Tomorrow’s Engineers
Tomorrow’s Engineers, co-funded by EngineeringUK, Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust and the Royal Academy of Engineering, exists to help partner organisations focus their efforts so that pupils, teachers and parents can have a better understanding of engineering, including the many pathways into the profession.
In the long term, the programme is aiming to make a continuous stream of evaluated engineering enhancement and enrichment activities available.
By providing funding and communications and administrative support to partners including Primary Engineer, The Engineering Development Trust, The Industrial Trust, The Smallpeice Trust and Young Engineers, the programme aims to make evaluation central so that the enrichment and enhancement activities are an example to the wider community. It also aims to reach an extra 30,000 children.
The programme also focuses on fostering collaboration, widening school participation – particularly with schools and areas not currently targeted by programmes - and by providing support to existing, successful initiatives.
Here, Gareth James from The IET explains the idea behind the Tomorrow's Engineers programme which appeared at The Big Bang in 2010.
You can visit the Tomorrow's Engineers website here.
Schemes
Primary Engineer
To support scheme expansion
Regions
South West, South England and North East
Secondary Engineer
To support development of pilot Regions
Regions
Lancashire
Primary Engineer fulfills curriculum requirements and develops engineering awareness in teachers and pupils. Resources include teacher training, IWB content, books and competitions.
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GO4SET
To support scheme expansion
Regions
South West, North East, National
Headstart - Diversity
To support scheme expansion Regions
Regions
National
The EDT inspires young people to choose a STEM based career by providing hands-on work related learning schemes for 12-21 year olds.
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Open4All
To support scheme expansion
Regions
South West, West Midlands, and North West
The Industrial Trust brings learning to life through educational visits into industry and enterprise leading to informed career choices.
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STEM Days
To support scheme expansion
Regions
South East, South West, Yorkshire and Humber, North East
The Smallpeice Trust promotes dynamic careers in engineering to students aged 12-18 through in-school STEM days and 4-day residential courses.
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Challenges
To support KNex Primary Challenge
Regions
In collaboration with Primary Engineer
Young Engineers supports a large network of engineering clubs and runs several national engineering challenges and competitions including the Young Engineer for Britain Competition.
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In a climate of limited resources, careful targeting and evaluation will ensure that the impact of funding provided will be maximized by focusing on those schools and students not yet engaged with the engineering message (college, university, apprenticeships, and professions). Moving forward, priorities for ongoing support will be made on the basis of evaluation evidence from individual programmes that demonstrate actual and significant impact.
By fostering collaboration and co-ordination amongst partners we will ensure that the individual Enrichment & Enhancement activities are complementary and reinforce a consistent message. Underpinning these Enrichment & Enhancement activities will be robust careers information, ensuring that those engaged with leave with a better appreciation of engineering and the many paths into the profession that are available.
For further information please contact Rhys Holdaway.
