Hoare Lea
Adopt a School gets
engineers into schools.
As Hoare Lea rolls out its Adopt a School programme across the country, Impact has
been finding out how the pilot benefited pupils and engineers alike.
H
oare Lea has significant back to the industry by inspiring a new practical benefits too.
expertise in the design and generation with clear insight into our Since the launch, Hoare Lea
construction of services for role. It has also opened up a resource engineers have spoken to hundreds of
education buildings. The firm is for secondary schools looking to offer secondary school pupils about what a
passionate about creating learning pupils an individual perspective on the future in engineering might hold. They
environments that encourage the world of work. have given presentations to rooms
development of future generations. It Individual volunteers are given time full of teenagers, taken part in careers
is particularly proud of its involvement to visit schools, together with the fairs, and carried out activities with
in award winning projects like the information they need to work with youngsters who often didn’t know what
Golden Lane Campus in the east end of children to help raise awareness of the engineering involved.
London and Park Hall School in Solihull. opportunities engineering presents. The Electrical engineer Anirban Basak
Partly as a result of that experience, positive feedback suggests schools explained: “My visits have helped
2008 saw the London pilot of their new appreciate the effort. As the scheme to strengthen my communication,
Adopt a School programme launched. goes national, the company is pleased planning and presentation skills, while
This new way of working bought to report that engineers have found providing CPD that covers professional,
together and expanded the ways Hoare
Lea engineers engaged with schools Electrical Engineer Anirban Basak: “It’s
and encouraged young people to think
about engineering as a career. It offers
been great to feel that I can help to make a
engineers a chance to give something
difference to the needs of young people.”
Durant.
Peter
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