The St Patrick's College/SurveyLab Link
Jeremy talking to the students about SurveyLab
In 2003, staff at the Technology Department of St Patrick's College, Wellington, was contacted by Futureintech Facilitator Phil Sadgrove with a proposal. Phil had been cold-called by a pair of young electonics engineers Leon Toorenburg and Jeremy Gold. Their company, SurveyLab, was developing a new survey tool, which, if early market reactions were any indication, was going to do well. Offshore sales of the device were taking off, and Leon and Jeremy felt the time was ripe to "give something back". After reading about the Futureintech programme the pair contacted Phil and asked him if he knew of Wellington city schools who could do with some help?
A meeting, between the school and the business was set up and this proved to be the start of a very fruitful two-year relationship, with Leon and Jeremy making regular visits to the department, helping out with workshop projects, mentoring students, and providing the technology teachers with technical help.
