A TASTE of what a career in the cyber industry would be like was on the timetable when school pupils spent the day at Worcester University.
The Nunnery Wood High School pupils got hands-on with virtual reality and artificial intelligence, while learning about cyber security and taking on interactive challenges.
The sessions were delivered by IN4 Group as part of CyberFirst, a government funded initiative from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ.
CyberFirst aims to encourage a diverse range of young people to explore careers in the cyber sector, and these sessions show students how a range of skills play important roles in the industry.
Brad Dowling from IN4 Group said: “Everyone can bring different talents and different ways of thinking to the table. There are language skills, team leadership, emotional intelligence and empathy, and project management skills, it’s all required to make a tech firm work.
“What we’re doing is about opening these young people’s eyes to that and helping them to realise that they could actually work in this industry.”
Richard Wilkinson, the university’s head of computing, added: “I asked at the start of the day how many of these youngsters had even been to a university campus before, and the vast majority said they hadn’t been in a setting like this.
“Today is a chance for these children to see places like our Cyber Lab and see how accessible all of this is and how university and a career in the tech industry could be for them.”
