Delivery Partner:
BEAR Scotland

Description:
Four stand-alone lessons will focus on raising awareness of the diversity of different engineering professions and skills required to manage and maintain the trunk roads and bridges in Scotland. BEAR Scotland will showcase the range of different engineering types, give practical experience and insight into designing and building bridges and introduce how we respond to climate change and the increased need for sustainable drainage solutions. Each lesson is complemented with follow on practical and fun challenges for learners to apply their skills and deepen understanding.

Complete one, two, three or all four sessions.

• Session One: BEAR Cub Engineers Skills and Types - The aim of this session is to explore the huge range of
  skills learners are developing and show links to the wide range of different engineering types. Learners will apply
  their learning to the “Who wants to be an Engineer?” challenge and can follow up with their BEAR Cub Skills
  Challenge afterwards.
• Session Two: BEAR Cub Bridge Engineers – This session focuses on engineering bridges and structures
  through providing a presentation showcasing the Forth Bridges and considering design, shape and strength. The
  design process will be introduced to learners before we outline the BEAR Cubs Design Challenge and explore the
  range of jobs and skills required to design and construct the strongest bridge they can. Learners will complete the
  Challenge in teams after the lesson.
• Session Three: BEAR Cub Environmental Engineers (water) – This aims to provide knowledge and
  understanding about road drainage and the ways we manage water to protect our environment, landscape and
  keep vehicles moving. Climate change and more extreme weather means this is more important than ever.
  Learners follow up by designing and creating water drainage solutions.
• Session Four: BEAR Cub SUDS Engineers – Gaining knowledge and understanding of urban and natural
  landscapes, learners find out about sustainable urban drainage solutions, gain understanding what they are, why
  they are required and the range of professions involved. Learners follow up with outdoor learning, creating a map
  of their playground, understanding scale and perspective and then designing a SUDs solution for their playground,
  local area etc.

September - December 2026 Sessions:

BEAR Cub Engineer Skills and Types

BEAR Cub Structures and Bridges

BEAR Cub Environmental Engineers

BEAR Cub SUDs Environ Engineers

DYW Context:
Engineering has many different career paths and a huge list of applicable skills. This course aims to highlight this diversity to learners and provide practical and relatable examples for learners to grasp how engineering applies in their world and across many different businesses and disciplines.

Certificate:
Your learners can receive their own Certificate of Achievement signed by Ollie Bray for attending our sessions. All they need to do is complete the learner's feedback form which will be put in the chat at the end of every session. The certificate will include their name and the course they attended, and will be sent to their Glow email (and the Teacher's if filled in). Please note these must be completed individually by learners and unfortunately cannot be filled out on behalf of the whole class by the Teacher.

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