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Siemens Congleton Continues to Support "Girls Can Do It Too" Project
Siemens, along with several organisations including Vauxhall, BAE Systems and Airbus, are supporting a project Engineering - "Girls Can Do It Too", aimed at encouraging girls and young women into engineering careers. Macclesfield College are leading the Project and are well on the way to producing a transferable model, which may be rolled-out to other areas of the UK.
As part of the schedule of activities the girls on the Project get to visit industry partners and recently 10 girls aged 10/11 years old from Park Royal Primary School in Macclesfield, who are one of the five local schools involved in the Project, visited Siemens Motion Control in Congleton. The visit is geared to show the girls how interesting engineering can be, and started with an introduction to the Company by David Titley, Financial Director of Motion Control in Congleton. After the girls had watched the new Corporate DVD they were given a guided tour of the factory. The girls were shown the different production stages of drives manufacture and were introduced to some of the female engineers and factory workers. The girls were particularly impressed with the factory cleanliness and tidiness.
The design room was the next part of the tour where the girls watched a design engineer at work using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. Then the girls went outside to see the new wormery, which Siemens have recently installed to assist in reducing their waste sent to landfill. The wormery is just one example of a number of methods that Siemens uses to reduce its environmental impact.
Next the girls participated in fun activities, including a production flow activity using pictures of machinery and drive parts and materials to be assembled in a line that represents the factory's production flow, which they had seen on the factory tour. After lunch the girls had a competition where they did a drawing of the visit, which was judged by three engineers and Polly won first prize of a Siemens branded calculator.
Kay Lees, Programme Manager of the Project said "the visits that Siemens have provided both here at Congleton and Manchester, have been the most talked about events with the Primary school girls. They have made a positive and lasting impression on both the girls and teachers, we are extremely fortunate to have Siemens as one of the supporting partners on the Project".
Michaela Lawton-Wallace - Business Excellence Champion at Siemens Congleton, added "we are confident that after these tailored tours designed for young people we believe they will leave a little more enlightened and enthused about science and engineering, which is one of the objectives of the Project".
For more information on Project please visit: www.macclesfield.ac.uk/schoolleavers/enggirls
24/06/2010