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Tomorrow's Engineers Week 2024 – Power up your passion – lesson

This Power up your passion lesson is designed to inspire students with ideas for how to discover their passion – the sweet spot where their interests and talents meet – and how to identify what activities and qualification routes can turn this into an engineering or technology career.

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Science Engineering

Power up your passion - Lesson

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Overview

Tomorrow’s Engineers Week 2024, from EngineeringUK, is a yearly series of events and activities for schools across the UK. This Power up your passion lesson is designed to inspire students with ideas for how to discover their passion – the sweet spot where their interests and talents meet – and how to identify what activities and qualification routes can turn this into an engineering or technology career. This lesson helps students to plan how they can apply curiosity, creativity and persistence to move forward in their learning and get ready for their career.


Key information 
Age: 11 to 14 
Time: 45 to 60 minutes 
Subject: PSHE, Careers

Included in this resource: 

  • Lesson slides

  • Activity sheets x 2 (slides 9 and 18) - print one of each per student

  • Career cards x 4 – print or show on screen


Preparation: 
Review this presentation and adapt to meet your students’ needs.

Key vocabulary: 
Passion, career, engineering, technology, curiosity, creativity, persistence.

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Developed by experts​​
This programme has been developed in partnership with Hark and a panel of subject matter experts and practising teachers.​​