Gloucestershire-based Renishaw hosted a STEM insight day for students from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.

To encourage these students to explore careers in engineering, the global engineering technology company has collaborated with Bristol Future Talent Partnership (BFTP) to host a science, engineering, technology and maths (STEM) insight day.

The event offered a group of year 12 and 13 students the opportunity to visit Renishaw, take part in hands-on activities and discover the diverse range of roles available in STEM-related industries.

The group of students took part in a range of interactive sessions, including a sustainability workshop, a mini science experiment and a coding workshop.

The activities provided them with valuable insights into the range of disciplines in engineering, while allowing them to apply engineering skills to hands-on activities.

Renishaw also showcased its early careers opportunities to highlight the range of roles available in a science and engineering-based businesses, including apprenticeships and graduate placements.

Rebecca Bound, early careers STEM outreach officer at Renishaw, said: "Providing students from black and minority ethnic backgrounds the opportunity to explore STEM careers is pivotal in increasing diversity in the sector. Exposure to STEM and engineering activities allows them to explore the range of skills and tasks they could face in a future career and realise that it is a more diverse career path."

Kirsten Hambly, partnership and engagement manager at BFTP, said: "It's great to have Renishaw as one of our partner organisations helping us to deliver our programmes. The partnership is a collaboration of likeminded individuals and businesses, all working to make Bristol a fairer and more racially equal place to study and work, with a particular focus on providing talented young people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds with education and employment opportunities."

Renishaw has partnered with BFTP for more than two years, providing STEM insight days for young people from Bristol.

Black and ethnically diverse people in Bristol face the seventh worst levels of multiple inequalities in England and Wales, including education and employment. BFTP aims to make Bristol the fairest and most racially equal place to study and work in the UK.

The company works with young people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds aged 14 to 21 to remove barriers, raise aspirations and provide talent with opportunity, through high quality work experience opportunities.