Activities Calendar

11 November 2011

EPA Bowling Day

 

Activities

EPA regularly arranges activities for its members and the interested public. Planned actvities are announced on the News page. For the latest information please contact the EPA Administrator.  Please note that, while EPA and its event partners work hard at arranging and maintaining scheduled events, it may occasionally be necessary to change the schedule without prior notice.

Capacity Building Activities

Conventions, seminars, workshops and training courses for continuing professional development, orgnised in cooperation with leading educators and facilitators.

Education

Participation in school career guidance programmes and dissemination of educational materials about engineering.

Luncheons & Sundowners

Prominent speakers address relevant topics, covering not only engineering, but also knowledge-broadening matters, such as concerning our natural and social environment, at luncheons and sundowners that are open to members and the interested public.

Site Visits

Arrangement of day visits to sites of particular engineering interest. Depending on participation, EPA will also arrange group transport.

Young Engineers' Construction Project

Key Points

• Brings engineering to schools through a national competition
•  Open to secondary school students in Grades 11 and 12
•  Winners may participate in international competition (subject to sponsorship)

Introduction

The annual EPA Young Engineers’ Construction Project is a highly popular project leading to participation in international competitions. This national competition is open to Grade 11 and 12 students of secondary schools throughout Namibia. Students are challenged to build simple but effective model engineering structures according to broad specifications, which allow students to exercise their ingenuity in finding the best compliant engineering solution. Apart from sponsored prizes for the best teams and their schools, EPA annually canvasses for sponsorship for the winning team to participate in the annual Bridge-building Competition of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering. This offers the Namibian team the opportunity to compete internationally against winning teams from similar competitions in various countries in Southern Africa.

Throughout the years, a wide range of engineering models have been built, but the most popular has been the EPA Bridge Building Competition, which links with the international SAICE Bridge Building Competition hosted annually in South Africa.

A copy of a specification typically used for the EPA Bridge Building Competition may be downloaded here.

Previous Winners

For the Roll of Honour of previous winners of the Young Engineers' Construction Competition, please visit our Archive.