Ada Lovelace CofE High School To Collaborate with IBM
Announcement made on day to honour polymath after whom school is named
School will be using the P-Tech model to provide students with a career path
Ada Lovelace CofE High School has announced a new collaboration with technology giant IBM. The school in Ealing will be working with the company to offer students the innovative Pathways in Technology programme, or P-TECH.
The collaboration was launched at the school’s inaugural Founder’s Day event on Tuesday 12 October which is Ada Lovelace Day. The school organised a series of keynote speeches, student workshops and activities on the theme of ‘Our Digital Futures’. Representatives from IBM also ran a series of workshops and panel discussions with students.
Established by IBM and local educators in New York in 2011, the P-TECH model aims to provide students with a career path in today’s increasingly digitised economy. Designed to increase accessibility and inclusion to learning digital and professional competencies, the school hopes that more young people will be able to builds skills required to succeed in the future.
Dame Alice Hudson, Executive Head Teacher, said about the Twyford CofE Academies Trust involvement with P-TECH, ‘We are delighted to be working with IBM on programmes to prepare students to be super-employable in an increasingly digital workplace. We share IBM’s vision of challenging young people to be agile and creative in applying skills to the job roles and challenges of the future’.
Ada Lovelace CofE High School offers its students a curriculum with a specialist focus on Computing and Digital Technologies. The school aims to develop both technical expertise and creative applications and encourages students to Make the Leap, as Ada Lovelace herself did.
Ada Lovelace staff on Founder's Day
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October 14, 2021