The industrial automation industry is facing a worker shortage, which partly stems from misperceptions and a lack of understanding of what a career in the industry looks like.1 To help give individuals an insight into potential opportunities, our industrial control kit enables users to perform a comprehensive range of logic programming tasks using a controller and a conveyor belt/pneumatic sorting application. Students can have a go at counting and sorting parts in a similar way to industrial control technicians working on large-scale manufacturing and sorting systems in modern factories.