Section 2 i) Initial Research Work - Gewerbliche Schule Ravensburg

Monday 10 th October• 7.30am - Getting up• 9.30 am – Reception at Coleg Morgannwg• 11 am – small brunch with juice and cake• 1 pm – reception at the Town Hall and meeting theMayor of Rhondda Cynon Taf• 3 pm – Visit industrial plant of RPCThe vision statement of the college is: “Realising potential – shaping future”.They accept every student who comes to the college, they test his (her) basic leveland normally he (she) will be taken on.Students learn engineering, construction, designing, etc in this college.Opposite the college there is a new building under construction.Many of the students work in their free time, to get money for attending the college.The computers have internet access to ensure that the students can look up someinteresting videos about their topics.In the college there are many rooms for practical work such as rooms for training theskills of bricklayers, to work with wood and to work with electronics.Reception at Town HallAs Ravensburg is twinned withRCT we were invited by theMayor to see her at the TownHall. She pointed out that thereis a long lasting relationshipbetween the two areas. Shealso mentioned that our topicwe are working on is veryimportant and up-to-.date asthe local Council isinvestigating at the momenthow to dispose of theremnants of householdand industrial waste. After her address she invited us for a snack, which was reallygood and there was plenty of it.57