Build a Plane

While the project may take several years to complete, it will allow a large number of students to take part and develop vital practical and soft skills that will transfer to the workplace. Ian continued: “There are so many different practical skills involved in shaping the plane’s components and constructing it, but there are other skills, too: working together as a team, being responsible for carefully checking one another’s work, having the confidence to question each other. The level of patience required is phenomenal and, as one student remarked: ‘Almost good enough isn’t good enough – it has got to be perfect!’”

It is a great opportunity for the students to improve the accuracy of their work as well as join part of a team that is going to see a plane they have built fly!