Twenty-four Year 8 students from Kingswood School in Bath attended the Faraday Challenge STEM Day last Wednesday organised by the Institute of Engineering and Technology and hosted at Kingswood School.
This countrywide competition aims to promote and encourage budding young engineers, and challenge them with real life scenarios. Pupils were tasked with designing and modelling something that could help aid workers in the context of a natural disaster.
The teams had to plan, budget, develop, construct and present their ideas to the rest of the groups and the engineers,” said Olly East, Design & Technology Teacher. “There was stiff competition from the competing schools; St Mark’s and St Gregory’s came up with some innovative and creative ideas.
“However, the Kingswood team, consisting of Monty, Charlie, Orla, Leo, Sophia and Eleanor, was victorious with its solar-powered drone prototype and we wait to see if the score it achieved will put it in the national finals this summer.”
“All of the students behaved impeccably and worked extremely hard for the duration of the day – they were a credit to themselves and the school.”