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July
2018.
The Secondary Engineer® ‘Fluid Power Challenge’ To Be Extended to Cambridgeshire

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Webtec Products Limited

Nuffield Road

St. Ives

Cambridgeshire

PE27 3LZ  UK

www.webtec.com

 

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England & Wales

 

 

The Secondary Engineer®‘Fluid Power Challenge' To Be Extended to Cambridgeshire Schools

 

Martin Cuthbert, WEBTEC's MD, appreciating the robot arm built by pupils
from King Edward VII College, Leicestershire at this year's CEA Plantworx

Please download the hi-res imagehere

 

 

The successful national programme, The Secondary Engineer® Fluid Power Challenge, which aims to attract secondary school pupils into engineering is being launched into schools in Cambridgeshire and East Anglia.

 

The project is set to run during 2018/19 and aims to introduce over 200 14-year olds to the fun and challenge of building a pick and place robot arm using low cost materials and fluid power principles.

 

Fluid Power Challenge is run by the not-for-profit Primary Engineer Programmes®and is supported by many companies including WEBTEC and Cambridgeshire Hydraulics, as well as numerous trade associations including British Fluid Power Association (BFPA), British Compressed Air Society (BCAS), and Construction Equipment Association (CEA).

 

The Secondary Engineer® Fluid Power Challenge is a pneumatics and hydraulics systems project which gives schools the opportunity to engage in basic engineering principles and concepts, using readily available materials to design and build working systems. Not only does this support the study of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) in a practical manner but allows pupils and teachers the opportunity to work with engineers in the classroom and compete against teams from other schools.

 

Teachers from secondary schools in East Anglia area will be invited to attend a one-day practical training course, to be hosted by WEBTEC on 18th July 2018, at the company's St Ives manufacturing facility. Engineers from WEBTEC and other local companies will be partnering schools and supporting teachers on the training day and after with pupils in the classroom.

 

Martin Cuthbert WEBTEC's Managing Director commented on the project, "the Fluid Power Challenge is well named; this initiative has the power to inspire the engineers of tomorrow, to let children have fun building a real-life robot arm and at the same time connect industry and schools during the learning journey. We are delighted to support the Fluid Power Challenge as we urgently need to attract the next generation of engineers and all credit to the Primary Engineer team for making this possible".

 

WEBTEC is dedicated to increasing the knowledge and skills of its employees, customers and the wider community and this latest sponsorship strengthens its commitment to the next generation of engineers along with its support of programmes such as the Arkwright Scholarship Trust and Engineering Education Scheme.

 

Further information can be found at the Secondary Engineer website at www.secondaryengineer.com

 

 

 

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About Webtec

Webtec is a hydraulic measurement and control company that designs, manufactures and distributes a world-class range of hydraulic components and hydraulic test equipment for the mobile and industrial machinery markets. Webtec has over 50 years' experience in the fluid power industry and specialises in high-pressure control valves and flow measurement. The company, whose headquarters are based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK is privately owned and employs around 50 people in the UK, France, HK and North America.

 

For additional information on Webtec please visit our web site: www.webtec.com

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For questions regarding this press release please contact June Hulme, Gemini Marketing, on 07712 654009 or 01270 872315 or emailjunehulme@geminimarketing.co.uk

 

For questions regarding images please contact Sam Thompson, Webtec, on 01480 397442 or

emailmarketing@webtec.com

 

 

About Primary Engineer

Primary Engineer is a not-for-profit organisation that has developed, over the past 12 years, an engineering curriculum that includes teacher CPD and Master's-level professional development, inspiring engineering classroom projects, competitions and exhibitions.

Programmes include Early Years Engineer, Primary Engineer, Secondary Engineer, Leaders Award (across England), Scottish Engineering Leaders Award, Institution of Primary Engineers, Institution of Secondary Engineers and PG Cert Engineering STEM (Masters Level Course). Primary Engineer is a national programme based in Burnley with offices in Glasgow and Canterbury, and is supported by a range of government and industry partners and trade associations.

 

For more information Tel Victoria Lane - Operations Director on 01282 417333 email: Victoria.lane@primaryengineer.com

www.primaryengineer.com;www.secondaryengineer.com;www.leadersaward.com

 

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