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A NEW Inventions poetry workshop, reverse engineering of toys and a peek behind-the-scenes of a worldleading rail research institute were some of the activities local children took part in at the University of Huddersfield’s Engineering Open House Day.

The day was part of a nationwide initiative entitled Engineer a Better World by the Institution of Engineering and Technology to encourage more young people to choose engineering as a career.

Organised by Carolyn Bishop from the School of Computing and Engineering, Huddersfield’s event was one of the most popular events in the country after seeing a threefold increase from the year before.

“We’re very proud of the work we do here at the university,” said Carolyn. “It’s an absolute pleasure to share our knowledge and passion most successful campaign we’ve ever run by far! It just shows you how children respond to the idea of other children who are in need.

“Our message is a massive ‘thank you’ to the thousands of inspirational children who walked around the world to help us, and who’ve for engineering with local families at the Engineering Open House Day.

“There simply aren’t enough young people choosing engineering as a career and this event provides a brilliant opportunity for us to inspire and excite the next generation,” she added.

This year’s events included a behind the scenes engineering tour with Professor Ian Glover and a tour raised awareness among families who need us but may not have known about us.”

Huddersfield’s Castle Hill School, also got involved and made a whole day of the challenge and created a real party atmosphere.

“They had a chain of wheelchairs around the university’s Institute of Railway Research, where children were given the rare opportunity to wear a hard hat and explore Harold, the Huddersfield Adhesion and Rolling Contact Laboratory Dynamics test rig.

In 2016, the University of Huddersfield was the first university to join the Engineering Open House Day which is now in its third year. all doing the challenge, led by the music therapists,” said Lynsey. “It was an amazing thing to see!”

Buoyed by the success of the Around the World Challenge, Forget Me Not will run the event again next year during Children’s Hospice Week, 21-27 May 2018.