Becoming an ICE Ambassador is a stimulating and rewarding way to promote the profession and to enthuse and engage young people.
Benefits of getting involved:
Be a better engineer:
- Work with professionals from other disciplines and companies
- Enhance your networking and communication skills
- Build your confidence
Further your professional development:
- Planning skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Proactive creative thinking
- People management
Enthuse about engineering:
- Show how science, maths and technology relate to everyday life.
- Demonstrate that engineering needs dynamic young people with wide-ranging skills and abilities.
- Encourage more young people to study science and maths and pursue science and engineering careers.
- Improve educational achievement in science and maths subjects.
- Get that “feel-good factor” from seeing students benefit from your involvement.
To find out more information please read this document. Please complete the Application Forms and return to Regional Administrator (contact details below).
Ambassador Projects include:
- Annual Regional Schools Competition
Organised by the Graduates & Students Section of ICE North East, the Schools Competition is aimed at the age range 12/13.
- INPUT hands-on design, make and test projects. Age range 8 to 18+. Projects covering the fields of structures, energy and streamlining of vehicles.
If you are interested in taking part in promoting the profession to young people please do contact us. Training sessions are held periodically in the region and we can offer advice, sample activities, literature and other resources. Or if you know of an organisation that would like our assistance please let us know so that we can contact them.
So if you would like to help to promote engineering either in your area or across the whole region please contact us!
Contact
Irene Hurley
Room 3.13 Cassie Building
School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Newcastle University
Claremont Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
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