INSPIRATION THROUGH EXHIBITION: SOPHIE HARKER’S JOURNEY TO BECOMING AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER

Sophie Harker, born in London, UK, was unsure of what to do with her life and when she did an online test, her result was to become a fisherman’s wife. She wanted to be anything but an astronaut until she went to Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on a family holiday when she was 16 and watched a film about the future of space exploration and astronauts. After returning to the UK, she enrolled at Space School UK where she met the first British person to ever go into space who suggested she pursue her path in engineering. After her studies, she joined BAE Systems and became one of the youngest engineers to be Chartered Engineer at her age 25 in 2017. “Showing kids real-world applications of engineering is unbelievably important,” she said at an event that is how she became a space engineer.

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