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Airbus is proud to support schools and students in the local community and runs a number of initiatives to help promote STEM subjects. We partner with organisations dedicated to STEM development including: • Engineering Development Trust (EDT) • The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) • The Engineering Education Scheme Wales • Women into Science and Engineering (WISE) • F1 in Schools • FIRST® LEGO® League • Flying Start Challenge • Ablaze Bristol • Industrial Cadets
Enclosed is a selection of what we can offer, along with contact information if you would like further information.
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Contents
All Ages pg 04-05 People Like Me Career Development 11-16 years old WISE
Careers Events/Fairs Workshop All Ages Airbus Plank Challenge Workshop 12+ years old Airbus School Presentations About Airbus All Ages Airbus Routes to STEM Course 13-15 years old EDT STEM Family Challenge Workshop All Ages EDT Site Visit About Airbus 14+ years old Airbus Sphero Chariot Race Workshop 10-16 years old Airbus KS1 pg 06-08 Stargazer Workshop 11-19 years old Airbus Airbus Fleet Challenges Workshop 5-11 years old Airbus Wing Bend (Filton only) Workshop 10-18 years old Airbus Airbus Happy Families (Filton only) Workshop 5-14 years old Airbus KS4 pg 27-33 FIRST® LEGO® League Jr: Mission Moon Workshop 6-9 years old IET Interactive STEM Day Activity Day 5-14 years old Airbus Aircraft Parts (Filton only) Workshop 11-19 years old Airbus MICRO FIRST® LEGO® League Jr: Mission Moon Workshop 6-9 years old IET Cabin Design Workshop 11-16 years old Airbus Paper Planes Workshop Workshop 6-11 years old Airbus Career Presentations Workshop All Ages EDT Reading Buddies & Number Partners Personal Development 5-11 years old Airbus F1 in Schools Competition 9-19 years old Formula 1 FIRST® LEGO® League: Into Orbit Competition 9-16 years old IET KS2 pg 09-14 Flying Start Challenge Competition 11-16 years old Flying Start Challenge Airbus Fleet Challenges Workshop 5-11 years old Airbus Go4Set Competition 12-14 years old EDT Airbus Happy Families (Filton only) Workshop 5-14 years old Airbus Mock Interviews Career Development 14+ years old Airbus Aircraft Parts (Filton only) Workshop 11-19 years old Airbus People Like Me Career Development 11-16 years old WISE First Edition Workshop 9-16 years old EDT Plank Challenge Workshop 12+ years old Airbus ® ® FIRST LEGO League Jr: Mission Moon Workshop 6-9 years old IET Site Visit About Airbus 14+ years old Airbus Helipad (Broughton only) Workshop 9-16 years old Airbus Stargazer Workshop 11-19 years old Airbus Interactive STEM Day Activity Day 5-14 years old Airbus Wing Bend (Filton only) Workshop 10-18 years old Airbus MICRO FIRST® LEGO® League Jr: Mission Moon Workshop 6-9 years old IET Moon Ladder Challenge Workshop 10-13 years old Airbus Post-16 pg 34-38 Runway Mayhem Workshop 8+ years old Airbus Aircraft Parts (Filton only) Workshop 11-19 years old Airbus Sphero Chariot Race Workshop 10-16 years old Airbus Career Presentations Career Development 14+ years old Airbus Wing Bend (Filton only) Workshop 10-18 years old Airbus F1 in Schools Competition 9-19 years old Formula 1 FIRST® LEGO® League: Into Orbit Competition 9-16 years old IET KS3 pg 15-26 Mock Interviews Career Development 14+ years old Airbus Airbus Little Engineers Workshop 11-15 years old Airbus People Like Me Career Development 11-16 years old WISE Aircraft Parts (Filton only) Workshop 11-19 years old Airbus Plank Challenge Workshop 12+ years old Airbus Cabin Design Workshop 11-16 years old Airbus Site Visit About Airbus 14+ years old Airbus Career Presentations Career Development 14+ years old Airbus Stargazer Workshop 11-19 years old Airbus F1 in Schools Competition 11-19 years old Formula 1 Wing Bend (Filton only) Workshop 10-18 years old Airbus Faraday Challenge Competition 12-13 years old IET FIRST® LEGO® League: Into Orbit Competition 14+ years old IET Resources for teachers pg 39 Flying Start Challenge Competition 11-16 years old Flying Start Challenge Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Resource All ages Airbus Go4Set Competition 12-14 years old EDT Career Advisor Days Resource All ages Airbus Helipad (Broughton only) Workshop 9-16 years old Airbus How to book and contact details pg 40 Interactive STEM Day Activity Day 5-14 years old Airbus Mock Interviews Career Development 14+ years old Airbus Work Experience pg 41 Moon Ladder Challenge Workshop 10-13 years old Airbus 04 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 05
All Ages
Career Events/Fairs STEM Family Challenge
Airbus are always willing to attend career fairs If you would like to book this workshop, please STEM Family Challenge are after school events Programme structure and events, providing it is within our limits. We email: suitable for all ages, designed to encourage young 30 students and their supporting family members can provide students with information about the [email protected] people to work with their family through practical attending each event at a designated local school. schemes and offer them the opportunity to ask hands-on activities, whilst raising awareness of the if you are located around Bristol Benefits to student questions to our apprentices, interns and graduates future careers available in STEM through support [email protected] Team building, provide students and families with about what it is really like to be an Airbus employee from Airbus mentors and, a careers talk at the end or [email protected] information about STEM careers and study routes. on an Early Careers pathway. We will provide you of the event. if you are located around North Wales with literature on Airbus and all our roles, so that Duration 2 hours (usually 18:00-20:00) The evening has been designed to show families students and teachers have something to refer some of the courses and careers available in STEM Where At your school or organisation back to. as well as give them the opportunity to work in their For more information, please visit: All information about our schemes can be found family teams on a fun ‘hands on’ challenge - for http://www.etrust.org.uk/first-edition/first- via our website. which no prior STEM knowledge is needed. From editions-stem-family-challenge-events coding to racing cars, our specially-designed, curriculum-linked activities cover a range of areas If you would like to book this event, please email: designed to inform young people and educating [email protected] family members about how STEM is fun, interesting if you are located around Bristol and rewarding. STEM Family Challenge helps build School Presentations [email protected] relationships between teachers and parents. or [email protected] Airbus offer presentations during assemblies, free Benefits to students if you are located around North Wales lessons, PSHE sessions or during school breaks to Students gain a better understanding of career inform students about our varied career pathways. pathways with Airbus, and are given the chance to STEM ambassadors, graduates, apprentices ask questions to existing apprentices/graduates who and Early Careers Managers deliver informative have recently gone through the recruitment process. presentations on the many career paths that Airbus Duration Flexible offer, discuss their own career journey with the company and answer any questions relating to Where At your school or organisation applications with Airbus, or the company more If you would like to book this event, please email: generally. [email protected] Presentations can be arranged for any time during if you are located around Bristol the school day, and can be as short or long as the [email protected] time available. or [email protected] if you are located around North Wales 06 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 07
KS1 KS1
Airbus Fleet Challenges FIRST® LEGO® League Jr: Mission Moon
Top Trump style game where students learn about Suitable for 5-11 years old Each year a theme relevant to the world around them • Download the Challenge Document. and compare different Airbus products, including is chosen as a focus for the children’s work. The Duration Icebreaker or 1 hour workshop • Work through the Team Meeting Guide to commercial aircraft, helicopter and satellites. Students teams research the topic, displaying their ideas on a complete the Challenge, and allow the children can also use the cards to play snap, or trade off to Where At your school or organisation Show Me poster, build a LEGO® model and program to develop their Poster and Model. create a whole set. one part to move using LEGO Education WeDo 2.0. If you would like to book this workshop, please • Bring your team to the nearest Expo where they’ll FIRST® LEGO® League Jr. Each child receives a medal Programme structure email: present their work to other teams, share what and certificate, and the goal is to send them home This activity can be run as an icebreaker for 10-15 [email protected] they have learnt and celebrate their achievements. feeling incredibly proud of what they have achieved! minutes, or as a workshop through a structured one if you are located around Bristol Benefits to students hour long session. This programme costs £35 (plus VAT) to register [email protected] Rapidly develops teamwork, design, programming and the cost of a LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 set. The longer session will include students playing top or [email protected] and communication skills, but the most important These are available from any LEGO Education trumps. if you are located around North Wales thing is that it is great fun and makes the children distribution partner or through our Official feel proud of what they have achieved! Students Benefits to students Mindstorms/WeDo 2.0 partner Raising Robots. You can complete a Discovery CREST Award whilst Students learn about all the different areas within will need the WeDo 2.0 to program the model. Airbus and what products they generate. This is a competing in the FIRST® LEGO® League Jr. during collaborate workshop between Airbus Commercial, Programme structure this project. • Create a team of 6 students. Helicopter and Defence & Space. Suitable for 6-9 years old • Choose