The Schools’ Aerospace Careers Programme (ACP) is extremely pleased to announce that the SaxaVord Spaceport – the first and only Spaceport in the UK to receive a license for vertical launch of satellites to sun synchronous and polar orbit – is now working with the ACP to encourage young people across the UK to explore […]
On 27 March the ACP Roadshow was hosted by Wilson’s School in Wallington, Surrey – Michael Caine’s alma mater – where we were joined by six other schools from the local area. The presentation team was accompanied by Vincent White from AtkinsRealis who provided a clear insight on being an engineer and project manager in […]
Dr Michael Smith, our Chairman, and a presenter with ‘Speakers for Schools’, was joined by Chris Marshall from Airborne Platforms UK – and Spot – at a ‘Speaker for Schools’ talk he gave at Barton Peverill College, Hampshire, on 21 March. Spot was in great form, especially now he has his own ChatGPT capability and […]
On 5 March 2024 Sir Jonathan North College for Girls hosted the ACP Roadshow presentation in Leicester, the final resting place of Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England. The City, the largest in the East Midlands, has a very multi-cultural history reaching back 2,000 years, first Roman, then Anglo-Saxon, then Viking, and eventually […]
We are deeply saddened by the passing of one of our Honorary members and the Aerospace Careers Programme’s very first sponsor – Professor Sir Peter Gregson FREng. Sir Peter was an extremely distinguished scientist and engineer who has very rightly been described as an ‘aerospace luminary’. He was appointed Chair of the Henry Royce Institute […]
Today, as we prepare to commence the second half of the 2023/24 academic year Roadshow to Groups of Schools, we publish the Winter 2023/24 edition of our Quarterly Newsletter which continues to highlight the very extensive progress the ACP is making thanks to the amazing support we continue to receive from an increasing number of […]