Year 10 explore careers of the future at cyber skills event

9 February 2025

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As part of Lancashire Cyber Festival Education Week 2025, a group of Year 10 pupils was invited to attend the Cyber Skills and Careers Day at Cardinal Newman College.

This event, which took place on Tuesday, 4 February, was run by Lancashire Cyber Partnership (LCP) and designed to transform the way students think about careers in Computing & ICT.
The Lancashire Cyber Festival Education Week saw a range of fun and engaging activities taking place across the county. Its aim was to inspire and enable young people to understand the potential cyber related career pathways open to them and highlight the county’s once in a generation cyber opportunity brought by the National Cyber Force Headquarters being established in the county.

Head of ICT & Computing, Mrs Qadri, said, “The goal of these events is to reach students at a pivotal moment in their education to change their perspectives on Computing & ICT and to inspire the next generation of cyber-professionals.”

The event hoped to spark pupils’ interest in technology and cyber careers whilst they explored the latest innovations in areas including AI, cyber security, data science and robotics Pupils could also investigate wider topics including languages, psychology and maths whilst hearing from inspirational leaders in STEM. Meanwhile education professionals were on hand to discuss potential training and career options in the sector.

Year 10 Holly P reported, “At Newman College we learnt about how many future jobs can link into computing. In the first session we got the chance to use professional websites to try and find out about what a group of criminals were going to do, like decrypting code and searching images to find a secret meanings and messages for those who were in the group. We also used a website to recognise where abouts a picture was taken so we could narrow the potential area where they were based. In the second session we got the chance to code a game on C#. After lunch we went to our last session where we tried to get an AI robot to give us the secret password. The visit has opened my eyes about computers and learning about computers while having fun. Doing a career you love can help change the world and almost every job will have something to do with computers and evolving technology.“