Bathgate kids come up trumps for pumps
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Each team was tasked with creating a future use idea for an energy-efficient heat pump design primarily used for domestic heating and hot water.
After a series of preliminary rounds the competition was whittled down to a final, featuring one team from each school, with Bathgate Academy emerging as the eventual winners.
A team from Linlithgow Academy were runners-up with Inveralmond Community High impressed by the team’s detailed research on their heat pump application and to ensure that reuseable was an integral part of their design.
Yoshihiro Sumida, president and CEO of MACE, said: “The teamwork, learning and skills needed to decide on the future use of an air source heat pump will support the young people in their future move into the world of work and a design and our development engineer the experience of teamwork, leadership, planning and strategy skills – all the ingredients they will need to take forward into the work place.”
Rodney Ayre, senior department manager at MACE, said: “Pump It Up empowers these young people to apply their Stem knowledge and skills, enhancing their learning experience within the engineering environment.
“It’s crucial that we continue to support the skills and ingenuity which will drive the industry forward for decades to come.”
At the final pupils pitched their heat pump ideas to a special panel of judges, including Daisuke Matsunaga, Consul General of Japan in Edinburgh.
Livingston MSP Angela Constance spoke to guests at the end of the final.
She told the gathered pupils, parents and invited dignitaries: “I am extremely proud of these young people, who have shown such impressive innovation and ideas.
“I urge these pupils to keep holding on to their good ideas as in the future I am sure they will all be successes and continue to make us proud.”
The teamwork, learning and skills needed will support the young people Yoshihiro Sumida