an Expo and register to take part. Once you have registered and paid, you’ll be sent an Duration 2 hours Inspire Set (big box of LEGO), 6 x Engineering Where At your school or organisation Notebooks and a Team Meeting Guide, which Airbus Happy Families (Filton only) For more information and how to apply, please visit: will help you organise your team and guide them https://firstlegoleague.theiet.org/junior/index.cfm Airbus Happy Families is a great workshop Benefits to students through the Challenge. where students can learn about all the different This workshop requires students to learn about the components on the aircraft. Each student will have different parts of the aircraft and explore how they to collect, assemble and then remember what the work together to ensure the aircraft performs as it different parts of the aircraft do, with some added should. They will also discover the different products Interactive STEM Days fun facts along the way! that airbus produce, and who Airbus supply too. Dedicate a whole or half day to allow students to Programme structure Meaning the next time they are at an airport they Programme structure explore STEM through play. Interactive STEM days Equipment is delivered to your school or can easily identify an Airbus aircraft. Airbus Happy Families is a buildable workshop are a great way to engage students in physics and organisation. Preferably a hall/sports hall. with three elements meaning we can fill the space Suitable for 5-14 years old engineering concepts, while playing and having fun. Benefits to students available. Each element can be run separately as Duration 20 minutes, 40 minutes or 1 hour For KS1 we recommend the following equipment: Students will learn basics around aerodynamics an icebreaker, or all three together to make a whole • Bernoulli Blower through play. workshop. Where At your school or organisation • Landing Gear Test System Suitable for 5-7 years old Part 1: Teams will play happy families with the If you would like to book this event, please email: • Wind Tunnel aircraft parts hoping to create a whole aircraft (20 [email protected] • Plane Shooter Duration Whole/half day minutes). if you are located around Bristol • Sphero Table Where At your school or organisation Part 2: One the teams have their completed aircraft Students can design, create and fire paper Interactive STEM Days require booking 2 months in family they will assemble the parts on their game aeroplanes using the plane shooter, race the sphero advance to ensure we have the correct equipment. board. Students match up the cards with the parts balls around a track against one another, learn on the board, and learn about what each part of If you would like to book this event, please email: about aerodynamics through the wind tunnel, throw the plane does. Learning fun facts that they will [email protected] balls into the Bernoulli blower and watch them remember! (20 minutes). if you are located around Bristol fly off, and look at real landing gear. The event is Part 3: a quiz! Using their boards and all they have designed to make STEM fun, and encourage a [email protected] learned, teams will compete in a quiz, showing off generation of STEM engaged students. or [email protected] their knowledge (20 minutes). if you are located around North Wales 08 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 09
KS1 KS2
MICRO FIRST® LEGO® League Jr: Mission Moon Airbus Fleet Challenges
MICRO FIRST® LEGO® League Jr. is an ‘in house’ Benefits to students Top Trump style game where students learn about Suitable for 5-11 years old version of the globally recognised FIRST® LEGO® Rapidly develops teamwork, design, programming and compare different Airbus products, including Duration Icebreaker or 1 hour workshop League Jr. It gives you the opportunity, resources and communication skills, but the most important commercial aircraft, helicopter and satellites. Students and guidance to run and deliver the programme thing is that it is great fun and makes the children can also use the cards to play snap, or trade off to Where At your school or organisation within your curriculum time. feel proud of what they have achieved! Students create a whole set. If you would like to book this workshop, please can complete a Discovery CREST Award whilst This programme is also available for the whole class Programme structure email: competing in the FIRST® LEGO® League Jr. during (up to 30 students) at the increased price of £125 This activity can be run as an icebreaker for 10-15 [email protected] this project. (plus VAT). For this ‘in house’ version you will need minutes, or as a workshop through a structured one if you are located around Bristol to purchase 5 X LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 Core Suitable for 6-9 years old hour long session. [email protected] Sets and have compatible computers/tablets for the Duration 6, 9 or 12 x 1 hour sessions The longer session will include students playing top or [email protected] children to code and program their models. trumps. if you are located around North Wales Where At your school or organisation We suggest each session lasts an hour, but it is Benefits to students up to you. The Challenge can be completed in 6, For more information and how to apply, please visit: Students learn about all the different areas within 9 or 12 session routes - completely depending on https://firstlegoleague.theiet.org/tournament/ Airbus and what products they generate. This is a when you would like to run it, and the MICRO Expo micro-league-jr-info.cfm collaborate workshop between Airbus Commercial, comes at the end of the route. In the MICRO guide, Helicopter and Defence & Space. there is also an option for a three session route, for a more immersive experience.
Airbus Happy Families (Filton only) Paper Planes Reading Buddies and Number Partners Airbus Happy Families is a great workshop Benefits to students The workshop demonstrates the 4 forces of flight, Airbus offer lunchtime sessions where employees where students can learn about all the different This workshop requires students to learn about the aircraft control, types of aircraft, and parts of the visit local primary schools to support young people components on the aircraft. Each student will have different parts of the aircraft and explore how they aircraft by making and testing different types of with reading or number skills. Mentoring students to collect, assemble and then remember what the work together to ensure the aircraft performs as it paper planes. not only assists in their learning and builds their different parts of the aircraft do, with some added should. They will also discover the different products confidence, but also connects schools with Airbus. You could partner this workshop up with a School fun facts along the way! that airbus produce, and who Airbus supply too. Meaning the next time they are at an airport they Presentation or Interactive STEM Day. This is only available to schools within a 10 minute Programme structure drive of Airbus’s Filton Site. can easily identify an Airbus aircraft. Programme structure Airbus Happy Families is a buildable workshop Students are split into groups of 3-4 with a There is a cost to the school or organisation, this is with three elements meaning we can fill the space Suitable for 5-14 years old available. Each element can be run separately as supervisor per group. payable to Ablaze. Duration 20 minutes, 40 minutes or 1 hour an icebreaker, or all three together to make a whole Benefits to students Benefits to students workshop. Where At your school or organisation Learn basic physics about flight, learn through play. Advance learning, building confidence and forming new relationships. Part 1: Teams will play happy families with the If you would like to book this event, please email: Suitable for 6-11 years old aircraft parts hoping to create a whole aircraft (20 [email protected] Suitable for 5-11 years old Duration 1 hour minutes). if you are located around Bristol Duration Lunchtime Part 2: One the teams have their completed aircraft Where At your school or organisation OR at Airbus family they will assemble the parts on their game Filton Where At your school or organisation board. Students match up the cards with the parts If you would like to book this workshop, please email: For additional information and how to organise, on the board, and learn about what each part of [email protected] please email: the plane does. Learning fun facts that they will if you are located around Bristol [email protected] remember! (20 minutes). [email protected] if you are located around Bristol Part 3: a quiz! Using their boards and all they have or [email protected] learned, teams will compete in a quiz, showing off if you are located around North Wales their knowledge (20 minutes). 10 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 11
KS2 KS2
Aircraft Parts (Filton only) FIRST® LEGO® League Jr: Mission Moon
