Morgan Sindall Construction has become the first construction company to partner with Developing Experts for their interactive STEM lessons
Morgan Sindall has become the first construction company to partner with Developing Experts on their educational platform, which provides online resources such as interactive STEM lessons (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
Developing Experts connects talent to future employers through lessons, online resources and a careers library
It provides over 6,500 schools with a continually growing resource of over 1,000 interactive lessons with embedded experiments, handouts, assessments and industry and career links.
Resources are fully mapped against multiple curricula, including the science national curriculum for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3.
Morgan Sindall will develop a bespoke set of interactive STEM lessons
Morgan Sindall is joining other industry leaders including Network Rail, Rolls Royce SMR, Oxford University and government departments in becoming a Developing Experts partner.
As part of this collaboration, Morgan Sindall will help children, teachers and parents better understand how construction relates to their everyday lives.
The curriculum Morgan Sindall will develop will also incorporate its ongoing partnership with the Carbon Literacy Project, with lessons on the role that individuals, and the construction industry, can play in protecting the planet for future generations.
The platform will also help create a community of young people who have an interest in construction and the built environment to offer further support, opportunities to learn, and to participate in activities such as our Virtual Work Experience programme.
This provides an opportunity to address the industry’s skills shortage and promote greater diversity in construction.
Showcasing digital construction to the next generation
Pat Boyle, Morgan Sindall Construction’s managing director: “This partnership is all about helping to get young people excited about the built environment, and as they progress in to secondary school, to open their eyes to the opportunities available to them in a wide variety of careers as they start to consider their paths to employment.
“With Developing Experts, we want to address the preconceptions that can stop people entering our industry, and ensure the next generation has a more rounded view of the built environment. We will show that for construction in 2022, computers are just as important as concrete.
“We will also demonstrate that they could take our industry forward through the use of new technology such as robotics, 3D printing, AI and technological advances we do not even know about yet.”
