Visit fires up zeal for engineering careers

Students were challenged to solve engineering problems when interns from a major company visited Central Bedfordshire University Technical College.
By The Newsroom
Published 9th Nov 2013, 08:00 BST
Lockheed Martin Engineering Intern Alex Mason demonstrates the capabilities of the Statapault to the Yr. 10 students.Lockheed Martin Engineering Intern Alex Mason demonstrates the capabilities of the Statapault to the Yr. 10 students.
Lockheed Martin Engineering Intern Alex Mason demonstrates the capabilities of the Statapault to the Yr. 10 students.

The interns from Lockheed Martin UK’s Ampthill site were at the UTC in Houghton Regis as part of the company’s outreach programme.

They were encouraging 100 Bedfordshire students to find out more about a career in engineering. The challenges included the ‘statapault’ exercise, which involved modifying a wooden launcher to fire rubber balls into different sized bowls to earn points.

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The challenge was based on Lockheed Martin’s involvement on a number of engineering projects and the research that is carried out at the Ampthill site, where employee numbers have grown by around 300 over the past 18 months. However, as a whole the UK is not producing enough science and engineering graduates.

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