A recent survey of 11-14 year-old children carried out by Siemens and WorldSkills International discovered that most of them thought that engineering was boring, dirty and not very important. A series of drop-in events taking place this Saturday at the Institute of Manufacturing aims to set the balance straight with exciting hands-on activities and the chance to test out some of the latest technologies in the exciting environment of a lab equipped with advanced equipment.
The programme – which is part of Cambridge Science Festival – has been designed to give children from ages five upwards a flavour of the excitement involved in inventing, making and designing. It includes the chance to meet anthropomorphic robots and fire lasers. Most importantly, it offers children and their parents an opportunity to talk to engineers about their cutting edge work and ask them about their work and why they chose to become engineers.
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Image: Engineers as Superheroes Credit: Alex Driver 2012
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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