by stacey | Dec 12, 2025 | Digital Futures, Featured, Uncategorized
‘Build a Data Centre’ challenge day success Students and staff came into school on Tuesday 9th December excited for one of the best days of the year in a UTC: our Winter challenge day. Tasked by employers within our Digital Futures Programme, the students had to...
by stacey | Jul 21, 2025 | Digital Futures, Featured, Uncategorized
Turning an old but iconic power station into housing, leisure and retail was the challenge facing our students at UTC Heathrow today; could they turn Ratcliffe-on-Soar into a smart, self-sustained city in a day? The students worked in teams, allocating themselves...
by stacey | Jun 11, 2025 | Digital Futures
Our Year 10 students became mechanical engineers, computer programmers, builders and forklift truck operators during an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Robotics Workshop, led by the brilliant team at CreativeHUT. The challenge? To build and program a prototype robot using...
by stacey | Mar 19, 2025 | Digital Futures, Featured, Uncategorized
A group of students from all four of ALET’s UTCs following our pioneering Digital Futures Programme have enjoyed two days fact finding and forging industry connections. The 40+ students have been networking and finding out about career opportunities at Data Centre...
by stacey | Feb 14, 2025 | Digital Futures, Uncategorized
Dhruv Salanki is in his second year of an HNC Building Services apprenticeship at CBRE. He is currently based at University of Westminster, where CBRE have a contract, and says his day-to-day job sees him working in engineering on: “Reactive jobs – so keeping...
by stacey | Feb 10, 2025 | Digital Futures
Sakina Ladak is thriving in a Digital and Technical Solutions degree apprenticeship with Airbus, following excellent results in her IT BTEC gained last summer at UTC Heathrow. Sakina wanted ‘something more challenging than straight university’. Like many...
