Successful the guidance of the students to the metal industry
Our company received students from primary schools to present machinery trades (mechanical engineering, mechanical cutting, industrial engineering, vehicle metal parts manufacture). In the framework of the occupational guidance programme announced by the Chamber of GYMSKIK, students from grades 6 and 7 who are interested in techniques but do not know what secondary-school to choose or want to get familiar with the metal industry and machinery more closely as well as their teachers will take part in the factory visit.
We find it important to popularise the metal industry and machinery among the children, their parents and teachers already at the primary school age. We want to present and make the metal industry trades attractive to them. During these factory visits, we try to present also the career models and possibilities to the children.
In order to be able to offer the most interesting programme to the children, we have asked Technics Playground to make the factory visits more interactive with their machine fleet and demonstration. The children have already got a foretaste of machining processes; they used small CNC lathes to make candles and CNC millers to mill forms. Both the students and the teachers were very interested. We hope that several other companies and organisations will also join the programme, and we shall be able to jointly mitigate the problem of the long existing expert shortage after a while.