Cambridge Launchpad

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Take a look at our recent Project Day with founding partner TTP plc who welcomed Year 12 students from Comberton Sixth Form Hills Road Sixth Form College and Long Road Sixth Form College to join ambassadors and learn more about what it takes to be a #technology consultant! #LaunchintoSTEM #FormingCareers #STEM #Education

It’s a sink or sprint moment here at Schlumberger where students from Kings Hedges Educational Federation are learning about the properties of fluids with the ooblek challenge! They have taken part in tasks to explore more about #robotics, #geophysics and #fluidviscosity.
#LaunchintoSTEM #FormingCareers #STEM #STEMEducation

Today we have been at Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group where Year 9 students from Cambridge Home Educated Families, Coleridge Community College and North Cambridge Academy have been designing and testing rockets to protect a poppadom. Do you think this one survived?
#LaunchintoSTEM #Engineering #FormingCareers #STEM #Education

This year's Opportunities Ahead event is taking place on Wednesday 16 October at Quy Mill Hotel & Spa, Cambridge. The team at Form the Future are now accepting registrations from businesses interested in exhibiting at one of the region's largest careers fairs.
This is a great opportunity for #STEM organisations to inspire their next generation of employees and advertise apprenticeship, work experience and internship opportunities.
More info and to register: https://bit.ly/2UQMZOp

Our industry partner Wellcome Sanger Institute are delighted to invite 16-18 year olds to take part in Lab Work Experience Week (29 July-2 August).
This exclusive opportunity with the Malaria Team would be perfect for students looking to gain an insight into lab and computational work, or the world of genetics and genomics.
There are only 10 spaces available, so make sure you get your application in before the deadline of Friday 17 May!
... More info: https://bit.ly/2UvaaxM
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We are really excited to be back at TTP plc where Y12 students from Comberton Sixth Form ,Hills Road Sixth Form College and Long Road Sixth Form College are designing innovative prototypes for surgical syringes! #LaunchintonSTEM #FormingCareers

Thank you to Qualcomm for hosting us and Year 6 students from Fulbourn Primary School this week! As a new industry partner, it was fantastic to see how enthusiastic your team were to introduce the children to technology and engineering. #LaunchintoSTEM

Happy International Women's Day! We're delighted to work with so many incredible female STEM leaders, who inspire the next generation of young women.
But the issues with lack of representation in STEM goes beyond gender - STEM careers should be open to all!
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We are having a great project day on site with the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon ambassadors and Y6 students from Fen Ditton Primary School. Students have taken part in hands-on activities such as this environmental challenge, to learn more about he variety of roles that are available in the construction industry. Want to see how you could get involved? Pleas visit www.Cambridge-LaunchPad.com to find out more.
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Fen Ditton Primary School PTFA

We’re back at Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group for our second Project Day of the week. Will the Y4 students from Fulbourn Primary School and St Faith's School beat the parachute record set yesterday by Abbey Meadows Primary and Kingshedges Primary School ?
#LaunchintoSTEM #Engineering #Education #Volunteering
Abbey Meadows PTFA News

Could you help to inspire the next generation of #engineers? Cambridge LaunchPad are looking for volunteers to join us for this years stars festival at Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group on the 6th, 7th and 8th February. Full briefing will be given to everyone so no prior experience is necessary, just join us to encourage our young people to think more about the possibilities available to them, and have some fun!
Contact us at cambridge-launchpad@formthefuture.or g.uk for information on how to get involved.
#LaunchintoSTEM #Volunteering #STEMeducation

Another fantastic day at Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge! Thank you for letting us bring in Year 5 students from Fen Ditton Primary School and teaching them how to code Lego Mindstorm robots - look at them go! #LaunchintoSTEM

Could you help to connect young people to the world of career possibilities around them? Form the Future have launched their Christmas fundraising appeal! Careers Inspiration for Every Child will help them to guide even more students to the skilled jobs of the future. You can help by donating on https://goto.gg/37081 and helping to spread the word to your network.

Today we have been at Cambridge Regional College with Cambridge Cleantech, where together with the GreenSoul Project, we have been learning about clean technology. Year 6 students from Bar Hill School have built energy efficient homes, constructed towers from spaghetti and marshmallows, and fired rockets made of recycled materials! Find out more about our project days by visiting www.Cambridge-LaunchPad.com #LaunchintoSTEM #Cleantech #WEARECRC The Kite Teaching School Alliance, Cambridge

We’ve had a fab day at Mott MacDonald, thank you to all of our volunteers. Everyone was so impressed with the student’s final ‘chocrete’ beams, this one managed to hold 8kg!! The Kite Teaching School Alliance, Cambridge Teversham C of E Primary School