STEM
Work related Learning - 1,6,7,9
Other benefits to the school
ECM - 3, 4, 5
SEF - 1b, 4e, 5a, 5b, 5c, 6a
Other - Links with industry, BA CREST Award opportunity, recognition by DofE and Awarding Bodies
For more information contact STEM Sussex.
