More than 80 female students from secondary schools across Huntingdonshire visited Alconbury Weald last week for an event designed to highlight the wide range of career paths and opportunities for young women in the world of development, construction, property and the buiding environment.
Alconbury Weald master developer, Urban&Civic, organised the Make Your Mark event to inspire young women to pursue a career in the development industry by showcasing some of the diverse roles and skills needed to create a sustainable communities.
The students involved were from Year 9 at St Ivo Academy, Hinchingbrooke School, Sawtry Village Academy and St Peter's School and were given an introduction and tour of the development including the future phases, which have not yet started.
They also had the chance to try out at working through all the things needed to think about when creating attractive, healthy and sustainable places to live.
The exercise to design their own new community used a bespoke software platform that helped them consider everything from design and planning as well as sustainability and ecology, to delivering community facilities, working with listed buildings and planning for climate change.
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