On Thursday 6 March, the Year 7 students took part in a STEM event run by PPMA. The year group had the opportunity to find out about careers in STEM with various inspirational speakers, including James Causebrook, the managing director of Grunwald, based locally in Blankney.

Students were then given the challenge of using limited resources to create a ‘roller loader’ to keep a marble running for as long as possible. This gave them a small taste of the skills needed to be successful in engineering – problem-solving, time management, creativity, resource management, and teamwork.

The second task was to create an innovative new product in just 20 minutes. They then had to deliver a 40-second ‘elevator pitch’ to the whole year group.

All students should be proud of their efforts, and hopefully had a small taste of where a career in STEM could take them.

Thank you to Mr Norris, STEM Lead at the Robert Carre Trust, for organising the day.