This morning we welcomed Millie Craig from ‘AirBus’ into our P4-7 classroom for a fun morning of STEM learning. Millie is an aeronautical engineer who has recently graduated from the University of Glasgow and now lives and works in London. We were fascinated listening to Millie tell us about her super interesting job, as an engineer, who works on satellites – how impressive!! 🛰️
Millie brought with her some Lego (always a crowd favourite) and a project for us to be AirBus Engineers. We split into two groups, each with the task of building satellites. We were all given a role in the group; 3 fitters (responsible for building the satellites, in order) a Project Manager (responsible for quality assurance of the satellites), a Recycling Manager (who had the satisfying job of breaking up the Lego for reuse), a Transport Manager (whose job was to oversee the movement of the product) and the Customer who kept an excel spreadsheet up to date with how many satellites had been completed by each time, how many defected satellites they made and the number of incomplete Lego satellites left when time ran out.
Pupils were so engaged in the project and teamwork was a clear strength for both of the groups- Go Team P4-7! 😄 They had the opportunity after each round to make changes in their team to improve their production line’s efficiently and used problem solving and critical thinking skills to make changes to increase the customer’s satisfaction and their groups profits.
Ultimately the ‘Naso’ Team were the winners! And were treated to a packet of Haribo’s for their hard work. 🍭We had a really super morning with Millie and can’t thank her enough for travelling all the way from London for this workshop with us! 👩🚀What a fun and engaging way to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths! 🔍And who knows, maybe we have some future aeronautical engineers in our school too!
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