School groups
Industrial Cadets:
Challenger Experiences
All students who complete their Challenger Experience will gain an Industrial Cadets Challenger Award. If you would like your school to take part in this experience, click the button below to apply.
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RAF Charitable Trust is Headline Funder of Industrial Cadets and EDT delivered Key Stage 3 Experience Days
Challenger Experiences are designed to inspire and excite students aged 12+, encouraging a positive attitude towards maths, engineering, digital technology, and science. These sessions bring STEM subjects to life with hands-on activities that align with students' interests, focusing on themes like the environment, sustainability, aerospace, digital innovation, and the built environment.
Supported by STEM companies, global industries, and trusts, the STEM experiences provide real-world relevance to classroom learning. Each workshop is aligned to the National Curriculum whilst offering interactive and accessible learning.
A typical day includes three engaging challenges that empower students to believe in their abilities to succeed, regardless of their background, gender, ethnicity or ability.
Industrial Cadets:
FunSTEM Experience
All students who complete their Challenger Experience will gain an Industrial Cadets Challenger Award. If you would like your school to take part in this experience, click the button below to apply.
FunSTEM is an exciting STEM project where pupils will take on the role of scientists and entrepreneurs to complete a project including a research and design workbook, creating a poster, and building a model. Designed to inspire and engage young people, encouraging a positive attitude towards maths, engineering, digital technology, and science.
Students will have the chance to develop skills for learning, life, and work readiness by collaborating in small teams of up to 6 on a dedicated STEM project. Each primary school within their learning community will participate simultaneously and the secondary school will host a graduation event in the school to support the students’ transition to secondary school.
The project is aligned to the National Curriculum, Curriculum for Excellence and Gatsby Benchmarks whilst offering interactive and accessible learning for students and supporting your teaching and learning as a practitioner. FunSTEM allows students to transition well to their new setting, whilst having fun with their current and future friends in STEM activities.
Industrial Cadets: Bronze Mentored Project
All students who complete their project will gain an Industrial Cadets Challenger Award. If you would like your school to take part in this experience, click the button below to apply.
Bronze Mentored Projects allows your students the opportunity to gain essential skills for learning, life and work-readiness, by collaborating in small teams of up to 6 students on a dedicated STEM project.
During the programme, the team will explore potential career paths and discover diverse opportunities in STEM sector whilst being guided by a mentor from a partner company.
Upon completing the programme, students will graduate as Bronze-level Industrial Cadets, earning a nationally recognised award that serves as evidence of their experience and enhances future applications and career prospects.
Industrial Cadets: Gold Mentored Project
Gold Mentored Projects allows students the opportunity to collaborate in a small group (up to 6 students) on a real-world STEM project set by their sponsoring company. Throughout the process, the programme structure and their mentor will help them develop essential work-ready and technical skills, while introducing them to career pathways in industry, including apprenticeship and graduate opportunities.
Upon completing the programme and 50 hours of work, students will graduate as Gold-level Industrial Cadets, earning a nationally recognized award that can enhance their future applications and career prospects.