The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Skills service wins gold award - again
Staff at a skills brokerage are celebrating after the service won Gold at an international awards ceremony for the second year running. The Skills Service, which covers Peterborough, Fenland, Rutland, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk, was praised for inspiring young people to choose science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and to pursue careers in these areas.
The award is for the Mis- sion Possible Week campaign, which was a week of STEM focused activities last July, which aimed to raise aspirations and showcase career options.
The service has won a Gold Global Best Award for Europe from the International education business Partnership Network (IPN) jointly with the Conference Board of Canada.
It celebrates outstanding partnerships between educational institutions, private businesses and others that enhance youth employ ability.
The Skills Service is delivered by Opportunity Peterborough( OP) and funded by the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
Steve Bowyer, chief executive of OP, said: “It is an incredible achievement to win this award for a second time and gain recognition for our skills work on a global scale.”
Sue Addison, Skills Lead for OP, who will be presented with the a war data conference in Norway in September, said: “Mission Possible Week was an enormous success and we were delighted to have Amber Gell, a NASA scientist, with us to support the events.
She added: “Students couldn’t fail to be inspired by her talks about making a career in science.”