On 8 November the ACP Roadshow Team of Michael Smith, Chris Marshall, Mike Stokes and Lee Mason presented at Townley Grammar School in Bexleyheath, Kent. Included in the audience were students and staff from Bexley Grammar School, Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School and Harris Academy Falconwood. A total audience of 100. Starting with NASA’s Artemis […]
As a charity partner of the Halldale Group – the organisers of EATS 2024 which took place this year in Cascais, Portugal, during 5 to 7 November – the ACP was represented by our Chairman, Dr Michael Smith, and promoted from the opening by Andy Smith the CEO of the Halldale Group. The event was […]
As we approach the Festive Season it is amazing how fast the last three months have flown by since our last Newsletter. As you will see from pages 5 & 6, the ACP continues to be very busy, growing in depth, breadth, content and outreach, indeed we have now met face-to-face with over 8,700 people […]
As publicised in advance under ‘Upcoming Events’ on our website’s ACP Network page, the presentation team of Michael Smith, Chris Marshall, Mike Stokes and, standing in for Lee Mason – Gordon Emanuel, conducted a hands-on activity event at the Peterborough STEM Festival 2024 on 19 October. The event was hosted by the Anglia Ruskin University […]
On 16 October the ACP Roadshow Presentation team of Michael Smith, Chris Marshall, Mike Stokes and Gordon Emanuel were hosted by Epsom College and joined by students and staff from Rosebery School, Teddington School, Blenheim School, Cheam High School and Therfield School. A total audience of 113. Working with the team were Angel Ramstead and […]
On 25 September the ACP Roadshow Presentation Team of Dr Michael Smith, Chris Marshall, Mike Stokes and Lee Mason – supported superbly by Ed Holroyd from Babcock International who are such an important and appreciated member of the ACP ‘family’ – visited Colchester, the first capital of Roman Britain known then as Camulodunum, which before […]
The ACP will conduct a hands-on activity event with drone flight simulators, VR aviation systems and SPOT answering visitors’ questions, on Saturday, 19 October 2024, at the Peterborough STEM Festival which will be held in the Anglia Ruskin University, Peterborough. Superbly supported by the ACP team of Emma, Chris Marshall, Mike Stokes and Lee Mason, […]
On 19 September as our first roadshow presentation for the 2024/25 academic year the ACP visited the river-port town of Barnstaple in Devon. The town lies at the River Taw’s lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century it was licensed to export wool from which it earned great wealth. Later it […]
VRpilot is a company that specializes in creating virtual reality training applications for professional aviation use. Their solutions are designed to maximize immersion and realism, making them effective tools for procedure training, cockpit familiarization, and other training needs for airlines, air forces, and aviation training organizations. Since the ACP introduced VR systems into its Roadshow […]
Today we publish our Summer 2024 Newsletter in which we are delighted to advise that the ACP continues to grow and develop in a most productive and successful manner. For example, having set ourselves an informal target of reaching 5,000 young people, teachers and parents face-to-face by the end of the 2023/24 academic year we […]
Today we launch a new section of the ACP website: Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The section contains two sub-sections, both of which are linked together. Indeed, where relevant, each element of each section is linked together, both internally and to those in the other sub-section. The first sub-section explains Industry 4.0, or 4IR […]
The Schools’ Aerospace Careers Programme held a hands-on activity event at this year’s ‘Pioneers of Tomorrow’ day on 26 July at Farnborough International 2024 when our ‘stand’ was visited by almost 2,000 people. Our flight simulators and AR/VR systems were in constant operation – but Spot was the star of the event performing and answering […]