Engineering Explained Tour Libya
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Engineering Explained into schools there.
The trip was a great success – the show, 'A Rough Guide to Engineering' went down very well with the Libyan students and teachers. We found the Libyan Students to be particularly perceptive, asking some very well thought-out questions (and occasionally stumping the presenters!), and enthusiastically joining in with the
demonstrations and questions and answers.
'A Rough Guide to Engineering' takes the audience on an imaginary tour around the world, investigating some of the different types of engineering that can improve our quality of life throughout the world, with a particular emphasis on environmental issues. The main messages of the show are
• That engineers solve problems ;
• That science and engineering together create new technologies, which take us forward and improve our quality of life
;
• That sometimes there is not one ‘correct solution’ but may possible alternatives;
• That engineers have to create practical solutions – i.e. affordable, reasonable, low impact, etc;
• That there are many exciting and important careers in engineering, which can make a very valuable contribution to humanity.
Along with science made simple, the Libyan Climate Change Group also spoke to the students, with their presentation which complimented the environmental message that 'A Rough Guide to Engineering'
Carries. We made very valuable links with the Libyan Climate Change Group, which we are hoping could lead to a new British Council Project - a climate change show that would be created by science made simple and performed by the Libyan Climate Change Group.
During the week, the two groups visited the following schools:
Donia El-Ebdai School, Tripoli – performing 2 shows to 200 students
Zouhour Al Andalous School, Tripoli – performing 2 shows to 80 students
Green Ray School, Benghazi – performing 2 shows to 100 students
Children’s World School, Benghazi – performing 2 shows to 100 students.
Huw and Helen were warmly welcomed into the Libyan schools, and found Libya to be a very friendly and easy place to visit, thanks in no small part to the British
Council who had done all the ground-work to arrange our visit. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and even managed to visit the ruins at Sabratha before flying out on the Friday.
We hope to return and visit more Libyan schools in the future.
