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15-04 Product Designers visit Coca-Cola

Our Year 9 Product Design students were given an insight into a major brand during one of our latest trips.

Our Year 9 Product Design students were given an insight into a major brand during one of our latest trips.

A group of 14 students were invited to Coca-Cola Enterprise’s manufacturing site at Milton Keynes yesterday to see the Monster Energy drink production line and learn about the engineering apprenticeships on offer at Coca-Cola.

The students also learned about the history of Coca-Cola and were challenged to produce a design brief for a new drink.

CTS Teaching Assistant Caroline Walpole accompanied the students on the trip.

She said: “The students were amazed by how quick the production process is. It takes 1.5 seconds for a new bottle to be filled, labelled and date stamped.

“They were then split into groups and were challenged to come up with their own drinks. They had to make sure the packaging they used for their product could be recycled and they had to consider who their product was aimed at, what the product was and the cost.

“The Coca-Cola staff members were very impressed with our students and how enthusiastic they were.”

Another group of our Year 9 Product Design students will visit the site next week and a group of our Year 9 engineers will visit the site to find out about its engineering processes later in the year.

To find out more about what happens at Coca-Cola’s base in Milton Keynes click here

(Our students are pictured working on the plans for their drink)