By Anne Bailey | Co-founder / Director
One of the ways we provide careers inspiration is by giving children as young as eight years old the chance to have hands-on experiences of science, technology and engineering. Over the last few months we've given over 1,000 young people this opportunity. Our goal is to challenge preconceptions about what it's like to work in STEM industries and who can do these jobs. We're showing children that STEM is for everybody. It seems to be working because students tell us they can now imagine being scientists and engineers and they want to continue to study these subjects at higher levels.
In the past few months we've also kicked off a new mentoring programme with students in their penultimate year of high-school, enabling the students to get advice and guidance from experienced professionals while they think about their next steps in education or into work.
Our campaign to raise vital funds to continue our work has been very successful. In addition to what we've raised on GlobalGiving, we've had a further £11,000 donated to us directly - as a direct result of this campaign. We've also been thrilled to see people making regular monthly donations. This is such an important part of making our work sustainable.
Thank you to all of you for giving so generously to Form the Future. We are always eager to hear from you so please let us know what you think!
Best wishes,
Anne
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