INDUSTRIAL CADETS EXPANSION

M-TEC’s ongoing commitment not only to the Industrial Cadets programme but the UK automotive industry, we a proud to announce an expansion to our existing awards scheme.

Going forward M-TEC will be offering ‘Gold’, ‘Platinum’ and ‘Platinum Leader’ awards within the Industrial cadets framework. This gives the opportunity for all our Work experience, under graduates and apprentices to benefit from the Induistrial cadets programme.

M-TEC Engineering Projects are offering ‘Gold Level’ workplace experience, inline with the Industrial Cadets framework. Cadets graduating at the Gold level will  follow a programme defined by the activities breakdown over a minimum of 50 hours. The programme components and skills and competency framework illustrate the employability skills and personal learning and thinking skills acquired by each individual.

 

M-TEC Engineering Projects are now offering ‘Platinum Level’ experience, inline with the Industrial Cadets framework. Cadets graduating at the Platinum level will again follow a programme defined by the activities breakdown over an extended period of time (Usually a year). Under graduates and apprentices will be required to keep a log book in order to monitor and record their individual development. In addition external engagement of schools further promoting not only the company but the Industrial Cadets programme.

 

M-TEC Engineering Projects are now offering ‘Platinum Leader’ experience, inline with the Industrial Cadets framework and following on from the ‘Platinum’ level, Graduates and Apprentices alike whom are successful in graduating at Platinum leader level will further strengthen their communication and leadership skills and experience by mentoring and challenging external schools. The under graduates and apprentices will be expected to have significant input into school engagement (e.g. school presentations, assistance with WEX hosting, mentoring, role model interaction) as well as representing M-TEC Engineering Projects in community initiatives or making an additional impact by going the extra mile with the company itself.

Industrial Cadets Awards 2018

Judges recognition for outstanding SME Employer – M-TEC Engineering Projects

M-TEC offers a wide range of Programme, Engineering & Design support services to their customer base, developing components, systems and processes from concept through to product realisation. They have been offering ‘Gold Level’ workplace experiences, in line with the Industrial Cadets framework. Cadets graduating at the Gold level will follow a programme defined by the activities breakdown over a minimum of 50 hours. The programme components and skills and competency framework illustrate the employability skills and personal learning and thinking skills acquired by each individual. M-TEC are passionate about this statement on their website and believe that this is the way forward to establishing renewed confidence with young people’s career path into engineering.

Industrial Cadets Awards Categories & Nomination Forms 2018

SME Employer of the Year: The premier award for SME employers who have demonstrated outstanding engagement with young people and the Industrial Cadets initiative. Illustrating best practice in employer engagement on the work experience STEM agenda, recognising the quality of experience, depth of learning and corporate commitment to the overarching agenda. Follow the link here.

37TH INDUSTRIAL CADET

24/04/2018 – M-TEC Engineering Projects 37th Gold Level Industrial Cadet

M-TEC Engineering Projects thirty seventh Industrial Cadet GOLD Graduation of J.Wharton. Joseph successfully completed a development programme, resulting in the creation of a detailed CAD design and manufacture of a ‘Cantilever Bridge’ Model. This was then prototyped using our very own 3D printer. Congratulations on an excellent presentation and ‘Cantilever Bridge’ Model. #IndustrialCadets # STEM #STEAM #EDT #Youngengineers @YoEgovuk @Metcalfe_SBET

CALLING SCHOOLS & STUDENTS

M-TEC are at the forefront of engaging schools and students alike via the Industrial Cadets programme. This has been acknowledged through our recent award presented by HRH the Prince of Wales in March 2018, for “Outstanding SME Employer of the Year”.

Capitalising on this award along with our ongoing commitment to the Industrial Cadets, our team have and are engaging numerous local schools to encourage the students to take an active role in pursuing work experience in the engineering sectors.

Below are some of the schools that are already engaged with M-TEC’s Cadet programme, if you are a student at one of the schools mentioned, please contact your careers team to enquire about taking advantage of the exisitng route we have in place for your work experience. If your school is not mentioned below, please feel free get in touch with either us here at M-TEC or your careers team directly, to encourage the school to get involved with STEM, STEAM, M-TEC and the Industrial Cadets.

If you would like to know more follow the link here.

