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JOURNAL
FUTURE ENGINEERS
Ten Coventry schools came together for the celebration event at Eyebox.
ENGINEERS
IN THE MAKING
Eyebox provided a superb setting
for the children to test their models.
orelli Group’s Eyebox
facility played host to
a morning that can
only be described
as ‘organised chaos
and fun’ as around 80 pupils from
10 Coventry schools attended a
celebration event where they tested
and talked about the model vehicles
they had built as part of a programme
to inspire interest in automotive
engineering from an early age.
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Automotive engineers of the future representing
10 Coventry schools showed off their potential at a
celebration event hosted by Morelli Group at Eyebox
to mark the end of the Primary Engineer Vehicle
Programme.
by Morelli, Auto Plas, NBRA, Stellantis,
Axalta and ABP Club. The companies
came together to fund teacher
training and comprehensive classroom
resources, including materials and
tools, for 60 youngsters in each of the
schools taking part.
young engineers also interviewed by
representatives from the sponsoring
companies or ‘Engineer Inspirers’
about their experience and ideas, the
aspects of the project they liked best,
and the engineering knowledge they
had acquired through the process.
Awards were presented to winning
teams of pupils in categories such as
best theme and best communicator.
Organised by Primary Engineer, an
educational not-for-pro昀椀t organisation
founded in 2005 to engage
schoolchildren and their teachers
with the vast and exciting world
of engineering, the event was the
culmination of an initiative supported
The practical project tasked the
participants with building a model
vehicle – pupils aged 昀椀ve to seven
constructing theirs from a shoebox
whilst those aged between eight
and 11-years-old were required to
make a chassis out of wood and
power their creation with an electric
battery. The best designs from each
school were then brought to Eyebox
where they were judged on straight
line, incline and ramp tests with the
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As well as its Vehicle initiative,
Primary Engineer also runs
programmes in Rail, Construction
and Early Years Engineering. In the
2023-2024 academic year, it worked
with 117,047 pupils, 6,630 teachers,
and 1,608 engineers, which resulted in
a total of over 842,846 pupil hours of
engineering being delivered.
