A Successful First In-Person Event at Dulwich College

Engineer Your Vision held its first in-person event this year in collaboration with Dulwich College, as part of the College’s Black History Month celebrations. The event took place within a wider programme themed Resilience and Commitment, which encouraged students across the school to reflect on perseverance, identity, and the importance of active engagement within their communities.

As part of the BLM programme, Engineer Your Vision partnered with Dulwich College for the SSLP Collaboration Day, a full-day conference bringing together Year 12 and 13 students from Dulwich College and the Southwark Schools Learning Partnership. The event featured keynote talks, interactive workshops, and a design challenge judged by industry professionals, creating an environment where students could engage directly with engineering and STEM in a practical and collaborative way.

Central to the event was the opportunity for students to work alongside and learn from Black professionals and innovators in STEM. These interactions allowed students to hear first-hand experiences, ask questions, and gain insight into potential pathways, while reflecting on how resilience and commitment shape careers in technical fields. As a predominantly student-designed and student-led initiative, the event reflected Engineer Your Vision’s wider aim of building spaces where students learn through shared experience and dialogue rather than instruction alone.

The Collaboration Day sat alongside a broader range of student-led Black History Month activities at Dulwich College, including academic talks, creative projects, music workshops, and assemblies delivered by pupils across year groups. Together, these initiatives highlighted the growing role students play in shaping meaningful conversations around identity, representation, and achievement within the school community.

We would like to specifically thank Dulwich College for facilitating the event as well as the Imperial College ACS, The Association for Black and Ethnic Minority Engineers and the DT department for their workshops throughout the day as well as accomplished keynote speakers Zainab Adigun and George Okorie for sharing their perspectives on the progressive world of engineering and modern day industry.

The success of this first in-person event marked an important milestone for Engineer Your Vision. It demonstrated the value of collaboration with schools, the impact of student-led programming, and the potential for future events that continue to bring students together around engineering, learning, and community.