Ahead of World Space Week 2024, which runs from 4th to 10th October, Oxfordshire Careers Hub held a fantastic Teacher Encounters event, kindly hosted by Satellite Applications Catapult on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.
Oxfordshire teachers and careers professionals attended to find out first-hand about all the amazing work and career opportunities at Catapult. They heard Vicky Patterson from Wheatley Park School and Oliver Goodyear from Oxford Biomedica talking about their experience of working together to develop a lesson resource, had a tour of the operations room to see some of the amazing satellite technology in action and took part in the monthly Satuccino networking event to make connections with amazing individuals working for exciting organisations in the space sector.
It was a great afternoon and there was a real buzz in the room, with teachers saying how inspired they were and how they had already made connections between what they teach and what businesses are doing, which they will be sharing with their students.
We look forward to seeing how the links made develop and to holding lots more Teacher Encounters across Oxfordshire!
The aim of the Careers & Enterprise Company’s Teacher Encounters programme is to provide an opportunity for teachers to engage directly with employers to see and learn about the different career pathways relevant to their subjects, and to observe how their subject is applied practically in business. They can then take this learning back to the classroom to inform and inspire their students.
Watch our Teacher Encounters launch film with Oxford Biomedica to find out more: