Live Engineer Event

Lesson: Careers

Class: Year 6 Year: 2018 - 2019

On Monday 5th March 2019, Year 6 participated in a live online engineer event as part of the Engineer's Leaders Award. This competition will see the children submit ideas along the theme of: "If you were an engineer, what would you do?".

The children received a presentation from Alison Benn, a senior engineer at Astrazeneca, a research-based biopharmaceutical company. During the presentation, Alison talked about what had inspired her to become an engineer, along with the route she took to become one. She then shared her previous projects, including working on the testing of flight-test dummies for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and working in a brewery. Moving on, she discussed her current job managing a team of twenty-five engineers in the production of drugs for clinical trials. This includes the production of the drugs and the packaging of them.

Following her talk, she took questions from ourselves and the other primary schools. These ranged from what had been her favourite project so far to her favourite football team (Leicester City).

Many thanks to Alison and the Leaders Award for making the event possible and giving our children the opportunity to speak to a real engineer.