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The first photos are released of classrooms, training and social areas at the Medway Campus, as work gets underway on fitting out the interior of the £86million building ready for students to take up residence this September.

As the Reception Pavilion, East and Central Wings are handed over to MidKent College, work has begun on fitting out the interiors of the new Medway Campus in Gillingham.

Innovative design coupled with the latest technology is what's on offer at the brand new Campus, opening to students in September 2009. Departments were consulted individually to ensure their requirements for industry-standard equipment, modern computer facilities and spacious working areas were all accommodated.

Furniture and fittings will be delivered from late May onwards, but these images show the latest developments at the site on Prince Arthur Road. The Medway Campus is replacing the two current MidKent College centres at Horsted and City Way, with all courses held at these sites transferring to the new facilities. The West Wing and Performance Pavilion are due to be handed over in the coming months, and staff and students are getting ready to move into this modern learning environment, set to become the heart of further education in Medway.

Front entrance of the Medway Campus leading into the reception pavilion

The huge reception pavilion which will contain the reception, a bistro and student services, as well as the College floristry and travel agency shops which are also open to the public

One of the many hair salons for the popular Hair Design courses

The LRC - Learning Resource Centre, containing the library and computer facilities

Light and bright student social zones are areas for meeting up with friends and relaxing between classes, and will contain computer terminals for those wishing to get online

Training bays in the Plumbing workshop, one of many spacious trade workshops in the Medway Campus

Workshops feature industry-standard equipment, helping students learn using the latest technology

The modern and fresh refectory

More pictures will be available as work continues at the Medway Campus. If you are interested in finding out more about MidKent College, its courses and facilities, please contact our Course Information Line on 01634 402020 or visit the website at www.midkent.ac.uk.

For those of you that born in 1970s or 1980s, you must be very familiar with the old type sewing machine, where your mom always used it to sew some beautiful clothes with it.

Most of the sewing machine in that moment was mostly using our feet to step on it and it does require a lot of exercise indeed! If you look on the sewing machine closely, you might find that it’s really a wonderful and magnificent invention that ever created.

What do you think, if you combine the old type sewing machine with the latest technology? Isn’t this sound fabulous to you here?

Yep, what you’re about to learn today is to develop a sound visible sewing machine, where you can put all the high technology stuffs, such as equalizers and sub-titles inside the sound visible. By doing this, you’ll change the sewing sound into an awesome visible sound telegraph instantly!

The visible sound sewing machine will take the sound input and convert it into a sound wave of thread on textile. The sewing machine is synonymous with producing products in industry. Hence, it served as a fitting analogy for the project.

MonoTracer? Well here’s another vehicle classed within the motorcycle category but an entirely different concept! The Uno, designed by the 18-year old Ben J. Poss Gulak and his team is a self-balancingmotorcycle that uses a pair of gyroscopes to constantly keep its rider upright. This means it only needs a set of wheels placed together and not like anymotorcycle you’ve seen. It may not look really easy to ride but apparently it’s just controlled by an on/off switch and all you need to do to accelerate is lean forward. If you lean back, it reverses too – there’s something normal motorcycles can’t do!

I won’t even go into how it was done, it wasn’t simple, but the whole process involved the clever use of spinning mirrors, high-speed DLP projections and lots of calculations in order to get the correct and most precise positioning. The result, Star Wars TIE Fighter brought to life!