WELCOME TO YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR

🎯 Freshman Workshops

The focus of Freshman Workshops is on developing skills for cooperation and communication, engaging our creativity and practising speaking and presenting in front of a group. You'll work on a particular topic throughout each term.

Term 1-3:

A Fresh Start on Herta - you'll work together to solve complex problems and develop a sustainable, functioning society on a new planet

Foodpreneurs - you'll be challenged to create a new startup restaurant from scratch, write a business plan and pitch your idea to investors

Newsroom - you'll be working on a newsworthy topic, researching various sources and writing an opinion article for a newspaper called Tomorrow's World

🚀 Freshers' Fair

As part of the workshops, your group will create a project centred around the main theme of each term, and you'll present your project at the Freshers' Fair, a term-closing celebratory event with all Freshman students invited.

💬 Mentoring

Throughout the year, you'll stay in the same group and be taught by same teacher, allowing you to get to know each other very well, to develop deeper connections, and to explore different aspects of working together. To aid this process, you'll meet your main teacher once in each term in a one-to-one setting to discuss your learning experience, and make sure that you make the most of it both academically and personally. 

🚀 Project (part of Discovery Week)

In Freshman year you will have the opportunity to complete a project - a full cycle of planning and implementing one.  Read our dedicated Project Page for a full description of what an Engame project is and what support you can receive through the process. Once you decide to embark on an Engame project, be sure to register for a Project Kick-off session during Discovery Week in term 1 or 3, to help you get started. 

Your project is a great opportunity to experiment with a question or topic you're interested in, develop useful skills, and it can - as it often does for Engamers - feature in your uni application further down the line!

🧩 Skill-Building Workshops (part of Discovery Week)

Each term, we offer a wide range of skill-building workshops focusing on key academic, 21st century and personal skills. You are welcome to sign up to any number of skill workshops during the year. 

🎤 Meet the Expert (part of Discovery Week)

A wide range of Meet the Expert sessions are held in Engame or online, where we invite people with exciting academic and professional backgrounds who love what they do. They share their stories, the dilemmas they faced during their career, and talk about various aspects of jobs they’ve had, giving you great insight into what working in different fields entails to help your orientation.

🏢 Field Trips (during term time)

We organize field trips to a range of exciting places from the coolest startups to high-value multinational companies, and from state and cultural institutions to NGOs. You will get a glimpse into how people work at these organizations and what they do. Come with an open and curious mind - you may learn about areas of work you haven’t considered before for your own future!