Club Recruitment

As you should be aware the LEP has set aims to encourage more girls, more BME students and more students with no family history of higher education to consider engineering as a career and highlight the benefits. Through the clubs we aim to achieve this by making a focused effort to encourage these three student groups to join the Science and Engineering club. Here are some good practice suggestions to recruit these two student groups into your club.

• In mixed schools hold an all girl assembly to show how females can be engineers and how they are playing an very important role in engineering our future.
• Aim to try and make your club 50/50 boys/girls to ensure girls have the same learning environment as boys.
• Use female role models such as ambassadors or SEA’s as much as you can. For example to take the all girl assembly.
• If possible (Time and resource permitting) offer to run a girl only club with activities that would interest girls more than boys.
• Use BME role models such as ambassadors or SEA’s as much as you can. Also for example to take an assembly.
• Make sure any images used in your own posters/leaflets/presentations have a good mix girl and BME engineers/students. The poster and leaflets supplied have been approved by the UK Resource Centre for Women.
• If you have female or BME members of staff in the school who are interested in helping out with the club, ask them to speak with students and act as a recognised role model for the club.
• On top of the leaflets given out to students, send a leaflet and covering letter to students parents that you think would benefit from being involved in the club.
• With permission from higher management, during your parents or open evening, set up a small stand promoting the club and encourage parents to find out what goes on in your club sessions.
• Also with permission from higher management, hold a short activity session during your schools year 6 introduction day. Many students moving up from primary school may have been involved in a Science and Engineering club.
• Whenever talking/promoting the club avoid giving the impression engineering is a “boy thing” or a “smelly, dirty job” or any of the other cliché’s it is mostly considered to be. Always promote it as a positive and don’t talk about the negative aspects of engineering

Speak with other work colleagues to see if they could make any student recommendations for the club. For example students they think would benefit from the club or would find the club as an alternative educational route