DR LIM WINS EXCELLENCE IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION AWARD

We’re delighted to announce that Head of Engineering, Enterprise and Technology (EET), Dr Matthew Lim, has won the James Dyson Foundation Award for Excellence in Engineering Education at the Design and Technology Association’s Excellence Awards 2020.

The awards are held in partnership with the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and recognise the commitment and achievements of teachers, trainers, education consultants and academics across primary and secondary schools.

The news follows the announcement of the eighth and ninth Arkwright Engineering Scholarships to be awarded to CLC pupils.

Dr Lim accepted his award at a virtual ceremony on the evening of Thursday 3rd December 2020. He said:

“I would like to thank the Design and Technology Association and the James Dyson Foundation for this unexpected honour.

It has been six years since the founding of EET and time has gone by in a blur. I would like to thank our Principal, Vice Principal (Academic), the rest of Senior Leadership Team and Council at Cheltenham Ladies’ College for their support and belief both back then and every day since. Especially to our girls, whose ‘hunger’ for learning inspires me daily to be a better teacher.

As a teacher, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be given the chance to ‘write your own story’ and six years on, I am so pleased that the realisation of this vision is empowering our girls to become innovators of the future by giving them the licence to ‘choose their own adventure’. Integral to this, is nurturing in them resilience by creating opportunities for them to learn through failure.

I would like to thank my wife Emily and my daughters Bea and Evie for being part of this adventure, moving across the country to make this dream a reality.

Lastly, I was kindly nominated for this award pre-Covid-19 and the world now looks very different now. I would like to take this opportunity to accept this award on behalf of all the Design and Technology teachers and the volunteers they inspired, who rallied together at the height of this global crisis to make PPE. I am so proud to have been able to contribute to a community, which under pressure, embodies resilience, a spirit of innovation and a selfless heart for the community – everything we all aspire for in the pupils who we have the privilege of teaching in our classrooms and workshops every day.”

The awards ceremony is available to view on the Design and Technology Association YouTube channel.