Why were you chosen to work at CCCU Summer School and can you tell a little bit about the event?

I was chosen to work at the Summer School, organised by the CCCU Outreach team because I have worked with CCCU for 5 years and I often do work for them, as they are one of my biggest clients

Who were you taking photos of and where did you take them?

The CCCU outreach team had organised for a group of children to travel from all over the county to their Canterbury Campus to learn about physics and engineering. The project was created to get children more involved in science at school.

They were especially targeting girls and for this reason, 95% of the attendees were female.  Hopefully, the event will encourage a higher percentage of girls to enter engineering and physics-based industries. There is a government project which is being carried out at the moment to promote science jobs for women, so this worked really well alongside it.

I was really excited to work with an event which was promoting equality between gender in the workplace, proving that jobs are open to all, no matter their sex.

The photos were mainly taken at the CCCU Canterbury campus but there was one day which was spent in Dreamland, Margate, where the children were participating in a range of different activities and bonding exercises.

Who did you help?

I helped CCCU Outreach, but it was mostly for their marketing, as they didn’t have any photos to promote previous summer schools. Therefore, this was meant to promote their summer schools for the next years, improving CCCU’s marketing in the future.

How long was this event?

The event took place over 4 days.

What was your overall opinion of working with the CCCU Outreach team?

The whole week was really fun. I really enjoyed working with the kids, helping out the university and working with a great team.

Did the week change your outlook on educating kids?

It improved my opinion on how much we should be encouraging everybody to be interested in science as well as the arts and more humanistic jobs.  The whole week encouraged equality in the workplace and it really helped to inspire and encourage the kids involved to be whatever they want to be without social restrictions.  This really opened my eyes to the different opportunities out there for future generations.

What was the funniest/ best moment from this experience?

As I was an external photographer and not part of the staff or a brand ambassador, no one knew my name. At the beginning of the week a group of girls came up to me and asked me my name, so I told them to have a guess. They decided to call me Tarquin the Wolf so that remained my nickname for the rest of the event. Kids eh?