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The Link Magazine • August 1996
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Engineers put skills to the test

Engineers from some of Swindon's Organised by neighbourhood
biggest companies took over the engineer and Greendown gover-
year 10 timetable at Greendown nor Gordon Watt of Royal Mail
School on 8 July. Research, engineers from Galileo,
Neighbourhood Engineers, National Power, Halcrow civil en-
members of the Engineering Coun- gineering, New College, Swindon
cil, supervised projects to build and Trowbridge Colleges took
radios, model aircraft and oil rigs, part.
kites and water powered rockets. "The students had to find solu-
Students also made a trip to tions to problems commonly found
nearby National Power to operate in engineering," said Mr Watt.
a power station simulator and "The projects were designed to
spent time working on computer stretch their knowledge of science,
aided design programmes in the maths and technology . We also
New College technology centre tried to make engineering fun and
based at the school. attractive as a career."

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