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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Following the great success of yet another ground breaking IMechE West Cumbria Annual Dinner, I would like to personally thank our generous sponsors for their tremendous support. With their help, the Dinner was certainly taken to another level:

During the day, two concurrent schools events took place to gain maximum excitement from our main attraction: Bloodhound SSC. 200 Primary students took full advantage through a rocketry workshop delivered by the Bloodhound Education Team. A 'Girls In Engineering' event involving some 75 female students also involved the inspirational IMechE President-elect, Prof Isobel Pollock, who is to become only the second female President in the IMechE's history. Then at the Dinner itself, not only were we graced with some fantastic food and after dinner entertainment, including a key note speech from Isobel on the healthy state of our Institution, but we were enthralled by Richard Noble OBE who gave a most inspirational address about his fascinating Bloodhound SSC project – an engineering adventure.

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Please download with our compliments, a Poster depicting the West Cumbria Area Events for Spring/Summer 2012.

PLEASE NOTE DATE AND VENUE CHANGE FOR THE ANNUAL DINNER IS NOW THE 14TH JUNE 2012 AT THE WASHINGTON CENTRAL HOTEL, WORKINGTON

IMechE West Cumbria Area Newsletter from Chairman Spring/Summer 2012

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Read more on the Dinner in our centre page feature article inside the above newsletter.

As well as enabling to continue to expand our prestigious Annual Dinner, the sponsorship we have secured has enabled us to allocate the necessary funds to continue and develop our engineering educational initiatives throughout the coming year, which is as always one of our key objectives.

We continue to build and strengthen our schools contacts across the area, with 10 Secondary Schools representatives attending the Dinner to help build more company-school networking opportunities.

With the generosity of those who attended the Dinner, we were also able to raise over £2,000 for our three local charities: Great North Air Ambulance, Cockermouth Mountain Rescue and Macmillan Cancer. Our largest donations yet.

The whole day was simply unforgettable, in fact our incumbent President Prof Rod Smith, at his second IMechE West Cumbria Dinner, described the event as “Undoubtedly, the best Institution Dinner outside of London ....”

And it didn't stop there. The following day, a Presidential visit took place for the Annual Dinner guests of honour to the Thorp Plants at Sellafield. Read more about the Dinner, the Presidential Visit and all the other activities we been up to inside this jam-packed newsletter!

I look forward to see you soon.

Tom Pritt CEng FIMechE BEng (Hons)

Chairman – Institution of Mechanical Engineers (West Cumbria)

Email: tom.pritt@atkinsglobal.com

P.S. Remember you can print off extra copies of the Autumn/Winter 2011/2012 Programme Poster, as well keep up-to-date with what’s happening with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in West Cumbria by checking out our website [www.imechewestcumbria.org.uk] or better still by providing me with your email address so that I can send you information on the many engineering events that are happening not only here in West Cumbria, but right across the North West Region. If you have changed your email address since you registered it with us, please make sure you let me know, then we can update our records and keep you informed.

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(Institution of Mechanical Engineers Vision Statement 2007)

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