Aircraft parts if a great way for students to explore Suitable for 11-19 years old Each year a theme relevant to the world around • Download the Challenge Document. the different parts of the aircraft and experience a them is chosen as a focus for the children’s work. Duration 1-1.5 hour • Work through the Team Meeting Guide to production line set up. This hands on workshop The teams research the topic, displaying their ideas complete the Challenge, and allow the children requires teams to build elements of their aircraft Where At your school or organisation OR on a Show Me poster, build a LEGO® model and to develop their Poster and Model. before the final assembly, and encouraged to at Airbus Filton program one part to move using LEGO Education • Bring your team to the nearest Expo where they’ll critique this production method and rethink the WeDo 2.0. FIRST® LEGO® League Jr. Each child If you would like to book this workshop, please present their work to other teams, share what design. Students will each be given a role within receives a medal and certificate, and the goal is to email: they have learnt and celebrate their achievements. the team, and work together to ensure the final send them home feeling incredibly proud of what [email protected] assembly point runs smoothly. they have achieved! Benefits to students if you are located around Bristol Rapidly develops teamwork, design, programming Programme structure This programme costs £35 (plus VAT) to register and communication skills, but the most important • Teams of 7 students each with their own role. and the cost of a LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 set. thing is that it is great fun and makes the children • Additional levels to the workshop if more time These are available from any LEGO Education feel proud of what they have achieved! Students is available. distribution partner or through our Official can complete a Discovery CREST Award whilst Mindstorms/WeDo 2.0 partner Raising Robots. You competing in the FIRST® LEGO® League Jr. during Benefits to students will need the WeDo 2.0 to program the model. This will improve student’s teamwork, knowledge of this project. Programme structure aircraft parts and understand of batch production Suitable for 6-9 years old and assembly lines. Hands on workshop with • Create a team of 6 students. time pressures prepares students for assessment • Choose an Expo and register to take part. Once Duration 2 hours centres which they will likely encounter during job you have registered and paid, you’ll be sent an Where At your school or organisation applications. Inspire Set (big box of LEGO), 6 x Engineering For more information and how to apply, please visit: Notebooks and a Team Meeting Guide, which will help you organise your team and guide them https://firstlegoleague.theiet.org/junior/index.cfm through the Challenge. First Edition
EDT’s First Edition programme provides quality Benefits to students Helipad (Broughton only) Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths Hands on experience of engineering. Graduate (STE(A)M) curriculum enrichment taster experiences as challenger cadets through the Airbus First This hands-on activity is designed to excite and For more information, please visit: for young people aged 9 to 16. These hands-on Edition Programme. Assists the Personal, Learning enlighten young people on how STEM is fun, http://www.etrust.org.uk/node/66 activity days are designed to excite and enlighten and Thinking Skills (PLTS) of the students, by interesting, and results in a rewarding career. young people on how STE(A)M is fun, interesting, encouraging teamwork, creativity, problem solving, The aim of the activity is to get the team to work If you would like to book this event, please email: and results in a rewarding career. time management, and innovation. together to build the strongest and tallest structure [email protected] or [email protected] During a First Edition day students will work on Suitable for 9-16 years old with the resources supplied, which will withhold if you are located around North Wales ‘hands on’ activities where they design, build the weight of a toy helicopter. Students must work Duration Flexible and test a model – and investigate the real together to make a helicopter landing platform from world applications of the Science, Technology, Where At your school or organisation paper and sticking tape and make the strongest structure they can. Engineering and Maths behind the challenge. For more information, please visit: Programme structure http://www.etrust.org.uk/node/66 Benefits to students Events can cater for up to 120 students hosted in a Builds on problem solving skills, time management, If you would like to book this event, please email: large space - ideally a school hall or gym, and run decision making and communication skills. [email protected] through the Academic year (timings are flexible to Suitable for 9-16 years old suit the host’s requirements). if you are located around Bristol [email protected] Duration 1 hour or [email protected] Where At your school or organisation OR if you are located around North Wales at Airbus Broughton 12 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 13
KS2 KS2
Interactive STEM Days Moon Ladder Challenge
Dedicate a whole or half day to allowing students to Programme structure Airbus does not only design and manufacture Benefits to students explore STEM through play. Interactive STEM days Equipment is delivered to your school or Aircraft, we also produce satellites that orbit the This workshop requires students to work towards are a great way to engage students in physics and organisation. Preferably a hall/sports hall. earth. It is important that astronauts are protected a brief, which will improve their teamwork, project engineering concepts, while playing and having fun. Benefits to students during their decent from the aircraft. Students must management, marketing and presenting skills. create a ‘Moon Lander’ to keep two “Astronauts” Students will also give students insight into design For KS2 we recommend the following equipment: Students will learn basics around aerodynamics inside a cup as it is dropped from 3 different heights. and test within engineering. • Bernoulli Blower through play. • Landing Gear Test System Suitable for 7-11 years old Programme structure Suitable for 10-13 years old • Wind Tunnel Students will be given a set of design requirements Duration 1 hour • Plane Shooter Duration Whole/half day and equipment so that they can create their moon • Sphero Table Where At your school or organisation ladder. The ladder will be judged on: Where At your school or organisation • K’nex Interactive STEM Days require booking 2 months in • Ability to keep Astronauts safe within their Moon If you would like to book this workshop, please • VR headsets advance to ensure we have the correct equipment. Landers email: Students can design, create and fire paper [email protected] If you would like to book this event, please email: • The height which the Astronauts are dropped from aeroplanes using the plane shooter, race the sphero if you are located around Bristol [email protected] • Reusability of the Moon Lander balls around a track against one another, learn about [email protected] if you are located around Bristol • Creativity and Innovation of design aerodynamics through the wind tunnel, throw balls or [email protected] into the Bernoulli blower and watch them fly off, and [email protected] Students will also be asked to present your Moon if you are located around North Wales complete a puzzle using a VR headset. The event or [email protected] Lander - giving a brief overview of it’s design is designed to make STEM fun, and encourage a if you are located around North Wales features. generation of STEM engaged students.
Runway Mayhem MICRO FIRST® LEGO® League Jr The Challenge is to drive or program the game Benefits to students MICRO FIRST® LEGO® League Jr. is an ‘in house’ Benefits to students pieces (Sphero robots) to the checkpoints and back Introduction to programming, teamwork, time version of the globally recognised FIRST® LEGO® Rapidly develops teamwork, design, programming in the fastest time. Penalties added for not waiting management. League Jr. It gives you the opportunity, resources and communication skills, but the most important at junctions or leaving the map. and guidance to run and deliver the programme thing is that it is great fun and makes the children Suitable for 8 years and over Groups of students are allowed 1 hour to within your curriculum time. feel proud of what they have achieved! Students Duration 2 hours can complete a Discovery CREST Award whilst programme the game pieces, in order to accurately This programme is also available for the whole class competing in the FIRST® LEGO® League Jr. during navigate the map and back again in the fastest Where At your school or organisation OR at an (up to 30 students) at the increased price of £125 this project. time. Teams compete against one another in order Airbus Site (plus VAT). For this ‘in house’ version you will need to move forward to the next round. Challenge can to purchase 5 X LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 Core If you would like to book this workshop, please Suitable for 6-9 years old be made more difficult to suit age group. Sets and have compatible computers/tablets for the email: Duration 6, 9 or 12 x 1 hour sessions children to code and program their models. You could partner this workshop up with a School [email protected] Where At your school or organisation Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. if you are located around Bristol We suggest each session lasts an hour, but it is up to you. The Challenge can be completed in 6, For more information and how to apply, please visit: Programme structure [email protected] or [email protected] 9 or 12 session routes - completely depending on https://firstlegoleague.theiet.org/tournament/ 30 students split into groups of 4-5, to meet if you are located around North Wales when you would like to run it, and the MICRO Expo micro-league-jr-info.cfm number of game pieces available. comes at the end of the route. In the MICRO guide, there is also an option for a three session route, for a more immersive experience. 14 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 15
KS2 KS3
Sphero Chariot Race Airbus Little Engineer
