Children from The Enchanted Tree Nursery in Glasgow recently used their engineering prowess to beat older children in a car-building competition at the City Chambers.
It was the first time that nursery-aged children had entered the Primary Engineer Challenge, organised by The Universe of Engineering, so to go home with gold medals was a huge achievement (see below).
‘We are very proud of our engineers,’ says deputy manager Laura-Jane Gelston. ‘They worked extremely hard to compete at primary level. It was an incredible experience. Their reaction when they won was priceless, definitely one of the highlights of my career so far.’
Ms Gelston, a graduate in computer engineering and a trained teacher with a postgraduate certificate in primary science, is passionate about raising achievement and closing the attainment gap in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects. She had undertaken primary engineer training while working at a school, so was keen to share her knowledge with children at the family-run nursery that she jointly opened with her sister and aunt in November last year.
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