Building to Break Barriers is an outreach project from the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England which is funded by an Ingenious grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Building to Break Barriers will co-produce ten new engineering outreach sessions with engineers, children, and young people, and deliver them around the UK. The sessions will use Minecraft to convey engineering topics. To help increase representation, the children involved will be from under-represented groups, and so will some of the engineers.
A joint session with the IMechE will task children to discuss current global challenges and consider engineering solutions using Minecraft. This discussion will create the development of a framework for a classroom activity which is aimed at 7-14-year olds.
For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Laura and Sophie at ExtendingSTEM@uwe.ac.uk
For further information about Science Hunters please contact the team by email or see the main project website.
If you have an upcoming school visit and would like to know more about resources available to you contact
education@imeche.org