A flying start for budding engineers
Published Date:
08 May 2008
By Michael Youds
AIRBUS has teamed up with Careers Wales to bring the theory of plane-making to life for budding engineers.
The Flying Start Challenge aims to provide young people in North East Wales with hands-on experience of engineering.
Youngsters learn about the principles of flight and develop skills to plan, design and build a hand-held glider.
This year a total of 36 children, aged 13-14, from nine schools from Flintshire and North East Wales took part in the two-day event.
The challenge was judged in three categories and each team had a second-year Airbus apprentice on hand to help out.
Airbus Broughton's education partnership manager Steve Edwards said: "This year we have doubled the number of children participating, it has been a resounding success and we hope to build upon this for next year".
The winning school was St David's College, Llandudno.
The full article contains 152 words and appears in Evening Leader Wrexham newspaper.
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Last Updated:
08 May 2008 11:40 AM
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Source:
Evening Leader Wrexham
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Location:
Wrexham
