WELCOME TO YOUR JUNIOR YEAR

🎯 Seminars

We offer two main types of these in Junior year, Introductory and Field-specific seminars, both with a distinctive aim to support your academic orientation and help you build your profile for your university application.

Introductory seminars are offered in six broad academic areas, to provide you with an insight into larger subject areas as a start of a deeper engagement with the field(s) that you are considering for your future studies. They are meant as tasters for you to experience what studying a particular field would be like at university level. We have these as recurring items on our Seminar menu in Term 1 and Term 3, enabling you to engage with more than one wider field over the year - may this be because you need more input for your orientation, or because your interest lies at the intersection of two fields. Space permitting, you will also be able to register for two seminars in the same term if you choose our Fast Track option.

Field-specific seminars (in Term 2, 3 and 4) focus on more niche and specific areas, allowing you to delve deeper and develop a more thorough understanding of topic and its application. They tend to cover contemporary academic discussions rather than linear or historical totality, with activities that help you build relevant skills required for the study of the field.

💬 Mentoring

Mentoring in Junior year has a specific purpose to support your orientation and profile building, allowing you to discuss the fields you currently have in mind for your future studies / career. You will be paired with a professional who has a background in the field you are considering, and meet twice in each term. With support and guidance from your mentor, you'll look into possible study fields more deeply, find answers to your questions and dilemmas, and start collecting specific relevant experiences that you'll be able to use in your university application. 

🚀 Project (part of Discovery Week)

In Junior 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!