Opportunities that north-east pupils have to learn about careers in the oil and gas industry must be extended across Scotland, according to the Youth Employment Minister Angela Constance.
Scientists have proposed an amazing system of mirrors, processed lunar soil and a heat engine to provide energy to vehicles and crew during the lunar night.
Secondary school students across Scotland will now be able to get their hands on an exciting new interactive hands-on science kit focused on the role carbon capture and storage (CCS) can play in helping to meet the future energy challenge.
A group of 35 students are working in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen and StudentEnergy to create the first European Student Energy Summit.
Aberdeen may be synonymous with the oil and gas boom but for many young people the opportunities in the lucrative and ever-changing energy sector can seem as distant as an offshore rig.
No such thing exists at the Department of Energy & Climate Change here in the UK, however, the US Energy Department has just awarded nearly $5million to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing nuclear engineering and science degrees.
Centrica Energy says that its oil and gas engineers, whatever their discipline, have the chance to develop careers for life through early exposure to projects - both on and offshore - and opportunities to progress into senior and specialised roles.
Ace Winches, the north-east Scottish deck machinery specialists, is helping to promote engineering studies at a north-east school with the gift of a re-furbished industrial container to Alford Academy’s Young Engineers Club.
Around 50 oil and gas students from across Europe will take part in an industry competition at the Offshore Europe exhibition in Aberdeen later this year.
A total of £15,000 has been awarded to students in Scotland by the Society of Petroleum Engineers Aberdeen Section as part of its 2012-13 bursary programme.
Pupils from Cults Academy have triumphed in the north-east heat of an online competition which sees pupils around the world take on the role of oil barons.
The topic for December is Tidal energy about which there has been loads and loads of stuff in the media of late. Tidal energy is seen as an important new resource that Scotland has loads of.