The Space Zone was a themed zone supported by the UK Space Agency and featured six engineers:
- Samuel Bancroft works in the tech team at Earth-i and develops code to process data from live satellites
- Robson Witts is an apprentice at Oxford Space Systems and creates deployable satellite structures for the space industry
- Reshma Vora is a product application specialist at NAVBLUE and uses techniques to predict the availability of GPS to help pilots navigate
- Raam Shanker is the founder of Equitus Engineering Ltd, making parts for rockets that are sent to space
- K-Jo O’Flynn, this zone’s winner, is also an apprentice at Oxford Space Systems, where she builds antennas and other space technologies
- Alison Dufresne is a propulsion and systems engineer at Deep Space Industries where she designs and build rocket engines
The students in this zone were keen to hear about the different paths the engineers took to get to their current roles, especially interested in K-Jo and Robson’s experience getting an apprenticeship. K-Jo is the youngest ever winner of I’m an Engineer, and at 17 she was closer in age to the students than to most of the other engineers in the zone. The students engaged well with her and could relate to her more recent experiences.
