Sixty-three Year 7 girls were involved in a day dedicated to raising the profile and celebrating the achievements of women in engineering.

The launch of the day included a speech from Shiva Dowlatshahi from the Women’s Engineering Society. Shiva talked about engineering in our day to day lives as well as her own job. Dr Roger Vaugn, a Director at The Three Rivers Learning Trust also attended the launch event.

Here is a flavour of the challenges of the day….

• Product analysis challenge
• Archimedes screw activity
• Building towers and bridges
• Egg drop!
• Routes into Engineering workshop from Professor Rob Davidson, Institute of mechanical
• Engineering, Newcastle University

Mrs Razzaq said: “This is the first time that we have organised a day dedicated to making girls aware of all the fantastic opportunities which are available to them in the engineering field.”

Girls Quotes:

“The day gave me an insight into engineering” – Lily Heaton

“Different and really inspiring” – Victoria Smyth 7A

“I had an amazing day, packed full of fun activities. I would love to do it again!” – Frances Mullen 7R