2023 STEM Festival

On Wednesday 8th March, 94 students signed up to visit the South Ribble Flood Risk Management Scheme, a £55million project currently under construction in our local area. We met a team of experts led by Fiona Duke from the Environment Agency, which included chartered surveyors, flood risk analysts, asset managers, civil engineers and biodiversity officers. They showed our young Geographers some of the exciting career pathways that Geography combined with STEM can offer and how to do our own coast-benefit analysis on the project. 

A massive thank you to the girls for their interest and enthusiasm on what was a VERY cold day. Also, a thank you to the accompanying staff and to the range of 8 experts that we met as we toured the site.

Want to follow up on your visit? Students and parents can keep up to date with the work being done at the website for the scheme (www.thefloodhub.co.uk/psr) which has lots of resources to explain the work being done and will keep you up to date on progress.

I can also highly recommend a Minecraft Education mission set up by the Environment Agency NW that accompanies the scheme and allows gamers to try to defend Preston and South Ribble from flooding. You can tour a Minecraft version of our local area too! Search “Minecraft Education Rivercraft”.

Mr Bowles

Curriculum Leader for Geography

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