It is important that all transportation vehicles can Benefits to students The Airbus Little Engineer (ALE) programme is great way to get students working together and carry a payload. Teams will compete against one Students will have to design and manufacture a fantastic way to get children at your school communicating to overcome the challenge, and is another to carry a payload around a track using the their chariots keeping the design brief in mind involved with Science, Technology, Engineering most importantly an immensely fun experience. sphero and K’Nex provided. always. Working to a brief that includes time limits and Mathematics (STEM) activities. The engaging, Programme structure gives students insight into project management. hands-on program is the perfect complement to Teams must build the chariot which will carry the Groups of 4/5 students carry out three different Basic coding skills are also required to control the science syllabus, but is a way that gets children egg and programme a Sphero so that they can challenges in a competition. the Spheros. really interested in the topic of space travel and navigate around a track. aerospace engineering. There are two versions of Benefits to students Suitable for 10-16 years old Programme structure the ALE – one on the topic of space and one on Better understanding of engineering and ability to • Group will be split up into smaller teams Duration 1.5-2 hours the topic of the A380 – Airbus’ largest four-engine, gain practical experience. Improve coding skills (4/6 students per team). and understanding of robotics. Employability Where At your school or organisation OR double-decker jet airliner. skills including: problem solving, teamwork and • Using the K‘nex provided students must build on site at Airbus Filton Airbus volunteers will come into your school to communication. a chariot to carry a payload (egg) and comply If you would like to book this workshop, please lead the session where students create a robotic with any design constraints placed on you. Suitable for 11-15 years old email: structure (either A380 or space themed) which they code through laptops. They carry out three separate • They must then program a Sphero using block [email protected] Duration 2-4 hours challenges on the mission table, with the challenges coding. if you are located around Bristol getting progressively more difficult. The challenges Where At your school or organisation OR at an • Teams will then race their chariots against each [email protected] include coding the robotic to follow a spiralled Airbus Site other after using your programmed Sphero code. or [email protected] line – which the robotic follows through detecting If you would like to book this event, please email: if you are located around North Wales • Penalties applied for dropping or breaking their the contract between the black line and the white [email protected] egg, or not complying with the design constraints. background. if you are located around Bristol The ALE has been hugely successful so far, [email protected] where students have learned about everything or [email protected] from engineering and space to coding. It is a if you are located around North Wales
Wing Bend (Filton only)
Using K’Nex students must build the longest Benefits to students wing that can withstand the highest load with the Learn about the mechanics of flight and resistance. following conditions: Builds on team building and time management • Must fit through “post-box” skills. Requires students to work to a brief with • Only use the materials provided conditions. • No skin panels in rib bay at root end Suitable for 10-18 years old This workshop requires students to demonstrate Duration 1.5-2 hours the design considerations required when designing a wing. Where At your school or organisation OR at an Airbus Site You could partner this workshop up with a School Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. If you would like to book this workshop, please email: Programme structure Wing bend is available for up to 30 students. [email protected] Students can work in teams or alone. if you are located around Bristol 16 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 17
KS3 KS3
Aircraft Parts (Filton only) Career Presentations
Aircraft parts if a great way for students to explore Suitable for 11-19 years old Targeted at 14 year old and above, however we can Suitable for 14-19 years old the different parts of the aircraft and experience a adapt for younger students, this presentations gives Duration 1-1.5 hour Duration Flexible to suit the time available, good for production line set up. This hands on workshop students information about the possible careers assembly requires teams to build elements of their aircraft Where At your school or organisation OR available at Airbus starting from the age of 16 years before the final assembly, and encouraged to at Airbus Filton old. Where At your school critique this production method and rethink the If you would like to book this workshop, please We will discuss the apprenticeship, internship and If you would like to book this workshop, please design. Students will each be given a role within email: graduate programme, sending along individuals on email: the team, and work together to ensure the final [email protected] the schemes who can provide personal experience [email protected] assembly point runs smoothly. if you are located around Bristol on the programme. if you are located around Bristol Programme structure All information about our schemes can be found via [email protected] • Teams of 7 students each with their own role. our website. or [email protected] • Additional levels to the workshop if more time if you are located around North Wales is available. Benefits to students This is an opportunity for students to discover where Benefits to students their studies can take them, and choose their GSCE This will improve student’s teamwork, knowledge of and A-level students know the full requirements from aircraft parts and understand of batch production Airbus. and assembly lines. Hands on workshop with time pressures prepares students for assessment centres which they will likely encounter during job applications. F1 in Schools
F1 in schools is a challenge in which teams of part in the challenge for the first time. Entry Class students deploy CAD/CAM software to collaborate, allows all teams to compete for the honor of being Cabin Design design, analyse, manufacture, test, and then race crowned Regional Champions, who will be invited to miniature compressed air powered cars made. attend the Silverstone National final as VIP guests. This is our most popular workshop in secondary Suitable for 11-16 years old Teams must raise sponsorship and manage budgets Entry Class is FREE to enter. schools, and can be adapted to make it more to fund research, travel and accommodation. The Duration 1-1.5 hours Benefits to students maths focused. challenge inspires students to use IT to learn about Work with CAD/CAM software to design, analyse, Where At your school or organisation OR at an physics, aerodynamics, design, manufacture, This workshop demonstrates the challenges of and manufacture. Builds teambuilding, project Airbus Site branding, graphics, sponsorship, marketing, optimising a cabin design to generate the most management and problem solving skills. profit by asking students to receive a briefing by If you would like to book this workshop, please leadership/teamwork, media skills and financial Suitable for 11-14 years old ‘manager’ about a project, design the project, and email: strategy, and apply them in a practical, imaginative, present their ideas back to ‘manager’ and group. [email protected] competitive and exciting way. Duration 1 day You could partner this workshop up with a School if you are located around Bristol Entry Class is targeted for children aged between Where At your school or organisation [email protected] 11 and 14 (although younger children are permitted Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. For more information and on how to register a team, or [email protected] to enter). Programme structure please visit: if you are located around North Wales This is the perfect first step on your F1 in Schools Groups of 4-5 compete against one another. https://www.f1inschools.co.uk/register.html journey and is aimed at new team/schools taking Benefits to students Project management is a large part of this workshop, with one person taking lead as the ‘manager’. 18 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 19
KS3 KS3
Faraday Challenge by IET FIRST® LEGO® League: Into Orbit
Faraday Challenge is run by The Institution of Benefits to students The FIRST® LEGO® League is run by IET (The • The Challenge documents containing the FIRST® Engineering and Technology and seeks to engage Experience working on a real life engineering Institution of Engineering and Technology) and is LEGO® League rules and instructions for this and enthuse students with STEM subjects and problem. Employability skills including: project a regional competition to encourage children into season will be released globally on 1st August activities through engineering competitions. Teams design and management, presenting, teamwork STEM subjects. 2018. They will be available on the challenge compete against one another to design, create and communication. They will also receive a CREST page of the website. The ethos of FIRST® LEGO® League is to design and promote the best solution to a given real life Discovery Award upon completion. solutions for real world problems and build a • Regional Tournaments take place between late engineering problem. The winners of each event win Suitable for 12-13 years old mission-solving robot made of LEGO®! November and Mid-January. prizes for themselves and a trophy for their school. • The winning team for each regional tournament The top five teams from across the UK get an all- Duration 4 hours Programme structure attends the UK and Ireland Final in February. • You can recruit up to ten team members per team. expenses paid trip to the National Final in July each Where At your school or organisation year to compete for a cash prize of up to £1,000 for • Choose the tournament at which your team Benefits to students their school. For more information and to register your school, would like to compete and complete the Rapidly develops teamwork, design, programming please visit: registration process now to avoid disappointment. and communication skills, but the most important Programme structure https://education.theiet.org/faraday- thing is that it is great fun and makes the children 6 x teams of 6 students per competition. • Your Challenge Set (this is the practice field for feel proud of what they have achieved! challenge-days/enter-your-school/ your robot), comprises of an exclusive selection of LEGO® bricks to be built into missions and Suitable for 14 years and older a roll-out field/mat to practice on (not delivered Duration 1 day until August). • Your team will need to use a LEGO® Where At your school or organisation MINDSTORMS® set to build the robot, which are For more information and on how to register, please available through IET’s official partnership with the visit: Mindstorms equipment supplier Raising Robots. https://firstlegoleague.theiet.org/ All versions of LEGO® MINDSTORMS® are acceptable to use in FIRST® LEGO® League.
