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On Campus Partner Events

Throughout the year the Outreach Team partner with a number of external organisations to host large scale outreach events. Some examples of such events include:

RedSTART

Heriot-Watt have been working with financial education charity RedSTART to deliver workshops to primary school pupils. RedSTART have trained a number of Heriot-Watt Outreach Students Ambassadors to help deliver workshops in schools in Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders. The project specifically targets schools in low-income areas to help pupils learn vital financial literacy. Workshops are delivered in schools to P4 and P6 pupils, while P7 pupils are invited on to the Heriot-Watt Campus, where pupils learn complex financial terms through a series of interactive mini games. Pupils also get to meet university staff and students and take part in a campus tour.

To find out more about the initiative - Homepage - RedSTART

Climate Smarter Regional Final

The Heriot-Watt Outreach Team have proudly hosted the Southeast regional final of the Climate Smarter Project for the last three years. The project run by STEMOVATORS aims to get pupils aged 8-14 to think about a sustainable future. School pupils showcase models of their future schools, take part in a range of industry and academic workshops, and get to meet university staff and students.

To find out more about the project, check out the Climate Smarter website.

Ignite

The Heriot-Watt Outreach Team have partnered with the Ignite team at AFBE for the last two years. This initiative aims to get S2 pupils interested in the breadth of different careers in motor sport. As part of this initiative, pupils visit the Heriot-Watt campus to meet researchers and carry out workshops in fuel chemistry and sport and nutritional science. Pupils also get to meet university students involved in a number of extracurricular societies including:

  • HWRacing, where students build and race cars
  • CanSat where students build and launch satellites into space
  • AeroWatt where students build and fly autonomous drones.

To find out more about the project - AFBE-UK programmes: Empowering BME engineers

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Day

For the last two years we have paired up with Whale and Dolphin Conservation, to excite pupils about careers in Marine Science. Pupils got to journey inside a huge inflatable humpback whale, meet researchers in marine science and take part in a series of activities on Green Careers.

Routes into STEM

Heriot-Watt have partnered up with EDT Industrial Cadets to run Bronze Award Routes into STEM campus days. Pupils take part in a series of academic led workshops, meet current students and get to participate in a campus tour.

To find out more about the project - Programmes - Bronze Routes Into STEM Information

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