The students thoroughly enjoyed themselves and really appreciated how practical and engaging the session was. It was wonderful to see all the year groups in STEM Club getting involved and benefiting from the experience.
Sadia Ali, Mathematics Teacher at Plashet School
15 May 2025
Engaging young Londoners in healthcare technologies
Postgraduate students from King’s College London’s Healthcare Technologies MSc/MRes delivered a series of school engagement sessions to secondary school students across London.
As part of their postgraduate studies, the current Healthcare Technologies cohort delivered sessions that provided an introduction to MedTech, discussed what it’s like to be a robotic surgeon and looked at possible career paths.
These sessions also included interactive demonstrations such as simulating surgical procedures with cardboard organs, a marble run activity to demonstrate gravity, speed and forces and designing using CAD software.
Girls from the Plashet, Newham Secondary School STEM club participated in a hospital game where teams needed to identify problems affecting alien patients, gather symptoms and decide which tests to run.
Year 10 students with Speech, Language and Communication needs from St Marlybone Bridge CE School also engaged in the sessions. Teacher Mona Rehman, Head of Maths & Science said; “The workshop was exciting and students were engaged with the use of real-world Robotic examples which made it more relatable to them.”
The Healthcare Technologies Masters students running the session found them to extremely rewarding and a great opportunity to approach their research in a different way.
I got a lot out of this experience, like confidence in skills like teamwork, planning, and public speaking, as well as knowledge of how to design a workshop to be fun and engaging. Aside from just being a good experience, I can definitely see the skills that I learned from running the session being useful in my future.
Noah Gassas, Healthcare Technologies Masters Student
What I really took away from this was how different it is to communicate complex ideas to a public audience, especially one that’s not familiar with your field. It made me think more creatively—about design, storytelling, and how to make abstract ideas feel relevant. It was also just really rewarding to see how much some of the students got into it.
Varvara Tebieva, Healthcare Technologies Masters Student