TECHNOLOGY-MINDED students from Poole Grammar School will attend taster courses at top universities to help them decide on possible future careers.

All five applicants won places on the residential university courses run by the Headstart charitable trust with the aim of providing hands-on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) activities and engineering courses.

The Year 12 students will take part in the courses during the summer holiday.

The school’s head of design technology, Andy Dallimore, said: “The design and technology department is glad to have been able to support the pupils in their application and hope this fuels their desire to become engineers of the future. “The school is happy to financially support these boys in their career aspirations.”

Johnny Currell will attend the marine engineering course at Southampton University. Alex McCormick will take up a place on the broad-based engineering course at Bristol University and Liam Wandowski will take a similar course at Plymouth university.

Tim Belchamber will do engineering at the University of Exeter and Kyran Yeatman at Warwick University.

Headstart has been established for 16 years and gives young people the opportunity to attend top university courses run by inspirational leaders.

The aim is to give them an insight into the exciting career opportunities in engineering.