Mills CNC and the CNC Training Academy support local school's F1 in Schools effort

Both companies have agreed to donate £1,000 each to the 'Whittle Wonders' team from North Leamington Secondary School who, after being crowned National Champions earlier this year, are representing the UK at the event. The team, comprising four students aged between 16 and 17 from the school, are confident that the sponsorship they have received from Mills CNC, The Training Academy and other local and national companies and organisations will help them win the much coveted Bernie Ecclestone Schools' World Championship Trophy. Says Mills CNC's managing director, Paul Hooper-Keeley: "The 'F1 in Schools' competition is a fantastic initiative, focused on changing young people's perceptions and attitudes about careers in engineering, science and technology. "This is something we are passionate about here at Mills and recognise that, if we cannot attract sufficient numbers of well qualified, highly skilled young people into manufacturing and engineering, the UK's future growth and economic prosperity will be severely affected. "The 'F1 in Schools' competition, with its emphasis on innovative thinking and design-for-manufacture knowledge and skills, ticks all the right boxes for us and that's why we are proud to be sponsoring the Whittle Wonders team." To cement its relationship with Mills CNC and the CNC Training Academy, the Whittle Wonder's four-student crew was invited to Mills CNC's Technology Campus in Leamington at the end of August to meet senior managers, take a tour of the facility and see a number of high performance Doosan machine tools being put through their paces. Image: Paul Hooper-Keeley, Mills CNC's managing director, with the four students who comprise the Whittle Wonders Team