Flying Start Challenge
Flying Start Challenge is an engineering competition Suitable for 11-16 years old in the South West of England run by nine aerospace Duration 1 day in school + Fly-Off companies: Airbus, Atkins, BAE Systems, GKN Aerospace, Leonardo, MBDA, Rolls-Royce, Safran Where At your school or organisation Landing Systems and Triumph. For more information, please visit: It is held for students at local schools to help them http://flyingstartchallenge.co.uk/ develop key skills and increase awareness of the excellent careers available in engineering. Programme structure Teams of four students design, build and test a model glider that they will present at the regional Fly-Off. At the Fly-Off, each team will have the chance to fly their glider against schools from the same region and teams will be judged on the distance flown and on a poster presentation detailing the design decisions made. 20 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 21
KS3 KS3
Go4SET Interactive STEM Days
Go4SET (http://www.etrust.org.uk/go4set) Benefits to students Dedicate a whole or half day to allow students to Programme structure links teams of six year 8/9 students with Airbus Mentor support, engineering experience, explore STEM through play. Interactive STEM days Equipment is delivered to your school or employees acting as mentors to offer a 10 session understanding of Airbus and potential career paths. are a great way to engage students in physics and organisation. Preferably a hall/sports hall. STEM project. Work-related learning within an Employability skills including: project management engineering concepts, while playing and having fun. Benefits to students industry and enterprise context is at the core of and report writing. An Industrial Cadets Bronze For KS3 we recommend the following equipment: Students will learn basics around aerodynamics the Go4SET experience. Students will understand Accreditation. • Bernoulli Blower through play. STE(A)M application in a real-world setting and Suitable for 12-14 years old • Landing Gear Test System develop employability skills to help with future study Suitable for 11-14 years old • Wind Tunnel and employment potential. Students receive their Duration 10 week programme • Plane Shooter Duration Whole/half day Industrial Cadets Bronze Accreditation at the end Where At your school or organisation • Sphero Table of the project. This can also be run as a girl’s only Where At your school or organisation • K’nex activity. For more information please visit: • VR headsets Interactive STEM Days require booking 2 months in http://www.etrust.org.uk/node/73 Programme structure • Holographic Lenses advance to ensure we have the correct equipment. Each site will have 16 x teams of 6 students If you would like to book this event, please email: Students can design, create and fire paper If you would like to book this event, please email: - 192 students total across Broughton and Filton. [email protected] aeroplanes using the plane shooter, race the sphero [email protected] if you are located around Bristol balls around a track against one another, learn if you are located around Bristol [email protected] about aerodynamics through the wind tunnel, throw [email protected] or [email protected] balls into the Bernoulli blower and watch them fly or [email protected] if you are located around North Wales off, try on holographic lenses and complete a puzzle if you are located around North Wales using a VR headset. The event is designed to make STEM fun, and encourage a generation of STEM engaged students. Helipad (Broughton only)
This hands-on activity is designed to excite and For more information, please visit: enlighten young people on how STEM is fun, http://www.etrust.org.uk/node/66 interesting, and results in a rewarding career. Mock Interviews The aim of the activity is to get the team to work If you would like to book this event, please email: [email protected] together to build the strongest and tallest structure STEM Ambassadors and Early Careers Managers Benefits to students or [email protected] with the resources supplied, which will withhold are able to perform mock interviews in schools or at Ability to build confidence and gain interview if you are located around North Wales the weight of a toy helicopter. Students must work careers events, relating to engineering. Students get experience, ask questions to interviewers relating to together to make a helicopter landing platform from to experience an interview like scenario, answering recruitment generally and Airbus. paper and sticking tape and make the strongest questions that they would likely face in an interview Suitable for 14 years and older structure they can. with Airbus. Interviewers can also answer any Benefits to students questions relating to Airbus recruitment, and career Duration 1-2 hours Builds on problem solving skills, time management, pathways. Where At your school or organisation OR at an decision making and communication skills. You could partner this workshop up with a School Airbus Site Suitable for 9-16 years old Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. If you would like to book this event, please email: Duration 1 hour Programme structure [email protected] Mock interviews can take around 10/15 minutes if you are located around Bristol Where At your school or organisation OR each, but can be made to fit the length of time at Airbus Broughton [email protected] available. or [email protected] if you are located around North Wales 22 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 23
KS3 KS3
Moon Ladder Challenge People Like Me by WISE
Airbus does not only design and manufacture Benefits to students People Like Me aims to support the recruitment • Long session (120 minutes) Aircraft, we also produce satellites that orbit the This workshop requires students to work towards of girls into STEM subjects post-16, particularly - Introduction activity – 10 minutes earth. It is important that astronauts are protected a brief, which will improve their teamwork, project subjects that girls typically do not choose, such as - People Like me Quiz – 30 minutes during their decent from the aircraft. Students must management, marketing and presenting skills. physics and engineering. - Job types analysis – 25 minutes create a ‘Moon Lander’ to keep two “Astronauts” Students will also give students insight into design - Case Studies or Role Models – 45 minutes The main aims of the session are to show the girls inside a cup as it is dropped from 3 different heights. and test within engineering. that: • Additional Sessions Programme structure Suitable for 10-13 years old • People are happier and more successful - Keeping doors open presentation Students will be given a set of design requirements Duration 1 hour in job roles which match their aptitudes and - Mother and daughter evening session - and equipment so that they can create their moon characteristics. 1-1.5 hours ladder. The ladder will be judged on: Where At your school or organisation - Homework session. • Everyone has their own preferred way of working, • Ability to keep Astronauts safe within their Moon If you would like to book this workshop, please and having to work another way can be stressful, Benefits to students Landers email: frustrating and less successful. Explore potential career paths within STEM. • The height which the Astronauts are dropped from [email protected] • By understanding their own aptitudes and Suitable for 11-16 years old • Reusability of the Moon Lander if you are located around Bristol characteristics it will help them find job roles in the Duration 1-2 hours • Creativity and Innovation of design [email protected] future in which they can be happy and successful. or [email protected] Where At your school or organisation Students will also be asked to present your Moon • If students keep a science subject in their portfolio if you are located around North Wales Lander - giving a brief overview of it’s design features. post-16 it can give them more job options. If you would like further details, please see: You could partner this workshop up with a School https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/what-we-do/ Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. expertise/inspiring-girls-with-people-like-me/ Programme structure If you would like a People Like Me session, • Short Session (60 minutes) please contact: - Introduction activity – 10 minutes [email protected] - People Like me Quiz – 30 minutes - Job types analysis – 20 minutes
Plank Challenge
The plank challenge is designed to get students Benefits to students working together in order to create a product Builds on problem solving, time management, to the customers’ requirements. It is designed decision making and communication skills. to demonstrate the LEAN engineering and Suitable for 12 years and older manufacturing approach. Duration 1 hour Students must stack the planks in order from longest at the bottom and the shortest at the Where At your school or organisation OR at an top with at least one contact point, done to the Airbus Site customer specification under timed conditions. If you would like to book this workshop, please email: You could partner this workshop up with a School [email protected] Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. if you are located around Bristol Programme structure [email protected] For team of 4 to 5. or [email protected] if you are located around North Wales 24 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 25
KS3 KS3
Routes into STEM Sphero Chariot Race
Routes into STEM is an innovative 3 day non- Suitable for 13-15 years old (year 9 & 10) It is important that all transportation vehicles can Benefits to students residential course that provides young people carry a payload. Teams will compete against one Students will have to design and manufacture Duration 3 days aged 13 to 15 and teachers/educators with an another to carry a payload around a track using the their chariots keeping the design brief in mind amazing opportunity to compare both university and Where At your school or organisation sphero and K’Nex provided. always. Working to a brief that includes time limits gives students insight into project management. apprenticeship pathways into STEM Careers. The Applications for academic year 2018/19 are now Teams must build the chariot which will carry the Basic coding skills are also required to control course allows both students and teachers to gain open. For more information and to apply, please visit: egg and programme a Sphero so that they can first-hand experience of life at college, university and the Spheros. http://www.etrust.org.uk/routes-stem-students navigate around a track. within a company, spending 1 day at each. Suitable for 10-16 years old f you would like to book this event, please email: Programme structure The Airbus and EDT Routes into STEM course would • Group will be split up into smaller teams [email protected] Duration 1.5-2 hours be slightly different to the above traditional model in (4/6 students per team). that we would have 1 day at Airbus’s college partner if you are located around Bristol Where At your school or organisation OR and 2 days on site to introduce students to the [email protected] • Using the K‘nex provided students must build on site at Airbus Filton a chariot to carry a payload (egg) and comply pathways available to them if they join Airbus. or [email protected] If you would like to book this workshop, please if you are located around North Wales with any design constraints placed on you. Programme structure email: 30 places are available for Airbus Filton. • They must then program a Sphero using block [email protected] coding. if you are located around Bristol Benefits to students Students will gain an insight into life at college, • Teams will then race their chariots against each [email protected] university and within a company. Students also other after using your programmed Sphero code. or [email protected] graduate as Bronze cadets through Routes into • Penalties applied for dropping or breaking their if you are located around North Wales STEM at Airbus. egg, or not complying with the design constraints.
