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Worcester Bosch, the heating technology manufacturer, hosted pupils from three local primary schools for the West Midlands First LEGO League Explore Festival, with the aim to inspire them to participate with STEM topics.
The initiative aims to address the engineering skills gap by engaging children with STEM from a young age.
This is the third time the company has hosted the festival, with 27 children from Nunnery Wood Primary, Perry Wood Primary and newcomers Bewdley Primary School.
The theme of this year’s event was ‘Submerged’, and the teams were tasked to create their own underwater worlds, using coding to program a set of robots to be able to move, make a sound or shine a light whilst submerged.
The children were presented with an award for taking part, alongside LEGO medals.
Shaun Mansbridge, vice president, finance and controlling for Worcester Bosch said, “I met some really engaged, intelligent and communicative children today, and would be very impressed if that’s some of our future business colleagues.
“We think it’s so important to turn our children’s minds on to the topic of STEM to encourage future engineers but equally the creative side of this activity is also amazing. This is our 3rd year of supporting the LEGO Festival and we have really enjoyed seeing all the hard work that the schools put into it.”
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