Students share their views on ITV News
Having received some local coverage over the weekend regarding the closure of the UTC building, we were surprised to receive a call from ITV News first thing on Monday. However, it wasn’t our building challenges that made the headlines, but rather our sixth formers’ views on politics!
The ITV team joined us at our Sixth Form Centre to interview some of our Year 13 students about their views on the Conservative Party Conference and the day’s policy announcements. All the students involved were highly professional and made a great impression on the news team, earning a feature on the evening ITV News.
Students plan for life on a Jupiter moon
This week, UTC engineering students took part in the DSTL Callisto Moon Base Challenge — an exciting STEM activity where they designed a habitable base on Callisto, one of Jupiter’s moons.
Working in teams, students took on a range of engineering roles — from designing sustainable habitats and managing life-support systems to planning for crew health, communication, and survival in space.
The project gave students the opportunity to apply their science, technology, engineering, and maths skills to a real-world scenario, encouraging creativity, teamwork, and innovative problem-solving. Our Year 12 team really stepped out of their comfort zone in preparing and presenting their solution to a panel of scientists and engineers from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).
Alumni Support Open Event
This week, we hosted our second Open Evening of the year, supported by some of our alumni who shared their experiences of a UTC education.
Amber and Dan joined us for the evening. Dan, now one of our CCF instructors, is a regular at the UTC, leading CCF activities every Tuesday. His day job is as a Cyber Security Analyst for one of the world’s largest cybersecurity companies, CrowdStrike.
Amber is in her final year as a Civil Engineering Degree Apprentice with Sellafield Ltd. Perhaps the highlight of the evening was Spot, the robot dog, who joined Amber to help share her story — from studying at the UTC to working in nuclear waste processing, storage, and decommissioning.
