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National Careers Week: Tech for Living in Space

A virtual live lesson for students aged 11 to 14 years old on 4 March highlighting the role technology plays in living in space, and what careers are available.

National Careers Week: Tech for Living in Space

Join us on Tuesday 4th March at 9:30am, when our Tech She Can Teacher, Louise, will deliver a virtual 45 minute Tech We Can LIVE lesson for students aged 11-14. This will be an interactive session where the children will be guided to complete paper based tasks and partner discussions - they therefore need to be based at a table with a piece of paper and pen/pencil.

Louise will highlight the role technology plays in helping astronauts stay healthy in space, how technology can be used to communicate with people in space and even how technology helps keep astronauts entertained. She will also show some of the careers within space technology that students could pursue in the future. The students will also have the opportunity to hear from some space technology role models.

The content is being delivered to help celebrate National Careers Week and is suitable for a lesson in the classroom environment or from home.

Learning outcomes

  • Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects

  • Learning what the engineering workplace is like

  • Improve awareness and aspirations for STEM-related study and careers

  • Challenge stereotypes by showing the diversity of disciplines, people and skills involved in engineering

Subjects and topics

    • Computing
    • Design and Technology
    • Engineering
    • Electronics, robotics and programming
    • Space and aerospace engineering

Gatsby benchmarks

TheĀ Gatsby benchmarks are a framework for good careers guidance for schools across all of England and in some areas across the rest of the UK. This experience helps your school to reach the following benchmarks:

  • Learning from career and labour market information
  • Linking curriculum learning to careers
  • Encounters with employers and employees

Essential skills

The essential skills every young person needs to succeed in education and their future career. Find out more at the Skills Builder Partnership. This experience builds the following skills:

  • Aiming high - the ability to set clear, tangible goals and devise a robust route to achieving them.

  • Creativity - the use of imagination and the generation of new ideas.

  • Listening - the ability to listen and understand information.

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