Technology commentator and reporter Maggie Philbin, best known for her work on Tomorrow’s World, explains why she launched TeenTech, an education initiative now transforming young people’s perceptions of engineering careers.
I know the precise moment I decided to set up TeenTech. In December 2007, I asked a class of 12 year olds at a school in Wokingham if they could name a contemporary engineer, scientist or technologist. The only name they came up with was Einstein. Except for one lad who suggested “Charles Cabbage”. They weren’t…
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