b'16|IET Futures Fund Thanks to her IET bursary and supported mentoring, Mollys confidence has blossomed and shes excelling in her degree apprenticeship. Here she highlights how awards like this have an important role to play in opening up engineering to a much wider range of people. Molly Fraser is a software engineering apprentice at MBDA Missile Systems, where shes currently two and a half years into her four-year degree apprenticeship scheme. While working towards her A levels, Molly applied to several universities. She also applied for the MBDA degree apprenticeship, but as she puts it, had no intention of going down that career path.This all changed with the arrival of Covid and a simple chat with her mum. She said I had the choice of paying 9,000 a year to sit in Zoom lectures, or actually gain some experience at the same time as doing my degree Molly Fraser without getting in debt, Molly explains. Thats what led to me choosing the apprenticeship and I dont regret that decision one little bit!Throughout the four years of her apprenticeship Molly will undertake a total of eight six-month placements across the business whilst studying towards her digital and technology solutions (software engineering pathway) BSc.It was during her first induction week that she Software Engineering Apprentice Degree was introduced to the IET and the Engineering MBDA UK Horizons Bursary scheme (which the current Launch Scholarships scheme evolved from). Engineering Horizons Bursary supported by the Engineers Trust'