Experience Engineering Residential

Over three days, students will design, build and test a Greenpower car and a fastcraft for water as part of a team with other Year 12 students. These projects allow the participants a chance to undertake research whilst developing essential key skills.

Staff and students from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences will provide talks, workshops and seminars within their subject areas. This is a free residential course for Year 12 students who meet the below eligibility criteria.

To be eligible participants must be under the age of 18 at the time of the summer school, meet the following academic criteria:

- Have achieved at least 5 9-7 grades at GCSE
- Are taking relevant subjects in relation to engineering (e.g. Maths, Physics and other Science subjects)

and meet at least two of the following Widening Participation criteria:

- In the first generation of your immediate family to apply to Higher Education
- Current home postcode shows that you live in an area with low levels of progression to Higher Education. (Postcodes within the lowest 2 POLAR4 quintiles).
- Attended a school/college whose performance places it into the lowest two quintiles for average QCA points per A level student (or equivalent) (in England, Wales or Northern Ireland) as identified by the Department for Education dataset
- Living in an area with a postcode which falls within the lowest 20 per cent of the Index of Multiple Deprivation
- In receipt of a 16-19 bursary or similar grant OR received Free School Meals at any point during your school education
- Living or grew up in Local Authority care
- Are a Young or Young Adult Carer

The residential is from the 15th-17th April 2020 at the University of Southampton.