Mrs Cobbett recently received a letter written on behalf of Lord Tony Sewell MBE to personally extend his thanks for enabling a Latymer student, Abbas in Year 12, to participate in the inaugural Frontiers in STEM at the House of Lords on Saturday 15th February. 

Here Abbas tells us more about the event: "On Saturday 15th February I was fortunate enough to be invited through the Arkwright engineering scholarship programme to a STEM frontiers event in the House of Lords organised by Lord Tony Sewell, Onehive and hosted by Gregory N. Polletta of iGNITIATE. 

The event was fast paced, with the organisers asking us (a group of around 60 STEM students) to look at real-life STEM case studies, on AI, quantum computers and fluid dynamics. Throughout the day we listened to speakers from different engineering fields, including a UK Ministry of Defense researcher working at AWE, who talked about their work and how they found careers in STEM.

My favourite part of the day was listening to an engineer who specialised in fluid dynamics talk about how in university he led a team to design submarines for a competition in America, where teams had to think about the real-life applications of physics especially the hull and propellor. A big takeaway that I learnt at the event was for anyone who is interested in STEM, to constantly be challenging themselves with projects that increase in complexity and difficulty as you grow up, applying the knowledge you learn in the textbook into the real world."