The RAF takes students on a virtual humanitarian aid mission
In partnership with The Smallpeice Trust charity, the RAF has announced its new virtual online course in ‘Humanitarian Aid Engineering Experience’, tasking young people with delivering support to remote areas in need.
Aimed at Year nine, 13-14 year old students, the virtual course will provide first-hand experiences of how the RAF supports the many challenges facing the world; from floods in the UK, to the Ebola outbreak in Africa, and devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean.
An expert team of RAF education officers have developed the course with a series of engineering challenges that the students will have to overcome. This will include making an estimation of the equipment that will be required to set up a RAF Forward Operation Base, designing and building prototypes and tackling budgets. Students will get to creatively solve practical problems, testing their lateral thinking, and explore a range of career paths that could take them around the world.
For further information on how the power of engineering can solve real-life problems, please visit https://www.smallpeicetrust.org.uk/.
