Students from Wales High School will be taking on a challenge set by Newburgh Precision's Apprentice Training Manager, Pete Kerfoot to invent, design and manufacture and marketing outline a portable health and safety kit. 

The students will work with Newburgh Precision's team to develop the kit to be suitable, practicable and as cost efficient as possible.  Designing something that is specific to the needs of the company as the off-the-shelf products that are already in the marketplace do not fully support all the company's requirements. 

The work-wise Innovation Challenge, an annual event, has been running since 2010. This year's challenge has 12 companies each setting a problem for a group of students from local schools where they work on a design, research and manufacturing problem for the company.  The schools will come together at the end of three months to present their projects at a finals day at the annual Get up to Speed with Engineering and Manufacturing showcase event at Magna on 22nd April 2015. 

If you are a company or a school interested in taking part in the challenge then contact Janice Richardson, The work-wise Foundation on janice@work-wise.co.uk or 07757 820931. 

For more details on Get up to Speed visit http://www.getuptospeed.org.uk/