The British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has named this year’s recipient of the Primary Engineer Rogers Knight Award as Gary Kelleher, Product Support Sales Manager at BOMAG GB, the world market leader in the field of compaction technology. The award was made at a ceremony at the BCAS Ball, The Savoy Hotel in recognition of Kelleher’s contribution to furthering the engagement of children in STEM subjects. Kelleher was instrumental in not only working with local school teachers to demonstrate how to introduce engineering concepts to school pupils, he also brought the children’s designs to life by, visiting the school during class time, to help them build concept cars which demonstrated the importance of planning, measuring, accuracy and design. His involvement had a direct impact on the number of pupils from the school entering the Primary Engineer Programmes Leaders’ Award – a competition in which children are asked “If you were an engineer, what would you do?”, then encouraged to submit ideas for new creations solving an identifiable problem. What started off as a company CSR project reaching out to the community on the suggestion of BOMAG GB Managing Director Alan Batty, soon became a mainstream interest for Kelleher. He was nominated for the Rogers Knight Award by teachers at Sandling Primary School in Kent.
