- Ages 11 to 14
- Online
- 12 November 2024 to 1 November 2026
- Multi-session
- Free
Workshop
Discover your inner vertical farmer and see how your ideas can make a difference to the future of food.
Uncover engineering skills through gameplay with Enginuity's latest game!
Skills Miner Vertical Farming allows students to find out what it's like to design, build and manage a vertical farm through their Minecraft games.
Skills Miner Vertical Farming brings green skills and the “engineering in everything” into the classroom. It inspires students to focus on sustainability and consider innovative and exciting engineering careers.
Promoting STEM, the available resources harness young people’s love of gaming and it is designed for use during lessons, enrichment, or in after school clubs.
Capacity
5-30 students
Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects
Improve attainment and progress in STEM subjects
Learning what the engineering workplace is like
Develop engineering employability skills
Improve awareness and aspirations for STEM-related study and careers
Challenge stereotypes by showing the diversity of disciplines, people and skills involved in engineering
The 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:
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.
Problem solving - the ability to find a solution to a complex situation or challenge.
STEM Ambassadors from a wide range of STEM-related jobs to help bring subjects to life!
Build a micro greenhouse, code a micro:bit to monitor and control conditions, and grow microgreens – an insight into sustainable farming.
A 7-session introductory computing course that supports students in creating a community focused, climate action app prototype.