Wednesday, March 23, students from the technical universities of Twente and Eindhoven experienced the first High Tech Safari. The students were invited by Innovatiecluster Drachten during the Bedrijvendagen Twente and Wervingsdagen TU Eindhoven in early March to come to Drachten. Not only to see with their own eyes the career opportunities in the high tech industry in the north of the Netherlands, but also to experience the latest high tech for themselves. A quest for the Big 5 of high tech.
Health
The students followed a full program that started with a reception and tour at BD, where it was shown how smart technology can reduce the diagnosis time for certain diseases from 4 days to 1 day. At Delta Instruments, the students got a look inside a cow and how modern measuring methods can be used to determine her health and therefore the quality of the milk.
Super
Between businesses, an oltimer bus shuttled the students back and forth, taking them to Neopost for lunch. There the students were introduced to the revolutionary wrapping machine for large (international) Web shops, which custom wraps purchases. A limousine took the students to Gorrdeijk for a lightning visit to ZIUZ, where they were amazed to see how super-sensitive cameras can produce clear video images in the pitch black dark.
Back in Drachten, the students at Norma were shown how advanced machines are used to make the most beautiful, smallest and most accurate parts from metal to plastic. The High Tech Safari ended with a tour of the Philips shaver factory.