Year 12 students from Comberton Sixth Form and Hills Road Sixth Form College joined together with the Wellcome Genome Campus to learn more about how genomics is being used the health sector to better understand the challenges faced with disease and the human genome. The Cambridge LaunchPad programme aims to inspire young people to think […]
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On the 19th of March, new Cambridge LaunchPad supporter Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd. welcomed 40 Year Six students from Fulbourn Primary School to the Cambridge offices to gain more experience in STEM subjects and learn about the roles available to them in the technology sector. By providing students with a platform to meet inspirational role models
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On Thursday 14th March, Cambridge Consultants welcomed 40 Year 4 students from Cambridge Home Educating Families and Teversham C of E Primary School to take part in an exciting hands-on activity day at their office in Cambridge. Cambridge Consultants develops world-changing products and services for client companies, with more than 800 staff, offices around the world
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On the 8th March as part of National Careers Week, Cambridge Regional College welcomed 50 Y5 students from Abbey Meadows Primary School to take part in a day of hands-on activities inspiring them to think about the career possibilities available to them after they leave school. Student and teacher ambassadors led the year 5s through an
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On the 7thMarch, Amey Waste Management invited 25 Year 5 students from Cherry Hinton Primary School to learn more about what happens to their recycling and rubbish after they put it in the bin. Throwing away waste and recycling is something that these students do every day, however many of them had never thought about
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On the 27th February the A14 Integrated Delivery Team (IDT) invited 25 Year 6 students from Fen Ditton Community Primary School to join them at their main project office at Swavesey. Students were encouraged to learn more about the variety of roles available in the construction industry and how these all had a place in the
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Over three days in February, Cambridge LaunchPad founding partner Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group welcomed 400 Year 4 students to their headquarters for a day of engineering activities. Students from eight primary schools – Abbey Meadows, Bar Hill, Cherry Hinton, Fen Ditton, Fulbourn, Kings Hedges, Linton Heights and St Faith’s School – joined together to learn
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On the 1st February TWI welcomed 40 Year 5 students from Fulbourn Primary School onsite to become defect detectives for the day and learn more about some of the skills needed in engineering. Upon arrival students were split into small teams and each challenged to programme a Lego Mindstorms robot to detect defects along a weld
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On the 23rd and 24th of January new Cambridge LaunchPad associate partner, the Institute of Astronomy, welcomed Y6 students from Cherry Hinton C of E Primary School and Cambridge Home Educated Families to take part in practical activities to learn more about astronomy. Students were greeted at the Madingley Observatory by Dr Matthew Bothwell who led the
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Over two days in January, Year 5 students from Teversham CofE VA and Fen Ditton Primary School were invited to get hands-on with STEM at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering and discover robotics and electronic engineering. The events aimed to introduce STEM subjects in a new light and allow the students to develop new practical
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