Site Visit Stargazer
Airbus offer site tours of both Broughton and Filton, Benefits to students This workshop focuses on negotiation and influence Benefits to students escorted by a group of professional Graduates Gain a better understanding of what Airbus do, skills. Students will team up to work as a flight This will improve student’s negotiation and influence currently on scheme. The site tour can be as what engineers do in their daily work, and career systems engineers for StarGazer LTD. The team skills, which are required when working in any team, interactive as you like, adding in a quiz or a checklist opportunities with the company. have been selected to go on a special mission in any workplace. Students also have to work toward to keep students engaged. on the first launch of the new StarGazer 6 test a brief, and learn to compromise while arguing for Suitable for 14 years old and over rocket. As the final cabin layout is not completed their items to be included in the launch. Teamwork Due to safety regulations and safeguarding policy Duration 1-2 hours for this test flight, there will be limited space on is key in this workshop. students must be at least 14 years old to attend a board. Teams can only take seven items from the site tour, and we require personal details of students Where At Airbus Broughton or Filton Suitable for 11-19 years old list provided and will have to explain why certain before access to the site. If you would like to book this event, please email: items should be taken over others. However, each Duration 1 hours Programme structure [email protected] student will have a secret role in the team. Where At your school or organisation OR Maximum group size of 20, escorted by 2 if you are located around Bristol Programme structure at Airbus Filton graduates. [email protected] • Teams of 5 – 8 students If you would like to book this event, please email: if you are located around North Wales • Work independently before negotiating as a group [email protected] if you are located around Bristol [email protected] or [email protected] if you are located around North Wales 26 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 27
KS3 KS4
Wing Bend (FILTON ONLY) Aircraft Parts (Filton only)
Using K’Nex students must build the longest Benefits to students Aircraft parts if a great way for students to explore Suitable for 11-19 years old wing that can withstand the highest load with the Learn about the mechanics of flight and resistance. the different parts of the aircraft and experience a Duration 1-1.5 hour following conditions: Builds on team building and time management skills. production line set up. This hands on workshop • Must fit through “post-box” Requires students to work to a brief with conditions. requires teams to build elements of their aircraft Where At your school or organisation OR • Only use the materials provided before the final assembly, and encouraged to at Airbus Filton Suitable for 10-18 years old • No skin panels in rib bay at root end critique this production method and rethink the If you would like to book this workshop, please Duration 1.5-2 hours design. Students will each be given a role within This workshop requires students to demonstrate email: the team, and work together to ensure the final the design considerations required when designing Where At your school or organisation OR at an [email protected] assembly point runs smoothly. a wing. Airbus Site if you are located around Bristol Programme structure You could partner this workshop up with a School If you would like to book this event, please email: • Teams of 7 students each with their own role. Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. [email protected] • Additional levels to the workshop if more time if you are located around Bristol Programme structure is available. Wing bend is available for up to 30 students. Students can work in teams or alone. Benefits to students This will improve student’s teamwork, knowledge of aircraft parts and understand of batch production and assembly lines. Hands on workshop with time pressures prepares students for assessment centres which they will likely encounter during job applications.
Cabin Design
This is our most popular workshop in secondary Suitable for 11-16 years old schools, and can be adapted to make it more Duration 1-1.5 hours maths focused. Where At your school or organisation OR at an This workshop demonstrates the challenges of Airbus Site optimising a cabin design to generate the most profit by asking students to receive a briefing by If you would like to book this event, please email: ‘manager’ about a project, design the project, and [email protected] present their ideas back to ‘manager’ and group. if you are located around Bristol You could partner this workshop up with a School [email protected] Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. or [email protected] if you are located around North Wales Programme structure Groups of 4-5 compete against one another. Benefits to students Project management is a large part of this workshop, with one person taking lead as the ‘manager’. 28 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 29
KS4 KS4
Career Presentations FIRST® LEGO® League: Into Orbit
Targeted at 14 year old and above, however we can Suitable for 14-19 years old The FIRST® LEGO® League is run by IET (The • The Challenge documents containing the FIRST® adapt for younger students, this presentations gives Institution of Engineering and Technology) and is LEGO® League rules and instructions for this Duration Flexible to suit the time available, good for students information about the possible careers a regional competition to encourage children into season will be released globally on 1st August assembly available at Airbus starting from the age of 16 years STEM subjects. 2018. They will be available on the challenge old. Where At your school page of the website. The ethos of FIRST® LEGO® League is to design We will discuss the apprenticeship, internship and If you would like to book this workshop, please solutions for real world problems and build a • Regional Tournaments take place between late graduate programme, sending along individuals on email: mission-solving robot made of LEGO®! November and Mid-January. the schemes who can provide personal experience • The winning team for each regional tournament [email protected] Programme structure on the programme. attends the UK and Ireland Final in February. if you are located around Bristol • You can recruit up to ten team members per team. All information about our schemes can be found via [email protected] • Choose the tournament at which your team Benefits to students our website. or [email protected] would like to compete and complete the Rapidly develops teamwork, design, programming if you are located around North Wales and communication skills, but the most important Benefits to students registration process now to avoid disappointment. thing is that it is great fun and makes the children This is an opportunity for students to discover where • Your Challenge Set (this is the practice field for feel proud of what they have achieved! their studies can take them, and choose their GSCE your robot), comprises of an exclusive selection and A-level students know the full requirements from of LEGO® bricks to be built into missions and Suitable for 14 years and older Airbus. a roll-out field/mat to practice on (not delivered Duration 1 day until August). • Your team will need to use a LEGO® Where At your school or organisation MINDSTORMS® set to build the robot, which are For more information and on how to register, please available through IET’s official partnership with the visit: F1 in Schools Mindstorms equipment supplier Raising Robots. https://firstlegoleague.theiet.org/ All versions of LEGO® MINDSTORMS® are F1 in schools is a challenge in which teams of more technical regulations to contend with when acceptable to use in FIRST® LEGO® League. students deploy CAD/CAM software to collaborate, designing your car. Teams choosing to enter the design, analyse, manufacture, test, and then race Development Class will be competing for the miniature compressed air powered cars made. chance to become the Development Class UK Teams must raise sponsorship and manage budgets National Champions, which will win them a place to to fund research, travel and accommodation. The represent the UK at the World Finals. Flying Start Challenge challenge inspires students to use IT to learn about A small entry fee of £75+VAT per team applies, physics, aerodynamics, design, manufacture, Flying Start Challenge is an engineering competition Fly-Off. At the Fly-Off, each team will have the which covers your entry into the competition. For branding, graphics, sponsorship, marketing, in the South West of England run by nine aerospace chance to fly their glider against schools from more information and ideas for fundraising, please leadership/teamwork, media skills and financial companies: Airbus, Atkins, BAE Systems, GKN the same region and teams will be judged on see the Competition Regulations. strategy, and apply them in a practical, imaginative, Aerospace, Leonardo, MBDA, Rolls-Royce, Safran the distance flown and on a poster presentation competitive and exciting way. Suitable for 11-19 years old Landing Systems and Triumph. detailing the design decisions made. Development Class is targeted at 11 to 19 years old Duration 1 day It is held for students at local schools to help them Suitable for 11-16 years old develop key skills and increase awareness of the (KS3/KS4). Where At your school or organisation Duration 1 day in school + Fly-Off excellent careers available in engineering. This is the next step up from Entry Class and a For more information and how to register a team, Where At your school or organisation great way to prepare for Professional Class. You please visit: Programme structure will take on more judging categories and have Teams of four students design, build and test a For more information, please visit: https://www.f1inschools.co.uk/register.html model glider that they will present at the regional http://flyingstartchallenge.co.uk/ 30 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 31
KS4 KS4
Go4SET People Like Me by WISE
