Technisch Instituut Sint-Paulus offers new technical spaces for other schools

The Technisch Instituut Sint-Paulus in Mol, Belgium, has added a further four electrical engineering rooms to allow it to offer taster courses to students from other schools.

It was 15 years ago that the Technisch Instituut Sint-Paulus added a new building and created an electrical engineering centre of excellence. Lucas- Nülle won the public tender at the time and was awarded the contract to install seven complete laboratories in the new centre of excellence. In 2015, the school ran out of space, so another new building was needed. Once again, Lucas-Nülle won the contract to equip the technical spaces. The Instituut Sint-Paulus created this additional learning space so that it could offer technical taster courses for students from general education schools and to provide a home for the new STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) department. At the Instituut Sint-Paulus, learning through technical project work starts early, with students performing experiments in the electrical engineering labs from the age of twelve.

Now the Ministry of Education has stipulated that intermediate students at general education schools are also to be introduced to technical subjects at an earlier stage. The general education schools have been agreeing cooperation arrangements with technical schools in order to ensure the required level of technical education for their students. This is also what happened at the Instituut Sint-Paulus. To provide the necessary space to meet this demand, headmaster Stef Meynendonckx had Lucas-Nülle equip four new technical rooms with laboratory furniture and experiment equipment.

Technical director Daniël Swinnen is very pleased with the result: “We are delighted that our students can acquire new skills with Lucas-Nülle’s laboratory systems.” Overcoming fears and reservations, making technology comprehensible – that is what the Instituut Sint-Paulus offers young students with laboratory systems from Lucas-Nülle.