Introducing the CarbonScape intern crew of ‘22
Simon Charman
Simon’s dream career is one focused on impactful projects, with practical designs that benefit our world.
That’s why the 21-year-old chose to spend his summer at CarbonScape, learning about innovative, net carbon negative biographite technology, sustainability, and the story of how a great idea led to global commercialisation.
Having just completed his third year of a Mechanical Engineering degree, Wellingtonian Simon is looking forward to applying the analytical skills he’s gained, as well as his love of problem solving, during his internship.
“Sustainability is one of the biggest challenges we face, and is the challenge I can make the biggest impact on with my engineering skills,” he says of his future career aspirations.
“Ideally, I'd be working on the practical side of things, getting to tinker with prototypes and designs to build something great, but I can also see myself working in a bigger picture role trying to understand and accelerate our response to climate change.”
Cleo Wearne
An interest in climate-friendly technology, and a goal to improve industrial technologies and processes with a sustainable focus, drew Cleo to apply for CarbonScape’s summer intern programme.
“CarbonScape biographite can make a significant change in the electric vehicle (EV) market by replacing unsustainable graphite mining practices and current synthetic production,” says the 22-year-old, who is in her third year of a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Chemical and Process Engineering, with a minor in Bioprocess Engineering.
Originally from Mount Maunganui, Cleo’s future career goals are still “quite broad”, but she was particularly interested in CarbonScape’s net carbon negative processes, and that the patented biographite technology can be applied anywhere in the world.
“I am very excited to begin my internship with CarbonScape and I can't wait to gain valuable knowledge on optimisation of industrial processes and wastewater beneficiation.”
Oscar Reid
Developing new and emerging technologies that support today’s standard of living sustainably, by making them accessible to everyday people all over the world, is high on Oscar’s future wishlist.
So CarbonScape’s processes and the focus on future sustainability appealed to the 20-year-old, who is in his third year of studying Mechanical Engineering, with a minor in Aerospace Engineering.
Oscar plans to use his summer internship to build on and refine his data and electronics skills, while learning how CarbonScape works as an organisation, and as a team.
“Hopefully I can learn from them and apply that knowledge throughout my career.”
Once he’s graduated, the Christchurch local, who’s also lived in Melbourne and Southland, looks forward to finding a graduate engineering position to spend time learning practical skills from industry leaders in his field.