36TH INDUSTRIAL CADET

16/04/2018 – M-TEC Engineering Projects 36th Gold Level Industrial Cadet

M-TEC Engineering Projects thirty sixth Industrial Cadet GOLD Graduation of H.Ward. Harry successfully completed a development programme, resulting in the creation of a detailed CAD design and manufacture of a ‘Pagani Wing Mirror’ Model. This was then prototyped using our very own 3D printer. Congratulations on an excellent presentation and ‘Pagani Wing Mirror’ Model. #IndustrialCadets #STEAM #EDT #Youngengineers @YoEgovuk @Metcalfe_SBET

2017 APPRENTICE INTAKE

MTEC-EP apprentices Lawrence Bridger, Frank Lording (M-TEC’s training officer) William Skelley and Harry Machin

M-TEC are proud to introduce Harry Machin to our 2017 apprentice intakes. As part of M-TEC’s ongoing commitment to introduce, train and develop the next generation of Engineering hopefuls. Harry came through the M-TEC Industrial Cadet programme (As previous apprentices) and will undergo a variety of training modules in order to widen their knowledge base as well as be given the opportunity to ‘Earn & Learn’ with an OU Degree course.

If this is of interest to you, please feel free to get in touch, we will then introduce your school or college to the Industrial cadets to allow you the opportunity to engage with industry.

Watch this space for further developments of the current and new apprentices during 2018 along with our previous apprentices Lawrence Bridger and Anthony Polson.

35TH INDUSTRIAL CADET

27/03/2018 – M-TEC Engineering Projects 35th Gold Level Industrial Cadet

M-TEC Engineering Projects thirty fifth Industrial Cadet GOLD Graduation of E.Peter. Esther successfully completed a development programme, resulting in the creation of a detailed CAD design and manufacture of a ‘Mechanical Dolphin’ Model. This was then prototyped using our very own 3D printer. Congratulations on an excellent presentation and ‘Mechanical Dolphin’ Model. #IndustrialCadets #STEAM #EDT #Youngengineers @YoEgovuk @Metcalfe_SBET @Stemettes #WomenInSTEM

34TH INDUSTRIAL CADET

13/03/2018 – M-TEC Engineering Projects 34th Gold Level Industrial Cadet

M-TEC Engineering Projects thirty fourth Industrial Cadet GOLD Graduation of A.Goodman. Alice successfully completed a development programme, resulting in the creation of a detailed CAD design and manufacture of a ‘Dolls House’ Model. This was then prototyped using our very own 3D printer. Congratulations on an excellent presentation and ‘Dolls House’ Model. #IndustrialCadets #STEAM #EDT #Youngengineers @YoEgovuk @Metcalfe_SBET @Stemettes #WomenInSTEM

M-TEC Sponsor Kenilworth School Rugby Team

20-Mar-18 Morris hat-trick ends Kenilworth School’s hopes of Twickenham glory.

Kenilworth School Under-15s’ dreams of Twickenham success were ended by a second-half Will Morris hat-trick as Beechen Cliff School came from behind to win their Schools Vase final 36-14

Ten minutes into the match fly-half Ollie de Glanville, son of former England centre Phil, was on hand to receive a slick offload inside the Kenilworth 22, slipping through the defence to score the game’s opening try.

Kenilworth responded almost immediately, working their way into the Beechen Cliff 22 before being driven into touch five metres out.
With 16 minutes on the clock, their efforts were rewarded following some excellent work from the forwards, with captain Josh Marsden going over to open his side’s account. Fly-half Will Woolvine’s successful conversion levelled the scores. After the restart, Kenilworth were back on the attack, almost scoring again before a well-timed interception from Charlie Delargy allowed the winger to race down the right wing to score and nudge Beechen Cliff into a 12-7 lead. That score saw the momentum swing Beechen Cliff’s way but Kenilworth’s strong defence prevented any further first-half scores. Kenilworth started the second half brightly with Finn Yallop showing great strength to score just two minutes in.

The conversion from Woolvine edged Kenilworth into a two-point lead but the advantage was short-lived. Beechen Cliff were back in front when the ball was shipped out wide to centre Morris who crossed in the corner for his first of the match. Therrien converted to restore his side’s five-point advantage and Morris was back on the scoresheet in the 48th minute, taking advantage of loose ball in the Kenilworth in-goal area to touch down. Morris then secured a memorable hat-trick after Daniel Boyle was superbly brought down by Kenilworth just inches short of the line.

A sixth try through replacement Yuji Westmacott and converted by Therrien added further gloss to Beechen Cliff’s victory.

Well done all, fantastic effort getting to Twickenham.

12-Mar-18 Kenilworth school will now face Beechen Cliff in the Vase final in the Cup on 14th March at Twickenham!

M-TEC Group proud sponsors of the Kenilworth School rugby team.

