Head's Newsletter 19 May 2017

exceptionally hard and achieved the award for Best Project Report. The Year 12 students tackled a six-month engineering project based on a real world challenge that the mentor’s company is currently facing. One Year 12 team was set the task of developing a device to detect leaks from underwater pipelines and wells. A solution to this could, in theory, help BP use existing ageing oil and gas infrastructure in the North Sea to transport and store captured carbon dioxide thereby assisting the move to a low carbon future. The other Year 12 team worked with Air Products to build a functioning prototype of a molecular weight sensor. The device could be used by operators to identify the type of gas present in a system. All the students are encouraged to show industrial enterprise, creativity and innovation when developing their solution. As they work together they gain extensive experience of problem-solving, team- working and project management. Both teams received the CREST award and the Industrial Cadet Award, and the BP team won the Contribution to the Business award. Congratulations to the Year 9 boys (left)

EES/GO4SET SUCCESS On Thursday 27 th April one team of Year 9 students and two teams of Year 12 students attended the Engineering Education Scheme (EES) and Go4SET celebration day at BP’s International Centre for Business and Technology (ICBT) in Sunbury. They have been working with a business mentor to produce a creative and sustainable solution to a variety of challenges faced by industry. The day is the culmination of months of hard work and gives the teams an opportunity to showcase their findings to parents, teachers, fellow students, industry experts and a panel of judges. The year 9 team, worked on a 10-week project, ‘Challenging Environments’. The students explored how science and technology could be used to help people live and work in some of the harshest environments on Earth. Working in small teams they developed a project plan, wrote a report and built a physical model that demonstrated their approach and solution. The team was allocated a business mentor to provide guidance, to challenge their thinking and to provide industrial context. The boys worked

and the following year 12 students: Arthur Leech, Harvey Wong, Rohan Vijjhalwar, Peter He, Tejas Katyarmal, Shiv Kapila, George Neville White, Aditya Deshpande, Mohamed Dawood, Manish Manoj, Shezoo Rahman and Chinmay Joglekar.