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The DETI Inspire team used their regional links to recruit primary schools to the programme, with Air League organising all transportation for classes, including the transfer between Aerospace Bristol and UWE Bristol\u2019s Frenchay campus halfway through the day. Coach costs often prohibit schools from arranging trips out for their pupils, even to relatively local educational destinations, so this funding has been really appreciated by schools, particularly those from areas of socio-economic deprivation who have been a priority to secure sessions for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each trip begins with a visit to Aerospace Bristol to explore the history of air travel and aerospace design. The children get to explore the amazing exhibits, with a frequently reported favourite being a tour inside a Concorde aircraft!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is then followed by a visit to UWE’s School of Engineering, where students explore the future of flight on the popular game, Minecraft. The kids enter the virtual Filton runway, built by DETI Inspire collaborator Atkins, where they are encouraged to let their imaginations run wild to think up ways in which air travel can become more sustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The young people have used Minecraft to digitally engineer biofuel stations for planes, where the crops used are grown on site; as well as prototypes for solar powered planes and flying electric cars!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The programme has been extremely popular, with every session booked out by mid-October. While the children\u2019s enthusiasm speaks for itself throughout the day, there\u2019s also been fantastic feedback from teachers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe would like to say a huge thank you for this opportunity. It was a fantastic day and the children were really excited by all that they got to do!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have received a lot of enquiries from schools who would love to participate in our aerospace days out, so we are hoping to continue this initiative into 2023 to reach more students in the South West and inspire them into careers in STEM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n DETI Inspire use the West in Minecraft and subsequent worlds developed with the support of <\/em>Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> and <\/em>Science Hunters<\/em><\/a> through <\/em>Building to Break Barriers<\/em><\/a> (funded by a Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious grant)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The DETI Inspire team at UWE Bristol are collaborating with Air League, the UK’s leading aviation and aerospace charity, who are generously supporting the free delivery of Aerospace Engineering days out for 16 classes from schools in the South West. So far, 243 kids have experienced Bristol\u2019s excellent aviation history at Aerospace Bristol, before streaming … Continue reading “UWE and Aerospace Bristol host local schools for a free STEM day trip!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":10596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,24,18,17,1],"tags":[128,212,213,7,159],"class_list":["post-10594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deti","category-outreach","category-schools","category-teaching","category-uncategorised","tag-aerospace-bristol","tag-air-league","tag-bristol-schools","tag-engineering","tag-minecraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10744,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions\/10744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/10\/IMG_2928-1024x626.jpg\")
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\u201cOverall, a fantastic opportunity for the children and one they would not get often.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/curiosityconnections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Air-League-Aero-and-UWE-logos.png\")
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