The Resonate Festival of Science and Technology welcomed over 500 people. Here the WMG team ran ‘Inventors, Explorers and Engineers’, which featured a robot maze; a robot vehicle battle arena; coding workshops; a controllable model train system and more.

At the Masterclasses, the team, in collaboration with the Ri, opened the eyes of young people to the excitement and value of engineering and, in turn helped to inspire the next generation of scientists, mathematicians and engineers.

Following the final Masterclass, a special event was held for the students to showcase their work and celebrate with their families and teachers, bringing together WMG’s engineering masterclass cohort with the Data Science and Mathematics masterclasses.

Marie Diebolt, WMG Outreach Project Officer on the Inspiring Young Engineers HVM CatapultLink opens in a new window project, explained: “First-hand experience of engineering is so empowering for young people, especially at a time when they are thinking about their own identity and what they might want to do. Positive interactions with role models is crucial to this identity building, and linking it to real global challenges makes the content evocative and exciting. The topics that our engineers teach and research are linked to areas of growth for the UK and for the world, so students gain insight into how engineering can create positive impacts for our planet and our communities.”