Fourteen year eight girls (including me) were presented with a unique opportunity to see engineering in action, at two of London biggest railway stations last week.

 

Did you know that not many girls pursue a career in engineering? It is a shame, because those who do, have a huge array of career options when they qualify and may will find high profile company fighting to recruit them, offering well paid careers.

 

This is only one thing we learnt on our amazing (STEM day), with Network Rail in London.

 

It came about when a Boston High School old girl who works for Network Rail, invited us to spend a day exploring London Euston and Kings cross station-behind the scenes.

 

Network Rail are one of the many company’s crying out to recruit women into engineering. They were enthusiastic in encouraging us to consider what engineering could do for us!

 

We were shown ‘Euston 2’- an ambitious extension serving commuters from the Midlands. We were also given talks on opportunity’s in engineering and all the different things you can do with it in Network Rail alone!

 

We met a woman who has a fascinating career with Network Rail, who recounted how when she was studying engineering at UNI, she was the only woman in a year of more than 100!

 

As we pulled away from London our eyes open and our minds buzzing with the opportunity’s we hadn’t been aware of before, for us girls to pursue an interesting, dynamic and well paid career that would give us a good comfortable life.