Chelsea FC Foundation confirmed as speaker at the 10th EFDN Conference
EFDN is delighted to confirm that Matt Mead, Head of Education at the Chelsea FC Foundation, will be presenting at the 10th EFDN Conference.
Matt Mead will showcase Chelsea FC Foundation’s programme: ”Digital Blue”, highlighting how Chelsea FC is combining football and STEM to help young people to acquire critical STEM related skills, as well as introduce them to exciting STEM-related future careers.
DIGITAL BLUE
The Education Dept at Chelsea FC Foundation have spent the last two and a half years building and delivering STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) programmes for its local community, whilst highlighting the skills needed for tomorrow. The presentation will showcase how we can engage young children in skills related to animation, design, robotics, engineering and coding, all through the lens of football. This has also extended into CFC hackathons (Hackathon: a week long event, in which small tech companies meet to engage in collaborative computer programming) to promote open innovation, problem solving and collaboration to tackle real issues at Chelsea FC and highlight new ways to think and work.
In short, the upcoming presentation will focus on:
- Highlighting how young minds must be equipped with critical STEM related skills for the 21st century.
- Showcasing how Chelsea FC combines football and STEM to expose young people to a variety of exciting STEM careers.
- Evidencing of how a global sporting brand hosts hackathons to promote open innovation and problem solving around fan engagement, smart stadia and e-sports.
MATT MEAD
Matt is currently the Head of Education for Chelsea FC Foundation, who offers a breadth of educational programmes in primary and secondary schools, further education colleges, employability support, business start-up and corporate CSR opportunities. Matt has spent the past four years building a pioneering and innovative staff with dynamic educational programmes from FE sports development, to numeracy and literacy support, PE mentorship, through to sports tech hacks, a business start-up incubator and business club, accountancy qualifications, as well as STEM programmes such as Chelsea Digital Camps and Digital Blue. In recent years, Matt has been able to combine his passion of sports and business, and love for technology to create pioneering STEM programmes in collaboration with global brands such as Apple, Autodesk, VEX Robotics, Wipro, Lynda.com and the San Francisco 49ers Foundation.
We are looking forward to welcoming Matt Mead at Parc des Princes to learn more about incorporating STEM and football in youth development.
