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Engineering Students Win Innovation Award

On Thursday 23rd April, the ‘Area Finals’ of this year’s ‘Young Enterprise Competition’ took place at the City Museum and Art Gallery. The Engineering Advanced Diploma students won the ‘Innovation Award for Stoke on Trent’.

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Richard Key wins Innovation Award

The Advanced Diploma in Engineering was launched across the City in September 2008. The first cohort of students to take this course, have worked throughout the year with their link teacher, Simon Mansell, and professionals from JCB to take part in the Young Enterprise Scheme as part of their Diploma.

The group of 12 students have set up a business as part of the scheme. They are called ‘Revolve’ and they are very proud of their innovative product.

Richard Key, current student, formerly of Brownhills High School, was elected by the group to become the Managing Director of Revolve.

Richard collected the ‘Innovation Award for Stoke on Trent’ which the team won over eight other teams in the competition.

“The concept that we came up with is based on a jet engine, it is a revolutionary 360 degree fan. We spent a long time discussing the idea, using a spinning coin in the first instance to tease out how it would work.”