2023 Year 6 Awards – Engineering Association Applauds Young Engineers
Barrow and District Association of Engineers presented bursaries and prizes to primary aged pupils at their awards ceremony. The awards evening, hosted by Furness Education & Skills Partnership (FESP) took place at Furness College and was attended by around 100 students and family members along with local employers and school leaders. Dr Michael Jeschke, of Siemens Energy. with a second keynote speech by Leah Clough, a Wind Turbine Technician at Orsted. Ashton Barnard, of Victoria Academy, showed how the school has used their £500 prize money to extend their engineering provision by purchasing Data Bloggers. She explained the multiple uses of the data bloggers to support learning across the curriculum. Presentations were made by both FESP and BDAE, showing routes into engineering and provision across the area to support the journey of students from as young as 7yrs all the way to employment. Families could learn more about routes into engineering careers.
2022 UlverSTEM - UlverSTEM is an interactive Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) event for 6-16 year olds held this year at Furness College.
2022 Year 6 Awards - Guest Speakers Jess Gorey Edwards and Steve Timms (BAE) with Russ Watson (BDAE) and some of the Prize Winners
2022 Awards - Steve Timms (BAE) and Denis Lidstone and Anne Morris (BDAE) and some of the senior Bursary Award winners
