Back to school at 38 to study Robotics | Degree Show Stories

"My name's Luke Steppens and I'm a third-year robotics student.

"This is an under-actuated monowheel made to ride a cable. So those cables could be on ground or they could be on space stations, but it's about making sure that the thing travelling along that cable can balance itself or orient itself correctly.

"It's not as heavily book-based as other places, more practical application of what you learn. There's loads of technical skills that I didn't have before coming here, like the CAD skills that I have now that purely just didn't exist before I came here, and I wasn't aware that I was going to enjoy that. And then when that happened, it's something that's my favourite part of it. That and being able to structure projects correctly. These constraints are good. It means I can work within them and create something rather than having all the time in the world, it often kind of works against you.

"I went back to school when I was 38 and just redid my GCSEs. Then I did an access course and then I came here, and yeah, very happy I did it."

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