Our weekly dose of Career Insights is here! This week we hear from Geoff Kirby, English Teacher and Head of Year at Cottenham Village College. Geoff wanted a career where every day was different, where he wouldn’t spend his time behind a desk – which he found in teaching! Form the Future is delighted
If you want to spend your time inventing things, a career in engineering might be for you! In the next instalment of our Careers Insights series with Cambridge Ahead, we hear from Elisa Barber, Electronics Engineering Consultant and TTP. Elisa dreamt of being an inventor when she was younger – and by combining her interests
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Our weekly dose of Career Insights is here! This week James Wilcox, General Manager of Huntingdon and Nottingham Racecourses describes the unique experience that working in the industry gives him, managing the success of the racecourses, contributing to events and races seen by millions of people – and how work experience was key to getting
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300 pupils at North Cambridge Academy discovered careers in aeronautical design in two fun-packed days during Cambridge LaunchPad’s recent digital pilot Years 8 and 9 have been testing the latest in combining virtual and hands-on learning as part of the college’s Experiences Week. Design Engineers from Cambridge LaunchPad Founding Partner, Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group, worked with Form the Future to create a day that took the
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Teams from Hills Road Sixth Form competed to design the best in urban regeneration During the latest Cambridge LaunchPad digital pilot, award-winning housebuilder Hill provided the ‘UrbanPlan’ workshop in a virtual format, so that all teenagers could take part while being covid-safe. Four teams from across all A-level subjects came together at Hills Road Sixth
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We’re excited to announce the launch of our free online short course, designed to help people get ready for work. At a time when many face job uncertainty, Form the Future’s Ready for Work course aims to support those looking to improve their work readiness skills and find the job that’s right for them. The
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Cambridge LaunchPad has celebrated another year of STEM success with virtual celebrations for students and partners. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, there was much to celebrate – in 2019/20 Cambridge LaunchPad worked with 35 partners, saw 5200 students, and was able to host 88 events before many students moved to home-based learning. The virtual STEM celebrations
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The latest video in our Careers Q+A series is here, featuring Sharon Livermore, Director of Kameo Recruitment. Sharon discusses her career path into recruitment, and what it’s like to work in the sector today. In each video in our Careers Q+A series, we’ll hear from our volunteers, partners, team members and wider community, who will
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Year 5 students from Fulbourn Primary School joined TWI to become defect detectives for the day As part of a Cambridge LaunchPad project day, the students were split into small teams and challenged to programme a Lego Mindstorms robot to detect defects along a weld line. Together with volunteer ambassadors, many of them in the
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Year 7 students joined the Wellcome Genome Campus to explore the role of DNA On 27th November, 24 students from Bassingbourn Village College, Cambridgeshire Home Educated Families, Linton Village College and Sawston Village College took part in a Cambridge LaunchPad project day with the Wellcome Genome Campus focused on DNA. Ahead of the project day,
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