Test Valley students to meet engineering ambassadors
The event aims to encourage students to apply for engineering apprenticeships.
Students from schools in Test Valley will meet engineering ambassadors at a careers event in Stockbridge, Hampshire today.
The students attending EBP South’s Get Inspired event at the Army Flying Museum on Thursday, March 24, will meet STEM ambassadors to learn about careers in engineering as part of the Rotor Challenge.
The challenge was created especially for students by local retired engineers whose group is called Hands On the Future (HOTF).
Peter Mucci, one of the founders of HOTF, said: “We are so pleased to return to careers’ fairs with our Rotor Challenge. It perplexes us that many people in government and education seem blind to the need to teach hands-on skills in schools and colleges.
“Fellow engineers and our academic friends in universities know that hands-on skills will remain vital and will work in partnership with the development of future machines and AI.
"Unfortunately, governments have encouraged schools and colleges to replace their workshops with computer studios.”
Alan Tricklebank, the third founder of HOTF who lives in Shirley, said: “The appearances of the Rotor Challenge at the 2019 EBP South, Get Inspired events at Beaulieu and Southampton Guildhall were a great success.
"For many taking it, this was clearly a novel and memorable experience of a practical, realistic activity involving precise measurement and fitting.”
The event aims to encourage students to apply for engineering apprenticeships where they can develop the hands-on skills necessary within industry and manufacturing.
The Rotor Challenge will also be on show at EBP South’s Get Inspired event at Solent University in Southampton on May 12.
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