STEM Summer Experience

For Years 11 to 13 students from schools in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire interested in careers in STEM, this is an incredible opportunity to gain skills, experience and expertise over two weeks in the summer holidays, all while having fun. And it’s free to attend!

Our STEM Summer Experiences are jam-packed with activities with leading STEM organisations from a wide variety of disciplines in and around Oxfordshire to help you discover many ways STEM skills can open doors to careers in STEM as well as other fields.
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What can you achieve by taking part?

• Expand your creativity and technical skills, while working at your own pace with support from amazing mentors.  Our STEM Summer Experience make you eligible to apply for a Gold CREST Award (recognised by employers).
• Learn more about STEM careers from local STEM companies and industry professionals through workshops and talks.
• Receive mentorship and first-hand advice on careers. You’ll be able to ask questions directly to STEM professionals about different career paths
• Gain awareness of the type of jobs available by studying STEM subjects
• Learn new skills to give you a great start in a STEM career, such as how to write a CV, through training provided by our expert in-house team
• Receive advice on how to be aware of your own mental health and well-being when dealing with difficult challenges.
• Raise your financial as well as online safety awareness through workshops
• Receive a certificate of achievement for taking part

 

What does the STEM Summer Experience involve?

Each STEM Summer Experience offers a rich programme of visits to and from STEM businesses and organsiations, skills and career workshops, and project time centred around a particular theme.

The 2024 STEM Summer Experience gave students the opportunity to design, build and code their own robots, and test them in a challenge. There were also skills workshops including Interview Skills, Financial Skills and CV Writing, as well as visits to and from businesses and organisations, including:

• A visit from Delta AI, discussing entrepreneurship and AI.
• A visit to RAL Space, part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, where students toured the facilities, found out how they are advancing our knowledge of Space and our environment, and got hands-on with some practical computing
• A visit to UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham centre, where students toured the nuclear fusion Joint European Torus (JET) facilities and Remote Application in Challenging Environment (RACE) facilities and found out how robotics are important in the nuclear energy sector.
• A visit from University of Bath. Students took part in a citizen science project and learned more about life as a university student.

 

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