Calling engineering superheroes!

We are delighted to announce The Market Bosworth School (TMBS) has won a Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious award to work once again with ScienceGrrl and the amazing education organisation now>press>play who create educational audio adventures for children.

Eight shortlisted engineers from the ScienceGrrl network and 32 pupils from TMBS will collaborate with now>press>play to create immersive-experience workshops that plunge primary and secondary school pupils into the world of engineering. Immersed in sound, pupils become the engineers, meeting people, discovering places and solving problems on an unforgettable adventure. Workshops will be trialled by pupils and parents attending TMBS and over 10 rural feeder primary schools, evaluated, then rolled out to museums and festivals via the ScienceGrrl network.

Each Engineer will work with four pupils to inspire and inform them about what engineers do and how they change the world to help them to create exciting and informative adventures. As part of this, the Engineers will be given specialist training on workshop facilitation and communication skills.

We are looking for Engineers to take part in this project – engineering undergraduate students are welcome to apply. We’re looking forward to getting a great team together!

You must be available to:

• Attend a one-day communication and facilitation workshop
• Attend and help facilitate a workshop with the students to develop storylines
• Help to deliver at least one of the audio adventure experiences to children in 2015.

If you would like to take part, apply using the form below by Friday the 1st of August.

And for a little bit of inspiration, here is a video we love!