A Digital Skills Lab for Merseyside for Everton in the Community
Everton in the Community is one of the UK's top sporting charities. The charity's work is vast and includes: providing routes into education, training & employment and steering young people towards a brighter future.
E-STEAM is an initiative by Everton in the Community that seeks to engage and inspire communities, young, and old in the amazing world of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths. It has been developed in response to the changing landscape of an industry that is moving towards an increased digital and technological presence and with the gap between the skills young people learn and the skills people need becoming more obvious.
1200+
Students Inspired
65+
Schools have taken part
40+
Staff trained in STEAM
We created a Digital Skills Lab to bring young people, who would never have dreamed to take up STEAM subjects, to get them inspired
— Sue GregoryCEO Everton in the Community
Bringing a state-of-the-art learning space to life
EITC approached CreativeHUT as a partner to help deliver the lab as part of the E-STEAM project, funded by a group of philanthropists known as the First STEAM Squad.
So far, the programme has engaged more than 1,200 students from 63 different schools across Merseyside. This number is set to grow significantly now the lab is open to run sessions regularly. There was no time wasted as they celebrated 'International Day of Women and Girls in Science' with a day of action to tackle a major gender gap in the industry.
With major companies and industry professionals in attendance, John Whitfield, the Digital Training Business Partner at AstraZeneca said “AstraZeneca are immensely proud to be partnering with Everton in the Community and are excited to be supporting the ‘International Day of Women and Girls in Science’ event at Goodison Park. We are looking forward to collaborating on further events in 2023, and helping to ensure we are supporting STEM in the heart of our community.” showing that the impact and purpose of the lab has a very bright future ahead.
It's already a game-changer...
So far, the programme has engaged more than 1,200 students from 63 different schools across Merseyside. This number is set to grow significantly now the lab is open to run sessions regularly. There was no time wasted as they celebrated 'International Day of Women and Girls in Science' with a day of action to tackle a major gender gap in the industry.
With major companies and industry professionals in attendance, John Whitfield, the Digital Training Business Partner at AstraZeneca said “AstraZeneca are immensely proud to be partnering with Everton in the Community and are excited to be supporting the ‘International Day of Women and Girls in Science’ event at Goodison Park. We are looking forward to collaborating on further events in 2023, and helping to ensure we are supporting STEM in the heart of our community.” showing that the impact and purpose of the lab has a very bright future ahead.
We met the EITC Team to understand their goals for engaging the schools they work with in STEAM education to help bridge the skills gap in the UK.
Design
Listen
The EITC team were very keen to create a physical home for learning via some form of 'wow-factor' skills lab, which enables them to bring together schools, adults, businesses and the whole community.
Deliver
Expertise
CreativeHUT liaised with the architect and building contractor teams to help advise on the functionality and the look & feel of the space, which involved construction work and bespoke project/storage furniture for 3 x main classroom spaces.
We are incredibly honoured to support Everton in the Community and its E-STEAM Programme. Seeing the passion from the charity, along with the support from industry and the First Steam Squad, has been a humbling experience for CreativeHUT and our partners
