Connect Issue 12 . July 2022
News from Mulberry Schools Trust
News from Mulberry Schools Trust
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Richard Street, Commercial Road, London E1 2JP<br />
A 020 7790 6327 m stemacademy@mulberryschoolstrust.org<br />
www.mulberryschoolstrust.org/stemacademy @MulberryTH<br />
Greenpower<br />
race produces<br />
winners second<br />
time around!<br />
On Sunday 18th June, our<br />
Year <strong>12</strong> Mulberry STEM<br />
Academy students raced<br />
in the Greenpower F24+ at<br />
Hethel in Norfolk.<br />
For Mulberry Academy Shoreditch<br />
this was the second race of the season<br />
having taken first and second place at<br />
Goodwood last month.<br />
This time around, the teams were<br />
joined by Mulberry Stepney Green<br />
and Mulberry School for Girls. Over<br />
30 students and staff made their way<br />
to the race track at 5.00am in the<br />
morning. It was an amazing day, and<br />
the Shoreditch teams won first and<br />
second place once again of all teams,<br />
driving at a cool 26mph. The Mulberry<br />
Stepney Green team also did really<br />
well participating for the first time<br />
– achieving 4th place at a speed of<br />
25.6mph.<br />
The Greenpower project is being<br />
delivered in each of our schools.<br />
Mulberry UTC join the teams in<br />
September. The project involves<br />
designing, building and racing a battery<br />
powered car on a Grand Prix track.<br />
Students learn engineering skills such<br />
as aerodynamics, gears, mechanics,<br />
battery efficiency, sustainability and<br />
design; as well as essential team work.<br />
We are privileged to be able to run<br />
the project and to have the support<br />
of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd and<br />
Peter Hodgkinson, Head of Employee<br />
Engagement who has been incredibly<br />
helpful in advising and supporting all<br />
the teams.<br />
Goblins come to local<br />
primary schools<br />
We are delighted to have been running the Goblin<br />
car project with Year 5 students from Canon<br />
Barnett Primary School and Virginia Primary School.<br />
The children designed and built an electric powered car, working<br />
in teams. Our Mulberry STEM Academy have also continued to run<br />
events in many different primary<br />
schools including CREST awards,<br />
robotics and the amazing F1 in<br />
schools competition.<br />
F1 in schools involves children<br />
designing and making miniature<br />
F1 racing cars and these are<br />
powered down a 100m track,<br />
creating a thrilling experience<br />
designed to encourage younger<br />
children’s interest in STEM.<br />
Summer work experience with<br />
Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd<br />
In <strong>July</strong>, we were so excited that <strong>12</strong> Mulberry<br />
STEM Academy Sixth Form students embarked on<br />
a week long residential work experience placement<br />
at Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd (MGP).<br />
Students from across the Trust schools experienced a programme that<br />
consisted of a question and answer session with Toto Wolff, a Microsoft<br />
Teams meet with Sir Lewis Hamilton, meetings with the Technical<br />
Director and the Chief Operating Officer at MGP, alongside spending<br />
most of the week working in their retrospective departments.<br />
The students were<br />
placed in departments<br />
that included car<br />
build, IT, design and<br />
composites. The work<br />
experience placement<br />
was phenomenal.<br />
During the evenings, the<br />
Mulberry STEM Academy<br />
team went out for<br />
dinner. It was also great<br />
welcoming the second<br />
group that attended in<br />
the final week of term.<br />
Successful careers conference<br />
It was brilliant to have hosted another highly successful careers<br />
conference on Saturday 11th June with Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix<br />
Ltd graduate employees. Over 100 Year 10 and <strong>12</strong> students joined<br />
the conference to hear from Jordan Woodhouse, Fuels, Oils and<br />
Logistics Coordinator, Carrie Donaghy, Motorsport Legal Director<br />
and Ryan Vella, Graduate Aerodynamics Design Engineer.<br />
Students were enthused to hear about their personal journeys,<br />
achievements and the barriers they overcame along the way.<br />
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