WPI aids N. Ireland STEM efforts
Where does Northern Ireland turn when it looks to develop the next generation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals? Worcester.
Northern Ireland employment and education leaders, in their continuing efforts to build the technology economy in that part of the United Kingdom, have partnered with Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to help with a series of new initiatives, WPI announced Thursday.
As part of the effort, eight high school-age students from Northern Ireland are participating in a WPI summer program that offers high school students the opportunity to participate in robotics, engineering exploration, global sustainability or the Women’s Leadership Academy.
The students’ visit is an outgrowth of an ongoing relationship between WPI and Northern Ireland, which began in January when school officials participated in the State Department’s inaugural Partnership Opportunity Delegation in Northern Ireland, WPI said.
Justin Kerr, a member of the Skills Policy Branch of the Department for Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland, noted that Northern Ireland officials want to create 20,000 new STEM jobs by 2020.
“We know it’s ambitious, but we want to set our sights high,” Kerr said in a statement. “To have the economy that we want, we need to have these types of STEM jobs.”
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