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News Release from: Moeller Electric
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 23 April 2003
Donation helps in school's quest for
status
Moeller Electric has donated over GBP 2500 worth of its Easy control relay trainer kits to Huntcliff Comprehensive School in Kirton in Lindsey.
To help raise GBP 50,000 towards achieving the status of a specialist school for engineering and technology, Moeller Electric has donated over GBP 2500 worth of its Easy control relay trainer kits to Huntcliff Comprehensive School in Kirton in Lindsey, near Scunthorpe Recently, the school successfully applied for the specialist school status which entitles it to benefit from additional Government funding
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Raising GBP 50,000 of sponsorship from the private sector is a precondition of the new status and Moeller's donation of the Easy trainer kits counted towards this figure.
The school's leaning towards engineering and technology has seen it introduce more work-related education including a GCSE in engineering.
This applied GCSE course is taught in partnership with three other local schools and North Lindsey College of Further Education.
Local employers, such as Corus, are also involved in the project as the curriculum requires seeing equipment in situ.
Phil Kent, Head of Engineering and Technology at Huntcliff said: "Moeller's Easy trainer kits support many aspects of the GCSE course, and will give the students hands on experience when they study the use of systems and control technology in production".
The Easy trainer kits contain Easy control relay units along with printed circuit boards which act as an I/O simulator and an analogue simulator (so the current can be varied using a potentiometer).
Also included are several exercises which enable real applications to be replicated.
The ultimate goal is to create a demonstration process incorporating the Easy control relay in the pupils' workshop/classroom.
Martyn Caley, of Scattergood and Johnson in Leeds, a Moeller distributor, introduced Moeller to the school in his capacity as an LEA governor.
He has seen the pupils benefit greatly from the course and the donation of equipment and said, "If our aim is to produce qualified engineers, we must begin the process in schools.
Engineering, as an industry, can't afford to rely on higher education alone to produce its most vital raw material - people".
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