Professor Lisa Looney:

What is really important to students in those years is the excitement around STEM. It is very stressful to be a 14- or 15-year-old and to be expected to have some idea of what you want to do because that is not where you are in your own head. A very small minority of young people have a very clear path. That has probably been set back even earlier and a fair will not change that. I am not sure the fair-type format speaks to where students might be at that stage of their career, but getting across what STEM delivers, its importance, the excitement around it and taking opportunities to enhance what might be happening from Monday to Friday in a classroom through various mechanisms is important.