A group of Year 8 Students from Sale Grammar School have worked on a project to investigate the use of energy in their school. Chris Owen, a Fuel Route Engineer from the Reactor Services business, has acted as their company mentor.
This involved weekly visits to the school to help the students run their project and prepare for the assessment day. One of the challenges for the students taking part in Go4SET is that they are not used to working on projects over this length of time.
The main role of the company mentor is to help the team with the project management of their work. Chris encouraged the team to think about the steps involved in their project and to produce a plan.
Click here to read the full article extracted from the August 2009 edition of the 'Nucleus' magazine.