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Tarmac lay foundations for engineers of future
SIXTH form pupils from Lady Manners School are celebrating having successfully negotiated the final hurdle of a six-month engineering project.
The team of Tom Harrison, Thomas Hoare, Jack Hodgson and Florence Knight successfully completed the presentation and assessment of their project which had been undertaken with mentoring company Tarmac Ltd.
The team had to investigate and submit a business proposal to upgrade the intra-site transport of limestone powders at a local quarry.
The pupils were grilled by a panel of experts at a celebration and assessment day after which they were presented with certificates acknowledging their success in the Engineering Education Scheme. They can also achieve the prestigious BA Crest Award at Gold Standard for their work on the project.
The students were taking part in the Engineering Education Scheme which enables a team of students to work on an engineering project devised by their partner company. The project is designed to be of real value to the company and the student engineers have the experience of tackling the project in an industry environment.
The EES is delivered by the Engineering Development Trust (EDT), and funded by East Midlands Development Agency (emda) through its 6 million STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths) initiative.
Geoff Jellis from the Engineering Development Trust said: "Standards were very high and the quality of the teams presenting at the assessment day shows the strength of the scheme.
"The participating companies keep their eyes open for talented students and more than a few EES students have finished up working with the company they partnered on their EES project."
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