Cutlers' "Made in Sheffield" Ambassadors Programme

I was at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre again this morning meeting with the first group of young people, from the four schools involved in the Cutlers' "Made in Sheffield" Project, for the first day of their Cutlers' "Made in Sheffield" Ambassadors Programme.

It was great to meet the first group of young people selected to be part of the Cutlers' "Made in Sheffield"Ambassadors Programme. They were boys and girls from Bradfield School, Stocksbridge High School, Yewlands Technology College and Firth Park Community College and they were an impressive group of potential scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs. The programme aims to develop through a basic can, do, review cycle:

• 'character skills': responsibility, adaptability, resilience, determination and confidence; 
• 'core skills': communication, literacy, numeracy, creativity and learning to learn; 
• experience of the world of work; and
• academic and technical excellence.