Helping students to learn about tech careers and meet local businesses
During National Careers Week (3-7 March) a group of Year 10 students from Bideford College and Atlantic Academy will be participating in a week of work experience at the Big Sheep, with the aim of increasing interest in tech careers.There will be between 20 and 30 students involved.We’ve called it the ‘Remote Disaster Network’ – it’s based on communication systems failing in a remote town in Ecuador. The mission for the young people will be to build a communication device to enable messaging and overcome the disaster.
They will need to:
- design a tech product from the ground up
- order components to a budget & deadline
- build and purpose the tech product for the end user
- ship the finished article out to the disaster hit area
We’re looking for local businesses to drop in throughout the week and lend a hand to teams working on this project. It could be design advice/budgets/tech knowledge or just to say hello and take an interest in what they are doing.
We’d love these young people to meet local businesses and learn more about them in the hope that it will encourage them to take an interest in tech-based careers. You don’t have to be there all week; you can drop in whenever suits.
If this is something you think you/others can help with, please let [email protected] know. Your details will then be passed to the organisers.
Alternatively, please contact [email protected] or Robert Wiltshire ([email protected]).
