Aviation-themed STEM hub opens in the UK
Boeing helps support creating new opportunities for young people to enjoy immersive STEM learning.
Boeing apprentices take part in opening ceremony. (Alexander Newton photos)
The UK’s South West has become home to a new Boeing-supported Mobile Newton Room at one of the UK’s top Further Education colleges.
The mobile classroom, with three table-top flight simulators will provide a unique experience for visiting students and teachers, giving them the opportunity to explore, use high-quality equipment, collaborate, discuss, and have fun with STEM subjects.
The Mobile Newton Room builds on Boeing’s long-standing presence in the UK’s South West region and the recently opened Boeing Bristol facility, home to Boeing Defence UK and a workforce of over 700 employees.
This new addition will help to inspire and build STEM-related careers within the UK’s important South West aerospace hub.
“We are proud of our UK-based Newton collaborations to date and recognize the importance of like-minded partners such as Weston College and FIRST Scandinavia in nurturing the next generation of scientists, engineers and aviators,” said Maria Laine, president of Boeing in the UK, Ireland and Nordic region. “Boeing is currently exploring the provision of apprenticeship courses with Weston College, and this Newton Room will ignite the start of an important partnership between our two organisations to support our future talent pipeline.”
The concept, which originated in Norway, sees North Somerset as the latest in a network of Boeing-sponsored Newton Rooms across Europe. The UK’s first Newton Flight Academy was opened in Scotland at Glasgow Science Centre in 2022 followed by Newton South Yorkshire which opened in Rotherham in January 2024.