Go4SET (http://www.etrust.org.uk/go4set) Where At your school or organisation People Like Me aims to support the recruitment • Long session (120 minutes) links teams of six year 8/9 students with Airbus of girls into STEM subjects post-16, particularly - Introduction activity – 10 minutes For more information, please visit: employees acting as mentors to offer a 10 session subjects that girls typically do not choose, such - People Like me Quiz – 30 minutes STEM project. Work-related learning within an http://www.etrust.org.uk/node/73 as physics and engineering. - Job types analysis – 25 minutes industry and enterprise context is at the core of - Case Studies or Role Models – 45 minutes If you would like to book this event, please email: The main aims of the session are to show the girls the Go4SET experience. Students will understand [email protected] that: • Additional Sessions STE(A)M application in a real-world setting and if you are located around Bristol People are happier and more successful - Keeping doors open presentation develop employability skills to help with future study • [email protected] in job roles which match their aptitudes and - Mother and daughter evening session - and employment potential. Students receive their or [email protected] characteristics. 1-1.5 hours Industrial Cadets Bronze Accreditation at the end if you are located around North Wales - Homework session. of the project. This can also be run as a girl’s only • Everyone has their own preferred way of working, activity. and having to work another way can be stressful, Benefits to students frustrating and less successful. Explore potential career paths within STEM. Programme structure By understanding their own aptitudes and Each site will have 16 x teams of 6 students • Suitable for 11-16 years old - 192 students total across Broughton and Filton. characteristics it will help them find job roles in the future in which they can be happy and successful. Duration 1-2 hours Suitable for 12-14 years old • If students keep a science subject in their portfolio Where At your school or organisation Duration 10 week programme post-16 it can give them more job options. If you would like further details, please see: You could partner this workshop up with a School https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/what-we-do/ Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. expertise/inspiring-girls-with-people-like-me/ Programme structure If you would like a People Like Me session, • Short Session (60 minutes) please contact: - Introduction activity – 10 minutes [email protected] - People Like me Quiz – 30 minutes - Job types analysis – 20 minutes
Mock Interviews Plank Challenge STEM Ambassadors and Early Careers Managers Benefits to students are able to perform mock interviews in schools or at Ability to build confidence and gain interview The plank challenge is designed to get students Benefits to students careers events, relating to engineering. Students get experience, ask questions to interviewers relating working together in order to create a product Builds on problem solving, time management, to experience an interview like scenario, answering to recruitment generally and Airbus. to the customers’ requirements. It is designed decision making and communication skills. questions that they would likely face in an interview to demonstrate the LEAN engineering and Suitable for 14 years old and over Suitable for 12 years and older with Airbus. Interviewers can also answer any manufacturing approach. questions relating to Airbus recruitment, and career Duration 1-2 hours Duration 1 hour Students must stack the planks in order from pathways. Where At your school or organisation OR at an longest at the bottom and the shortest at the Where At your school or organisation OR at an You could partner this workshop up with a School Airbus Site top with at least one contact point, done to the Airbus Site Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. If you would like to book this event, please email: customer specification under timed conditions. If you would like to book this workshop, please email: Programme structure [email protected] You could partner this workshop up with a School [email protected] Mock interviews can take around 10/15 minutes if you are located around Bristol Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. if you are located around Bristol each, but can be made to fit the length of time [email protected] Programme structure [email protected] available. or [email protected] For team of 4 to 5. or [email protected] if you are located around North Wales if you are located around North Wales
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KS4 KS4
Site Visit Stargazer
Airbus offer site tours of both Broughton and Filton, Suitable for 14 years old and over This workshop focuses on negotiation and influence Benefits to students escorted by a group of professional Graduates skills. Students will team up to work as a flight This will improve student’s negotiation and influence Duration 1-2 hours currently on scheme. The site tour can be as systems engineers for StarGazer LTD. The team skills, which are required when working in any team, interactive as you like, adding in a quiz or a checklist Where At Airbus Broughton or Filton have been selected to go on a special mission in any workplace. Students also have to work toward on the first launch of the new StarGazer 6 test a brief, and learn to compromise while arguing for to keep students engaged. If you would like to book this event, please email: rocket. As the final cabin layout is not completed their items to be included in the launch. Teamwork Due to safety regulations and safeguarding policy [email protected] for this test flight, there will be limited space on is key in this workshop. students must be at least 14 years old to attend a if you are located around Bristol board. Teams can only take seven items from the site tour, and we require personal details of students Suitable for 11-19 years old [email protected] list provided and will have to explain why certain before access to the site. if you are located around North Wales items should be taken over others. However, each Duration 1 hours Programme structure student will have a secret role in the team. Where At your school or organisation OR Maximum group size of 20, escorted by 2 Programme structure at Airbus Filton graduates. • Teams of 5 – 8 students If you would like to book this event, please email: Benefits to students • Work independently before negotiating as a group [email protected] Gain a better understanding of what Airbus do, if you are located around Bristol what engineers do in their daily work, and career opportunities with the company. [email protected] or [email protected] if you are located around North Wales
Wing Bend (FILTON ONLY)
Using K’Nex students must build the longest Benefits to students wing that can withstand the highest load with the Learn about the mechanics of flight and resistance. following conditions: Builds on team building and time management • Must fit through “post-box” skills. Requires students to work to a brief with • Only use the materials provided conditions. • No skin panels in rib bay at root end Suitable for 10-18 years old This workshop requires students to demonstrate Duration 1.5-2 hours the design considerations required when designing a wing. Where At your school or organisation OR at an Airbus Site You could partner this workshop up with a School Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. If you would like to book this event, please email: Programme structure [email protected] Wing bend is available for up to 30 students. if you are located around Bristol Students can work in teams or alone. 34 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 35
Post-16 Post-16
Aircraft Parts (Filton only) F1 in Schools
Aircraft parts if a great way for students to explore Suitable for 11-19 years old F1 in schools is a challenge in which teams of encourage ambition - so you can enter straight the different parts of the aircraft and experience a students deploy CAD/CAM software to collaborate, away at the age of 11 if you fancy the challenge! Duration 1-1.5 hour production line set up. This hands on workshop design, analyse, manufacture, test, and then race Regional winners in the Professional Class teams requires teams to build elements of their aircraft Where At your school or organisation OR miniature compressed air powered cars made. fight it out at the UK National Finals for a place at before the final assembly, and encouraged to at Airbus Filton Teams must raise sponsorship and manage budgets the star-studded World Finals. critique this production method and rethink the to fund research, travel and accommodation. The If you would like to book this workshop, please A small entry fee of £75+VAT per team applies, design. Students will each be given a role within challenge inspires students to use IT to learn about email: which covers your entry into the competition. For the team, and work together to ensure the final physics, aerodynamics, design, manufacture, [email protected] more information and ideas for fundraising, please assembly point runs smoothly. branding, graphics, sponsorship, marketing, if you are located around Bristol see the Competition Regulations. Programme structure leadership/teamwork, media skills and financial Suitable for 11-19 years old • Teams of 7 students each with their own role. strategy, and apply them in a practical, imaginative, • Additional levels to the workshop if more time competitive and exciting way. Duration 1 day is available. Professional Class is targeted at 11 to 19 years old Where At your school or organisation (KS4/KS5). Benefits to students For more information and how to register a team, This will improve student’s teamwork, knowledge of This is the top tier of the UK competition and is please visit: ideally suited to KS4 teams, although we want to aircraft parts and understand of batch production https://www.f1inschools.co.uk/register.html and assembly lines. Hands on workshop with time pressures prepares students for assessment centres which they will likely encounter during job applications. FIRST® LEGO® League: Into Orbit
The FIRST® LEGO® League is run by IET (The • The Challenge documents containing the FIRST® Institution of Engineering and Technology) and is LEGO® League rules and instructions for this a regional competition to encourage children into season will be released globally on 1st August Career Presentations STEM subjects. 2018. They will be available on the challenge
