ThalesCPT25 - Primary Engineer https://www.primaryengineer.com Primary Engineer bringing engineering into the classroom inspiring children, pupils, teachers parents and engineers since 2005. Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:37:08 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.primaryengineer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-primeng_favicon-01-32x32.png ThalesCPT25 - Primary Engineer https://www.primaryengineer.com 32 32 Thales Cheadle creating the Rainbow Glasses Prototype https://www.primaryengineer.com/thales-cheadle-creating-the-rainbow-glasses-prototype/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thales-cheadle-creating-the-rainbow-glasses-prototype Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:31:07 +0000 https://www.primaryengineer.com/?p=10877 Thales UK are a national partner for our Leaders Award competition which asks pupils aged 3-19 the question “If you were an engineer, what would you do?”. This year Thales...

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]]> Thales UK are a national partner for our Leaders Award competition which asks pupils aged 3-19 the question “If you were an engineer, what would you do?”. This year Thales UK will be creating 6 prototypes across 5 of their UK sites, in total turning 6 pupils’ ideas submitted to our Leaders Award competition into a working prototypes over the 2024/2025 academic year.

Maisie’s original competition design

Pupil designer, Millie, will see her engineering idea ‘Rainbow Glasses’ turned into a reality by Thales Cheadle. Her idea is a pair of glasses with interchangeable coloured lenses to help people with Dyslexia read easily.

Introduction to the ProtoTeam

  • BPM Lead / Outreach Lead = Sam Hassan
  • Manufacturing Lead / Security Liaison = Ben Butcher
  • Risk Manager / Test Lead = Hassan Shabbir
  • Procurement Lead / Research Lead = Tyler Creagh
  • Finance Controller / Quality Lead = Chris Moloney

Starting the prototype – planning

We are looking forward to the next update!

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