Quick Links:
Education Amabassadors
Why become an ICE Ambassador?
Learn More
Table 3 - Support Information for Ambassadors
Table 4 - Additional Ambassador Resources
Education Ambassadors
ICE Yorkshire and Humber works with STEMNET and Construction Skills to promote Civil Engineering to young people. One of the most successful ways we are able to achieve this is by working in schools and our Regional Education Team has a proven track record of delivering exciting, educational activities in school, dating back to 1998. If school visits are not your cup of tea, there are many other ways you can help to promote Civil Engineering, such as becoming involved with many of the Regional ICE Committees, the Branch Committee or our Special Interest Groups.
Obviously you will be aware that there is ongoing concern about society’s perception of civil engineers and the numbers of new professionals entering our industry. The future of civil engineering and society’s perceptions rests with the current generation!
Why become an ICE Ambassador?
• Be a better engineer:
• Work with professionals with different expertise from other organisations
• Enhance your networking and communication skills
• Build your confidence
• Further your professional development:
• Planning skills
• Organisation skills
• Problem-solving
• Time management
• Proactive creative thinking
• People management
Involvement in such activities are part of your Continuing Professional Development and if you are working to become a qualified member you may even be able to satisfy one or more parts of Development Objectives.
• Enthuse about engineering:
• Show how science, maths and technology relate to everyday life
• Demonstrate that engineering needs dynamic young people with wide-ranging skills and abilities
• Encourage more young people to study science and maths and pursue science and engineering careers
• Improve educational achievement in science and maths subjects
AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF VOLUNTEERING YOUR TIME IS THE ‘FEEL GOOD FACTOR’ ONE EXPERIENCES FROM SEEING STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM YOUR INVOLVEMENT.
Learn More
Membership of the Education Team is open to members of all grades so, if becoming involved in this initiative interests you, please take time to review the additional information accessed via the links below. These give information about: becoming an Ambassador; our current Activity Diary to give you a flavour of the events we are hoping to support; the Ambassador Registration Form; ICE’s Education Policy and the range of activities we can deliver.
The above documents should be self explanatory and, whilst appearing to give a lot of information, will not take long to read.
ICE fully supports the SEA scheme (details at the first link - also accessed here) and encourages all volunteers to register to gain maximum benefit from a Criminal Record Bureau’s (CRB) Disclosure process (ensuring no previous history of child related offences). Additional benefits include personal liability insurance cover of up to £5M and training via SETPOINT (one day) or ConstructionSkills (two days). There are no costs associated with either of the courses or the CRB process, upon the understanding that ICE Ambassadors take part in at least two activities per year as “repayment” for this free training.
| Table 4 |
Additional Ambassadors Resources |
| If you are an existing Ambassador, you will be able to download many additional resources by following the hyperlinked text in the table below. If you have any difficulties in accessing any of the information please contact a member of the Regional Support Team (at the Contact Us Area). |
| Ambassadors Expenses Form |
All Ambassadors are entitled to claim for any expenses they incur as part of an educational visit to a school. You may download this and return the completed form to the Regional Education Coordinator for processing |
| Notification of an Educational Visit |
Many Ambassadors undertake promotional work for their organisations and ICE commends this sort of activity. We would like to keep track of the schools our Ambassadors are visiting in this way and they type of activity they are undertaking. By recording these, we can ensure we minimise duplication of events and activities at the same schools but also more importantly for Ambassadors, you get to record the time you have spent against the ICE Activity Diary, logging time for you and your organisation to be taken into account at the end of the school year Regional Education Team Awards! |
| Briefing Notes for Ambassadors |
| A series of Briefing Notes has been developed specifically for Ambassadors to assist with the delivery of activities and provide step by step instructions for a range of activities. To request specific Briefing Notes from those listed in the table below, simply click on the link to the right of the relevant Briefing Note. A message will be sent confirming your request and you will receive the desired Briefing Note by return. |
| Car Park Activity |
Click here to request this Briefing Note |
| Giant Tetrahederon |
Click here to request this Briefing Note |
| INPUT Tube Rolling |
Click here to request this Briefing Note |
| INPUT Bridges |
Click here to request this Briefing Note |
| INPUT Greek Temple |
Click here to request this Briefing Note |
| Wembley Stadium Arch |
Click here to request this Briefing Note |
| |
More to follow... |
More Information will be produced in the coming weeks and we hope to eventually include some of the acutal activities here also. Keep your eyes on this space! In the meantime, if there is anything else you would like to be available in this area of the Education Section, please drop us a line and we will consider your request.
|
