On the 7thDecember, Cambridge LaunchPad partners Cambridge Cleantech and Cambridge Regional College teamed up to deliver an event with Year 6 students from Bar Hill Community Primary School. The aim of the day was to educate the students about how clean technology is currently being used and enthuse them about the possibilities available within the […]
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Year 6 students from The Spinney School and Teversham Primary School joined up with Mott MacDonald to learn more about the engineering industry and start thinking about some of the roles available to them within STEM. Over the course of the day, students took part in several activities inspired by the work carried out on a
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Year 10 Cambridge LaunchPad Innovator students from Coleridge Community College, North Cambridge Academy and the Stephen Perse Foundation were invited by Amazon to take part in a day of practical activities. By giving students an insight into working for one of the leading technology businesses, Cambridge LaunchPad aims to encourage them to think about the
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This year’s Cambridge LaunchPad Innovators programme started with a bang when Year 10 students from Bottisham Village College, Netherhall School and Swavesey Village College joined together at Horizon Discovery to solve a murder. Students were welcomed onto the Cambridge Research Park, where they participated in several interactive activities and learned about some of the career and education pathways
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Cambridge LaunchPad partner, Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, invited 50 Year 4 students for a day of construction activities to open their eyes to the wide range of career possibilities in the industry. Students from Icknield Primary Schooland Stapleford Community Primary Schooljoined together at Sawston Village Collegeto inspire their students through hands-on learning. Helen Clements,
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The 2017-18 academic year saw Cambridge LaunchPad reach over 6,300 students between the ages of 8–17 years old. During the project days, students are encouraged to develop their core skills, qualities that they will use throughout their lives such as teamwork, communication and problem solving. As the programme rewards these achievements through experiences, the winning
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During the summer, First Landing Education ran the 2018 Future Engineer Youth STEM Maker Challenge UK, a 3-day competition with students from China and the UK. Form the Future spread the word to our network of schools about this exciting opportunity and supported the three British teams throughout the training and challenges. One of our teams represented Comberton
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