TeenTech Surrey is over for another year – but what a day we had! Over 300 year 8 and 9 children took part in an event involving more than 30 different companies employing scientists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians. All combined to make a fairly mind-blowing experience!
We know the students really enjoyed the day and that it made a huge difference:
· In the morning 47% were fairly or very interested in becoming a scientist compared to 70% at the end of the day
· In the morning 37% were fairly or very interested in becoming an engineer compared to 63% at the end of the day
· 52% arrived thinking that people working in STEM were clever interesting and well paid compared to 74 % who left the event feeling that way
So a very significant shift in attitudes, which is what we are trying to achieve!
TeenTech is a collaborative event and we were proud to work with TeenTechCIC and many local and national sponsors. As a result of the huge success of yesterday’s event, and schools now clamouring to book their place for next year, we are busy making plans for another event next November - TeenTech CIC and Satro are really looking forward to continuing our work together – and having another bumper event in 2014. Watch this space!
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