Allianz Park hosts U15 Schools Cup semi-finals and for Kenilworth – here is how the action unfolded;

Allianz Park hosted the U15 Schools Cup semi-finals as eight teams battled it out to secure the four available spots in the Cup and Vase finals at Twickenham.

Kenilworth school will now face Beechen Cliff in the Vase final while Manchester Grammar School will meet Whitgift in the Cup on 14th March at Twickenham

Kenilworth win 8 try thriller – Kenilworth school from Warwickshire were the first side to book their place in the U15 Vase final at Twickenham after a thrilling 32-17 win over QEGS Penrith.

The winning side raced out to an early lead, scoring three tries in the opening 12 minutes in what looked likely to be a comfortable victory.

However with all three tries unconverted, QEGS still fancied their chances and fought back with tries from Archie Rattray and James Ellis. Both were converted by fly half and captain Louis Johnson to make it 14-15.

QEGS then had all the momentum and went in half time 17-15 ahead when Johnson slotted a penalty following an infringement at the ruck from Kenilworth.

Kenilworth composed themselves at half time and kept QEGS scoreless in the second half while scoring 17 points themselves.

After 40 minutes prop Dylan Hunter capitalised on loose ball to dive over the line to put his side back in the lead before number 8 Josh Marston extended their lead after 47 minutes, using his impressive strength to drive over the line.

Will Woolvine converted to make it 27-17 and the Warwickshire school made sure of their place at Twickenham minutes later when Yallop, Man of the Match, went over for his second try to make it 32-17 at the final whistle.

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2018 INDUSTRIAL CADETS WINNERS

Coventry Small Business receives accolade presented by HRH The Prince of Wales

A Coventry business has proved that it is not just big companies that have a role to play in training and inspiring young people into technical careers. At the Annual Industrial Cadet Awards in London, an event attended by HRH The Prince of Wales, M-TEC Engineering Projects was lauded for its approach, receiving the Judges recognition as “Outstanding SME Employer” for their work in taking a steady stream of young people from local schools and giving them insights into technical design and the careers that it can lead to.

M-TEC Engineering Projects is a Design & Engineering Consultancy & offers a wide range of Programme, Engineering & Design services to the automotive and engineering sectors, developing components and systems from concept through to product realisation. The students aged between 15 and 18 from local schools are undertaking work experience at the Industrial Cadets Gold Award level with M-TEC. Typically the students are with M-TEC for around seven days during which they learn how to use a design package, are set a project design brief, scope out a project with support of the M-TEC team, and design a ‘product’ on design software, making a 3d print of their final design.

Industrial Cadets is an accreditation for young peoples’ experiences of employers in science, technology, engineering and maths industries, ensuring that those experiences have maximum value in inspiring young people into careers in those disciplines.

M-TEC is acutely aware of the shortage of skilled Engineering and CAD designers. The number of people available for this highly skilled work has been very limited for some years. Engaging with young people through Industrial Cadets is a great opportunity to get young people into engineering environment from a young age whilst still at school.

M-TEC Managing Director Steve Hanson says, “Although we are a relatively small company in the automotive sector, we feel that we have a responsibility to educate younger people about the opportunities within our sector, whether that be Engineering & Design related or within the sector more widely. Major manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan offer Industrial Cadet work experience, but it cannot just be left to the big companies. If all businesses encourage such activity, we will start to attract the next generation of engineers to ensure that UK industry continues to develop over the longer term. We are particularly keen to try to attract more women into our sector, and we feel if we can spark that interest in Design & Engineering in girls at an early age that this will open up a whole new source of skills for our sector in the long term.”

M-TEC received their award from HRH The Prince of Wales at the event which took place on the 7th March at IET London: Savoy Place.

The idea for the Industrial Cadet accreditation was originally seeded in a conversation about providing effective experiences of work and industry between HRH The Prince of Wales and executives of the Tata Group in 2010. Since that time His Royal Highness has taken a keen interest in the establishment of Industrial Cadets as a national accreditation and its recent rapid expansion.

 

Julie Feest, CEO of the charity EDT which co-ordinates Industrial Cadets says,

“M-TEC has realised that if every company large and small made a contribution to inspiring young people into science, technology and engineering careers, the skills gaps in these industries would be rapidly closed. Companies only need to engage at a scale proportionate to their size. M-TEC has found that taking students in small numbers at a time, but with great regularity, avoids the activity becoming a burden, but has a significant impact on raising the awareness of the careers companies likes M-TEC can offer. Other SME companies can look at what M-TEC does for these young people and realise that it is a contribution that they could make too.”

For more information on the event, along with a full list of winners please visit the Industrial Cadets website here.