“ We opened the age range up because we got a lot of inquiries from people who were in their 30s and 40s asking whether it was open to them or if they needed to be 18 to 21,” John shares.“ The whole point of the STACK Academy is to target the harder to reach groups, the people who might not have the opportunities.
“ I’ m really trying to push this into European and UK public policy and the schools’ curriculum. If we can’ t get to people at school age, it’ s a futile battle – we’ re going to be constantly fighting this war of attrition.
“ We need to educate the educators as well as reaching out to parents. We’ re really trying to accelerate and push the outreach to people who don’ t have opportunities. I want everybody to have the opportunity – whatever gender, social background, ethnic background you have – to come and work for us and come into the data centre industry.”
In a bid to embed data centre education across Europe, STACK partners with the likes of go-tec! STEM lab in Schaffhausen, just outside Zurich
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