A group of Digital Technology students from Gower College Swansea has recently returned from a successful exchange trip to Germany.
The students, from the Level 3 Extended Diploma course at Tycoch, spent three weeks in Stuttgart where they took classes at the local college and enjoyed work experience with Mercedes Benz.
Angelo Amoruso, Rory Delacourt, Caleb Hardwick, Cameron Jones, Ryan O’ Sullivan, Michael Preece, Jeremy Rees and Griffith Sutton were selected for the trip due to their excellent recent academic achievements, which included scooping awards from both the Engineering Education Scheme Wales (EESW) and Big Bang Cymru in 2012.
The trip was made possible after European Leonardo Mobility funding was secured by the college’s International team for the E-STEM project, which has enabled three groups of students to undertake work placements in Europe. The first was a group of BTEC IT students who went to Denmark in December 2012 and the final visit will see a group of NVQ Motor Vehicle students travel to the Netherlands in March.
“The feedback from the students and staff who participated in the exchange has been tremendous,” says Digital Technology CTL Steve Williams. “The opportunity to spend time abroad, in a teaching and learning environment that is quite different from what they are used to, has been a really positive experience for all involved.”
The next stage of the exchange trip will see German students spending three weeks at the engineering workshops of Gower College Swansea.