Nurturing the talent of tomorrow

Posted on 21 Oct 2014 by Victoria Fitzgerald

Scarborough's annual Engineering Week, aimed at encouraging youngsters to consider careers in STEM has just held its most successful event, attracting over 3000 schoolchildren and young students.

On October 20 over 30 organisations, mostly from the Yorkshire region, put on educational and fun displays about careers in engineering today. Many exhibits were hands-on and interactive, such as the rocket-powered supersonic Bloodhound car which is being constructed to break the world land speed record, robotic arm demonstrations where you could try to beat…

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