Future Minds

This page is intended for parents, carers and teachers of young people who might be interested in learning more about the world of aviation, Air Traffic Control and future career opportunities. Here we explain how we are supporting this through our innovative 'Future Minds' programme.

What is Future Minds?

Our world is an amazing one. We want to inspire and empower young people from all backgrounds to explore the rich and exciting opportunities we experience every day that relate to aviation and STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths).

We aim to do this through Future Minds, our programme designed to offer engaging outreach events, hands-on work experience and engaging STEM and aviation resources for young people aged 4-19.

Why is Future Minds important?

Can we help a child make the connection between an interest in nature to a career in environmental technology? Or playing with Lego or Roblox to being a mechanical or software engineer? Or a fascination with patterns to a job in data science? That’s our goal.

We love being part of an incredible industry with a huge range of roles linked to STEM skills and aviation. We want to spark interest and open eyes to these opportunities and contribute to the future of our industry by inspiring the next generation.

Reaching young people in their early years to prompt their academic decision-making and skills-building will help tackle known skills gaps and positively impact the long-term need for highly capable, diverse talent across the whole industry.

Can my child do work experience?

We can offer work experience placements of up to a week for young people aged 14-19. Students are introduced to the fascinating world of air traffic control and can either focus on a particular area of interest or get a general flavour of various areas, as well as an insight into a professional workplace.

We’re currently developing our application scheme for work experience within a structured programme – please use the ‘Register’ form below if you’d like to know when this is available. In the meantime, we have limited placements available – if you are interested, please get in touch through the ‘Contact us’ form below.

If you are looking for a longer term placement or a junior role, you might be interested in our industrial placements, direct entry graduate roles or apprenticeships.

Do you attend careers talks/events at schools, colleges, universities or other organisations?

We have a large number of passionate STEM Ambassadors among our colleagues. They often volunteer to support local careers fairs and events.

We highly recommend registering all requests on STEM Learning where all registered STEM Ambassadors look for opportunities to support. This will maximise your chances of achieving an exciting event.