ENGINEERING students from a Worcestershire high school have completed a special project for one of county's top companies.

A team from Pershore High took part in the Engineering Education Scheme, one of the UK's most demanding schools/business linking programmes, in which teams complete real commercially valuable projects for local companies over a six month period, being mentored by company staff.

The four students from the school's year 12, Martha Sadler, Rhiannon Hornett, Thomas Adams, and Toby Alliband, worked with boiler company Worcester Bosch on an innovation to help radiator flushing. The project was to design a device to help installers and service engineers effectively flush heating systems. A radiator jacket was designed which vibrates slightly to dislodge debris inside radiators to aid effective flushing, while not damaging the radiator or connecting pipes.

The team produced a full report on their designs and testing and succeeded in convincing expert assessors their work had been robust and well executed and their final recommendations were logical and feasible.

Geoff Jellis,Midlands regional director of EDT, the charity that co-ordinates the Engineering Education Scheme, said: "The Pershore team and all the teams that successfully presented have marked themselves out as high achieving engineers and scientists of the future. EES has been running for thirty years and each year around 1,000 students have been successful. A good part of the current UK engineering and scientific workforce have EES to thank for giving them an insight into what a science or engineering career can offer and giving them the tools in terms of practical and soft skills to make a success of those careers. Over 30 years more than 30,000 young people have successfully graduated from EES and research suggests that more than 90 per cent of EES students go on to science, technology, engineering or maths degrees and 77 per cent of them start careers in these sectors.”