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Motorsport students turn old into new
Young pupils demonstrated how their hard work turned old into new at the motorsports department of the Isle campus of The College of West Anglia.
The youngsters are released from their schools for one day a week to attend a PEO level 1engineering course at the college. As part of the second year they have spent around 30 weeks restoring old and unusable Honda engine go karts into gleaming vehicles capable of being raced.
The Go-kart Restoration Project involved a dozen pupils from the Thomas Clarkson Academy in Wisbech and Cromwell Community College, Chatteris.
It was the second year the 14-16 years had attended the Isle campus where motorsport lecturer JP Latham created the go-kart project in order to utilise and challenge the pupil’s skills learned on their course.
And the students welcomed their parents and guardians and stakeholders to the Isle campus to see their two finished karts.
Pupils Ryan Killingworth, Agnius Petrusions and Matthew Sutton, all 16 years old, explained what they had achieved when called upon to present their work. Some of the pupils involved in the project are already looking to take up full-time courses at the campus.
JP Latham said he was really impressed by the students and Principal David Pomfret added they had learned a range of skills beyond a level 1 course and he congratulated the trio who spoke during the presentation.
The 12 pupils had worked in two separate teams to complete work on the go-karts, which saw them take something from the scrap heap to fully restored go-karts which are safe to use, reliable and professionally presented.
The pupils were taken to the Wild Tracks circuit near Newmarket the following to see the karts in action.
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The pictures show one of the karts before the work was carried out as well as parents and stakeholders looking at a restored kart.
Principal David Pomfret is seen with one of the youngest visitors.