Prior to the Christmas Lecture last week in Manchester, the Network Chairman, Julie Ashurst, presented Rafal Abramczyk, Manchester College Student Excellence Prize winner with his award.



The Christmas Lecture entitled 'Thunderbolts and Lightning' by Rhys Phillips was excellent.  I never knew there were that many songs that had the lyrics 'Lightning' and 'Frightening' in them.  It was also good to see many young people at the event and I hope that some of them have been inspired by Rhy's presentation to consider engineering as a career.