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 […]
The Board of the Schools’ Aerospace Careers Programme Charity is extremely pleased to welcome a new member: Gillian Marshall. Gillian is Chief Executive of the Alpha Trust which was formed in April 2018. She is also Executive Principal of Colchester County High School for Girls (CCHSG). The Gilberd School and Manningtree High School are the […]
On 12 July the presentation team of Michael Smith, Chris Marshall, Mike Stokes, Lee Mason and, of course Spot, under the guise of ‘Speakers for Schools’ (https://www.speakersforschools.org) visited Andover in Hampshire, a Town that dates back to at least 950 AD as a Saxon Village of about 500 souls. Indeed, it was mentioned in the […]
On 9 July the presentation team of Michael Smith, Chris Marshall, Mike Stokes and Lee Mason, joined by Ewan McDonald and Nuham Thomas from the global engineering consultancy, AtkinsRealis, were hosted by Abbey Wood Community School of the Olympus Academy Trust alongside two other members of the Trust, Patchway Community School and Winterbourne Academy. The […]
The Schools’ Aerospace Careers Programme (ACP) has partnered with Farnborough International and will be joining them at the Farnborough International Airshow ‘Pioneers of Tomorrow’ day on Friday 26 July 2024 where you will find us in the Hands-on Activities area next door to the Careers Fair. The day is a dedicated STEM-focused event designed to […]