Silverstone Park’s careers programme with local schools featured on regional mainstream TV earlier this week when ITV Anglia filmed its latest ‘industry day’, this stime with students from the Northampton School for Girls.
Their visit was timely as it coincided with the recently launched Women’s Innovation Network (WIN) and the up-coming International Women In Engineering Day (23 June).
The girls were welcomed inside the Digital Manufacturing Centre, Dumarey Green Power, Nicab, Silverstone Composites and the National College for Motorsport.
During their tour they learn about lightweight materials and designs used in space, how parts for F1 cars are made from carbon fibre, how high powered energy storage systems are helping industry to cut reliance on fossil fuels, how sophisticated cable assemblies which power Las Vegas’s Sphere are put together, and the pressures faced in the pit lane by motorsport mechanics.
Thanks as ever to Ahead Partnership for helping us run such a successful programme which is benefiting thousands of local young people as well as employers by helping to raise awareness about career types and pathways, and thereby address UK engineering’s skills gap.
Thanks also to each occupier for generously volunteering their time with the girls.
CLICK HERE to watch Anglia ITV’s coverage which was broadcast to a catchment area that spans Northampton to Cambridge and Kings Lynn to Luton.
Businesses wishing to join the Silverstone Park Schools Programme should email chantal-lawren.welch@silverstone-park.com
