Beechfield School had some very special visitors on Tuesday 6th May from the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), which is one of India’s premier science-focused universities, and University College London (UCL). These engineers work in the exciting areas of new energy technologies and renewable energy.

The British Council has funded a project as part of the Going Global Partnership programme, which is led by UCL, in collaboration with VIT and Siemens Energy. The team has developed a new curriculum on hydrogen technologies, which is primarily targeted at upskilling the future engineering workforce.

The engineers talked to the Year 5 children at Beechfield about sustainability, climate change and renewable energy, and demonstrated how hydrogen can be produced from water using electrolysers and used to power a car. The children were amazed to see how hydrogen could provide clean energy in the future.