® ® page of the website. Targeted at 14 year old and above, however we can Suitable for 14-19 years old The ethos of FIRST LEGO League is to design • Regional Tournaments take place between late adapt for younger students, this presentations gives solutions for real world problems and build a Duration Flexible to suit the time available, good for ® November and Mid-January. students information about the possible careers mission-solving robot made of LEGO ! assembly • The winning team for each regional tournament available at Airbus starting from the age of 16 years Programme structure attends the UK and Ireland Final in February. old. Where At your school • You can recruit up to ten team members per team. We will discuss the apprenticeship, internship and If you would like to book this workshop, please • Choose the tournament at which your team Benefits to students graduate programme, sending along individuals on email: would like to compete and complete the Rapidly develops teamwork, design, programming the schemes who can provide personal experience [email protected] registration process now to avoid disappointment. and communication skills, but the most important thing is that it is great fun and makes the children on the programme. if you are located around Bristol • Your Challenge Set (this is the practice field for feel proud of what they have achieved! All information about our schemes can be found via [email protected] your robot), comprises of an exclusive selection ® our website. or [email protected] of LEGO bricks to be built into missions and Suitable for 14 years and older a roll-out field/mat to practice on (not delivered if you are located around North Wales Duration 1 day Benefits to students until August). This is an opportunity for students to discover where • Your team will need to use a LEGO® Where At your school or organisation their studies can take them, and choose their GSCE MINDSTORMS® set to build the robot, which are For more information and on how to register, please and A-level students know the full requirements from available through IET’s official partnership with the visit: Airbus. Mindstorms equipment supplier Raising Robots. https://firstlegoleague.theiet.org/ All versions of LEGO® MINDSTORMS® are acceptable to use in FIRST® LEGO® League. 36 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 37
Post-16 Post-16
Mock Interviews Plank Challenge
STEM Ambassadors and Early Careers Managers Benefits to students The plank challenge is designed to get students Benefits to students are able to perform mock interviews in schools or at Ability to build confidence and gain interview working together in order to create a product Builds on problem solving, time management, careers events, relating to engineering. Students get experience, ask questions to interviewers relating to to the customers’ requirements. It is designed decision making and communication skills. to experience an interview like scenario, answering recruitment generally and Airbus. to demonstrate the LEAN engineering and Suitable for 12 years and older questions that they would likely face in an interview manufacturing approach. Suitable for 14 years old and over with Airbus. Interviewers can also answer any Duration 1 hour Students must stack the planks in order from questions relating to Airbus recruitment, and career Duration 1-2 hours longest at the bottom and the shortest at the Where At your school or organisation OR at an pathways. Where At Airbus Broughton or Filton top with at least one contact point, done to the Airbus Site You could partner this workshop up with a School If you would like to book this event, please email: customer specification under timed conditions. If you would like to book this workshop, please email: Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. [email protected] You could partner this workshop up with a School [email protected] Programme structure if you are located around Bristol Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. if you are located around Bristol Mock interviews can take around 10/15 minutes Programme structure [email protected] each, but can be made to fit the length of time For team of 4 to 5. or [email protected] available. if you are located around North Wales
People Like Me by WISE Site Visit
People Like Me aims to support the recruitment • Additional Sessions Airbus offer site tours of both Broughton and Filton, of girls into STEM subjects post-16, particularly - Keeping doors open presentation escorted by a group of professional Graduates subjects that girls typically do not choose, such - Mother and daughter evening session - currently on scheme. as physics and engineering. 1-1.5 hours Due to safety regulations and safeguarding policy - Homework session. The main aims of the session are to show the girls students must be at least 14 years old to attend a that: Benefits to students site tour. Explore potential career paths within STEM. • People are happier and more successful Programme structure in job roles which match their aptitudes and Suitable for 16-18 years old Maximum group size of 20, escorted by 2 characteristics. Duration 30-50 minutes graduates. • Everyone has their own preferred way of working, Benefits to students and having to work another way can be stressful, Where At your school or organisation OR at an Gain a better understanding of what Airbus do, frustrating and less successful. Airbus Site what engineers do in their daily work, and career • By understanding their own aptitudes and If you would like further details, please see: opportunities with the company. characteristics it will help them find job roles in the https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/what-we-do/ Suitable for 14 years old and over future in which they can be happy and successful. expertise/inspiring-girls-with-people-like-me/ • If students keep a science subject in their portfolio If you would like a People Like Me session, Duration 1-2 hours post-16 it can give them more job options. please contact: Where At Airbus Broughton or Filton You could partner this workshop up with a School [email protected] If you would like to book this event, please email: Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. [email protected] Programme structure if you are located around Bristol • Short Session (30 minutes) [email protected] - Introduction activity – 5 minutes or [email protected] - People Like me Quiz – 15 minutes if you are located around North Wales - Job types analysis – 10 minutes 38 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 39
Post-16 Resources for teachers
Stargazer Airbus Foundation Discovery Space
This workshop focuses on negotiation and influence Benefits to students The Airbus Foundation Discovery Space is a digital Resources include videos, tool kits to create skills. Students will team up to work as a flight This will improve student’s negotiation and influence space created to inspire young people in STEM workshops, information and templates to create systems engineers for StarGazer LTD. The team skills, which are required when working in any team, through aerospace. It is also a place for educators your own Discovery Space. All resources are have been selected to go on a special mission in any workplace. Students also have to work toward to find some great tools to help them engage downloadable and easy to use. on the first launch of the new StarGazer 6 test a brief, and learn to compromise while arguing for students with STEM topics. The Discovery Space For all resources, please visit: rocket. As the final cabin layout is not completed their items to be included in the launch. Teamwork is being updated all the time and includes regular for this test flight, there will be limited space on is key in this workshop. competitions with a chance to win some great https://www.airbus.com/company/ board. Teams can only take seven items from the discovery-space.html Suitable for 11-19 years old prizes! Join the moon camp challenge or the build list provided and will have to explain why certain your own rocket. Learn about flying in space and items should be taken over others. However, each Duration 1 hours how to live on the moon... student will have a secret role in the team. Where At your school or organisation OR Programme structure at Airbus Filton • Teams of 5 – 8 students If you would like to book this event, please email: Career Advisor Days • Work independently before negotiating as a group [email protected] if you are located around Bristol We provide days dedicated to informing Careers If you would like to book this workshop, please email: [email protected] Advisors/Lead in schools about the things they [email protected] or [email protected] could do to engage more with STEM. if you are located around Bristol if you are located around North Wales [email protected] or [email protected] if you are located around North Wales
Wing Bend (FILTON ONLY)
Using K’Nex students must build the longest Benefits to students wing that can withstand the highest load with the Learn about the mechanics of flight and resistance. following conditions: Builds on team building and time management • Must fit through “post-box” skills. Requires students to work to a brief with • Only use the materials provided conditions. • No skin panels in rib bay at root end Suitable for 10-18 years old This workshop requires students to demonstrate Duration 1.5-2 hours the design considerations required when designing a wing. Where At your school or organisation OR at an Airbus Site You could partner this workshop up with a School Presentation, Interactive STEM Day or Site Tour. If you would like to book this event, please email: Programme structure [email protected] Wing bend is available for up to 30 students. if you are located around Bristol Students can work in teams or alone. 40 STEM Engagement Catalogue STEM Engagement Catalogue 41
How to book Work Experience
Contacts Airbus Work Experience 2020: Apply now!
For additional information on any event listed or any Airbus offers work experience opportunities for 14-19 Suitable for 14-19 years old general inquiries, please email: year olds at its sites in Broughton, North Wales and Where At Airbus Broughton or Filton Filton, Bristol. Bristol How to apply Opportunities are open to students and young people Adele Matthews Please visit the website to download the application currently studying at secondary school or college. [email protected] form: Placements are available in Engineering, https://www.airbus.com/careers/apprentices- North Wales Manufacturing, Information Management, Cyber and-pupils/in-the-united-kingdom.html and, Facilities Management. Where possible we Ashleigh King And email to: [email protected] will endeavour to match you up with a host in an [email protected] 07585 404669 area of your interest, however this may not always be possible. Please put in the email title Airbus WEX Broughton Joanne Murray or Airbus WEX Filton along with your preferred dates. [email protected] Please note, we do not accept CV’s or Cover Letters. 07585 404669 2020 Dates Deadline for applications 17-20 February Friday 27 December 2019 If you would like to book any workshop listed as 6-9 April Friday 28 February 2020 Airbus, please email: 22-25 June Friday 24 April 2020 Bristol 6-9 July Friday 24 April 2020 [email protected] 26-29 October Friday 31 July 2020
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