Red Helix, a leading UK cybersecurity managed service provider, has launched an innovative coding club for primary school children that will provide them with additional exposure to the real world applications of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The goal of this project is to start addressing the chronic shortage of cyber skills in the UK and encourage more diversity in the sector, with a specific focus on aiding social mobility. This will be achieved by targeting the programme at children from primary schools with higher pupil premium rates.
The club is initially being run for Year 5 and 6 students from Elmhurst School in Aylesbury, an Academy of the Great Learners Trust, with the intent to further their interest of STEM from an early age. It will run for six weeks over the summer term and will see its participants create their own, personalised infinity mirrors with a coded control system activating different colours on the LED lights running along the outside of the mirror.
Red Helix believes that by providing children with new learning opportunities and additional insight to the practical applications of STEM, it can help them unlock a new passion – and ultimately provide a long-term boost to the cybersecurity sector.
“There is a pressing need for more cybersecurity skills in the UK,” said Marion Stewart, CEO, Red Helix. “As security providers, we have a responsibility to address this, not only now, but looking towards the future as well.”
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