Engineering Challenge Cup

Prize winners from the Engineering Challenge Cup

This week six budding engineers, all pupils from Mildenhall College of Technology, swapped text books for hard hats and safety boots, when they visited building sites in Ipswich.

The four boys and two girls won the trip, which was first prize in the Engineering Challenge 2007, for using their practical engineering skills to solve a real life problem. Sponsors, the MLM Group and Jackson Civil Engineering, set a number of real life challenges which included designing and planning the resurfacing of a section of the A12 dual carriageway.

Their prize was a visit to the MSC building site on Ransome's Europark and to two Ipswich waterfront projects - Griffin Wharf and Albion Wharf. They then enjoyed lunch with staff from MLM and Jacksons at the Salthouse Harbour Hotel on the Ipswich waterfront.

The sixth-form team from Mildenhall was one of 10 groups of pupils who took up the challenge in October at an event held at Otley College, just outside of Ipswich.

Felicity Halston, Marketing Coordinator for the MLM Group, said:

" The event is all about getting young people interested and involved in engineering as a career. One of the winners from 2006, Carl Bowen Price, is now an MLM employee studying for a BSc in Civil Engineering, so we know it definitely works!"

The Engineering Challenge is held annually in conjunction with CITB-Construction Skills and the Suffolk Education Business Partnership, as part of National Construction week. It includes a mix of practical design and planning with presentation skills. The students from Mildenhall College of Technology have also received a shield in recognition of their win.

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