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Posted: Wednesday 2 March 2011

Dame Ellen MacArthur selects Hutchesons' Pupils for Industry internship

Six pupils from Hutchesons' Grammar School have won the first of five week-long internships within a leading UK industry.

Project ReDesign at announcementGlasgow's Science Centre hosted the first in a series of ‘Project Re-Design' events across the UK run by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Teams of students aged 16-18 were challenged to turn the UK's ‘waste to landfill' problem into a potential opportunity by re-thinking the way the system works. The Hutchesons' team (Timothy Heelis, Rory Morrice, Marwa Allam, David Linderman, Sandy Nimmo and Scott Melville) has won a fully funded internship with one of the Foundation's FTSE 100 founding partners: B&Q, BT & CISCO, National Grid and Renault.

The pupils rose to the challenge of re-thinking whether our current waste problem is, in fact, a materials opportunity, by exploring the possibilities of a systems level re-design.

Intrepid sportswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur attended the workshop:  "Our aim is to provide a framework within which to be creative and innovative, looking at future product design, transport, energy and communications. Our economy is still based on a liner ‘take-make-dispose' model. We want young people leaving school understanding the huge opportunities a re-thought future can offer." 

For more on Project Re-Design visit: www.made2bmadeagain.org

 

 

Tags: Academic Success, Science

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