15 WINTER 2016
Pitch Perfect is a marketing competition which gives
further and higher education students the
opportunity to create and design their own
anti-sectarian awareness campaign.
Students can use cutting edge technologies or more
traditional methods of advertising to create a
campaign which stimulates and generates interest in
Nil By Mouth’s campaign to challenge sectarianism
in our society.
The leading anti-sectarianism charity
Nil By Mouth retured to the College
on February 4th to deliver a workshop
to students on their Pitch Perfect
competition.
Students get the chance to spend a real budget,
plan a campaign and gain invaluable experience
pitching to an independent panel of experts.
Dave Scott, campaign director at Nil By Mouth,
spoke with our sport students last year to highlight
sectarian issues and how best to deal with them as
future sports coaches. Now our 24/7+ classes will be
getting his input for the exciting Pitch Perfect
marketing project.
PAMPLONA LECTURER
Engineering lecturer Paul
Harland was recently invited
by Gamesa, a global
technology leader in wind
energy, to attend a special
one-week masterclass course
in Pamplona, Spain.
This is the first time a Scottish
college has ever had the
opportunity to attend the
course, a testimony to our
reputation as sector leading
in this area.
We began offering wind
turbine technician diplomas in
2013. Paul will now look to
embed the new information
he has gathered into the
College’s mainstream courses.
Paul was shown the
fundamentals of each system
and piece of equipment that
Gamesa utilise on their wind
turbines, and heard about
how the wind energy industry
is changing.
We selected Paul to attend
the course as he possesses a
wealth of experience and an
excellent knowledge of the
industry. Before joining the
College in 2012, he worked as
a turbine technician with
Siemens.
Paul said it was “one of the best
courses I’ve attended in a long
time.”