b'34 Partner News Summer 2021CorporateUK and Ireland. Boeing volunteers focus on outreach activities, bringing STEM to life and showing them how they can make a difference to the world. Undaunted by the physical restrictions in 2020, the STEM Committee created a series of virtual interactive presentationsMaking Engineering Cool Again - which will continue to be rolled out to more groups in 2021.Boeing has partnered with First Scandinavia on the Newton Room project since 2013. From permanent classrooms with full-motion flight simulators to highly mobile classrooms, the Boeing Newton Rooms deliver high-quality experiential STEM education to school students in Europe, anywhere they are needed. The classrooms and quality learning can reach rural or hard-to-reach communities that do not have access to immersive STEM experiences, covering topics such as space, biofuels and advanced materials and manufacturing. InvestingIts clear that in order to develop the nextIn addition to the IET, Boeing partners with generation of innovators, industry needs toa number of UK charities and organisations educate about the breadth of specialismsto support young people from all and opportunities within a technical career in youngand offer a wide and varied range of routesbackgrounds to flourish in life, engage with into these professions. Not only is theretheir passions and challenge them to grow a shortfall of these skills and talent pooland develop their skills. These programmes from The Princes Trust, the Air League, the engineersto fill core engineering roles, there is aRoyal Aeronautical Society, Outfit Moray, continuing disparity between the numbersthe Golddigger Trust and the Jon Egging of men and women entering the industryTrust help hundreds of young people each which needs to be addressed.of theFor engineers at the start of their careers,year, across the whole of the UK. Boeing is also proud of its on-going sponsorship of Boeing offers a number of opportunities,the IETs Young Women Engineer Awards including work experience, graduatewhich recognise the best in young female futureschemes and an apprenticeship programmeengineering talent in the UK. It is clear that which, uniquely, provides experience inchange will be enacted through working both the defence and commercial aircrafttogether in collaboration across industry, businesses. Our engineers also have theand Boeing continues to be committed to opportunity to apply for the Engineeringthese efforts.Career Foundations Programme, a two-year multidisciplinary engineering rotation scheme designed to develop our highly qualified and diverse engineers who will Boeing invests in many ways to supporthelp shape the future of Boeing. Embedded and inspire young people into engineeringwithin these early careers pathways are careers. Encouraging them to exploremyriad opportunities to network across the limits of their imaginations, fulfil theirthe business, connect with a mentor and dreams and choose engineering is keygrow professionally through memberships, to the future success of the aerospacebusiness resource groups and both formal industry, and a range of other connectedand informal learning.sectors. Boeings initiatives begin with school and university engagement throughFor young people in school, the Boeing to apprenticeships, graduate schemes andUK STEM Committee aims to create partnership with external organisationsgreater awareness and enthusiasm for such as the IET on outreach programmes.STEM subjects amongst students in the'