Hundreds of students from Hampshire schools flocked to the Get Inspired careers event at Solent University on 12 May. The largest exhibit they faced was the Rotor Challenge created by the Hands On The Future (HOTF) group.
By Nicola Parr, who has volunteered with Hands On The Future and presented the Rotor Challenge as a STEM Ambassador since 2018.
The revolutionary Rotor Challenge for school students is on the road again. It makes its next appearance on 12 May at the EBP Get Inspired careers’ fair for students aged 11-16 at Solent University, Southampton.
The revolutionary Rotor Challenge was a star attraction again in November at the Get Inspired schools careers event at Southampton Guildhall.
Reports of the demise of engineering as a profession in the UK are widely broadcast. But there are two hopeful signs of the survival and long-term future of the creative, innovative and hands-on skills required in engineers.
“Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long-lasting, structures? Aren’t the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony?”
