The Engineering Inclusive Futures programme was designed with disabled young people at the forefront, focusing on engaging learners with engineering technologies and allowing them to use their lived experiences to influence inclusive accessibility.
Skills workshops
BOM and Aston University PhD Students delivered hands-on workshops to upskill disabled children with coding of sensors within robotics.
Our disabled learners were able to experience different technologies and learn from industry professionals and were able to explore their future role that they have in influencing inclusive accessibility from their lived experiences. We worked with Aston University and GBSIoT (Greater Birmingham and Solihull Institute of Technology) on these workshops.
Workshops consisted of visits from inclusive engineering companies, presentations from industry professionals, hands-on experience with innovative products and prototypes, as well as activities surrounding inclusive tech.
Career pathways
Engineering Inclusive Futures provided disabled learners an opportunity to experience university life and career pathways from Aston University’s engineering PhD students’ lived experiences.
They also benefited from career pathway insights from engineering experts working in highly innovative engineering organisations.
The Future
Our hope is that Engineering Inclusive Futures will inspire disabled young people to choose STEM for further education, enabling them to pursue problem solving careers and empowering them to make significant impacts to the inclusive engineering industry.
For more information contact adanna@bom.org.uk