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Every year schools from across the UK enter the Rolls-Royce Schools Prize for Science & Technology (formerly the Rolls-Royce Science Prize)- an award that celebrates excellence in STEM teaching and learning, supporting continuous professional development.

We also take a year-round approach to our involvement with schools. Over 300 employees currently act as school governors with the chance to take advantage of our Rolls-Royce School Governors’ Fund. There are around 1,400 STEM Ambassadors in Rolls-Royce, who undertake regular hands-on STEM activities in schools.

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Our Rolls-Royce STEM Ambassadors regularly visit schools near our major sites in Derby and Bristol. There, we run hands-on STEM activities, including workshops and local projects.

For example, our High-Flyers workshop is a 2.5 hour interactive session for primary school pupils that uses drama, music and rhythm to take them on a journey filled with engineering-related excitement. There are also opportunities for older pupils to learn about Rolls-Royce careers and meet early career role models from our apprentice, intern and graduate populations.

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The Big Bang Fair is the largest annual celebration of STEM subjects for young people in the UK - each year over 80,000 students aged 7-19 attend the event at the NEC in Birmingham

Organised by our friends at Engineering UK, we’re proud to offer tomorrow’s brightest minds a glimpse of the exciting STEM-related working world beyond the classroom.

Find out more about the Big Bang Fair

Cub scouts

We’re long-standing partners with The Scout Association in the UK to help equip young people with the STEM skills they need to thrive in the future - both in a business such as ours and the wider world.

We encourage Cub Scouts (8 to 10 year olds) to take part in science activities which are as fun as they are educational to earn their Cub Scientist Badge, developing curiosity and fascination for how things work. Older Scouts (10 to 14 year olds) are given the opportunity to investigate the science in a scouting activity (such as campfires) and communicate this to their peers in order to achieve the Scout Scientist Badge.

You’ll find the STEM resources we’ve created for Cubs and Scouts on The Scout Association’s website.

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We work with Girlguiding UK to support the Innovate Skills Builder. Throughout their Guiding journey, girls and young women can gain a series of 6 staged Innovate badges by completing a range of activities designed to encourage investigative and creative skills, and help 5-18 year olds to explore STEM.

Our aim is to improve the gender imbalance in the UK's engineering & technology workforce by igniting a passion for STEM subjects early on in a girl's life, and helping her to see an exciting and fulfilling future career in the STEM field.

Girlguiding website