Over 1,200 school pupils attended our Inspire Learning Festival at Springwood Park, taking part in an exciting series of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) focused learning activities.
Inspire Learning Festival
Hosted by the award winning Inspire Learning team, the two-day festival, now in its fourth year, showcases the best of technology in education and aims to highlight digital and STEM focused career opportunities they may wish to consider for their future.
Primary 6 pupils took part in inspiring activities and demonstrations from industry leading partners, including Developing Young Workforce Borders, Royal Air Force, SRUC, Skills Development Scotland, Morrison Construction, Rickerby, NHS Borders, Glasgow Science Centres, Plexus, Eyemouth High E-racing, Resilience, SFA, and live science with Dr Bunheads.
Councillor Julie Pirone, SBC’s Executive Member for Education, Youth Development and Lifelong Learning
“Now in its fourth year, the Inspire Learning Festival is a fantastic event, which gives Borders primary pupils the opportunity to enjoy exciting digital learning experience, through hands-on STEM workshops with industry leading partners.
“Digital technology is something SBC has boldly embedded in education through the Inspire Learning programme, and it’s really important for pupils to see how what they learn in the classroom plays out in the real world, across a a number of businesses and industries.
“By experiencing different areas, we hope our young people will see there are valuable career opportunities. We want this festival to be really inspiring, and I think, that’s what it has been before and will be this time around.”
Images from this year’s event are available on SBC's Flickr page.