The Smallpeice Trust to Attend the Big Bang Fair
Summary
Over the 3 days, Education Officers from The Smallpeice Trust will be working together to provide young people with an insight into the world of engineering in which pupils attending stand IO1 will be given the opportunity to ask questions and take part in a 15 minute design-and-make project.We use this as an ice breaker elsewhere and the students always rise to the challenge.” Founded by Dr Cosby Smallpeice in 1966, the Trust has grown tremendously over the past 43 years, helping thousands of young people find a successful career in a multitude of disciplines within the industry from electronics, marine technology, and power engineering, to sports materials and low carbon energy.Based on The Smallpeice Trust STEM Days these mini projects aim to improve students’ creative thinking and problem solving skills whilst inspiring young people to think about how great a career in engineering could be.Dr Andrew Cave, Chief Executive from the Trust commented, “The task that the students will face on our stand is to design and make a piece of third world equipment to sort contaminated rice from good rice.We use this as an ice breaker elsewhere and the students always rise to the challenge.”Founded by Dr Cosby Smallpeice in 1966, the Trust has grown tremendously over the past 43 years, helping thousands of young people find a successful career in a multitude of disciplines within the industry from electronics, marine technology, and power engineering, to sports materials and low carbon energy.Following the stock market flotation of his company Martonair, Dr Smallpeice invested his energy and part of his personal fortune to set up the Trust to ensure that British industry could continuously benefit from his proven design and engineering philosophies: “Simplicity in design, economy in production.”The Trust is now governed by an eminent board of non-executive trustees and members from a diverse range of engineering, industry, educational and professional bodies.This year, The Smallpeice Trust will reach out to over 15,000 young people through over 30 different subsidised 4-day residential courses and 1-day in-school curriculum enrichment activities, offering training in all aspects of Engineering.A strong interface is maintained with industry, education and professional bodies that help to support, promote and develop the courses.