Beginning boat design - bow shapes.

Trough set up to test how long a square ended boat took to cover a set distance. Times were 1.9 seconds average. After front was cut to provide a boat shape the time reduced to 1.12 seconds.
Project to continue.
Mr. Geekie.

Calendar now "live" and on display in my room

Hi everyone - I have sorted out the calendar for this, our final year of the original 3 year plan. It is on the web site and on display in my room.
Hope to start week after next ( Tuesday 28th Sept. )
First topic to involve h2o.

Mr. Geekie

Marble bridge problem

Here students can be seen trying to solve a problem which requires transporting a marble from one tower to another.

Geography linking with STEM

An interesting idea is to employ the popular newspaper simulation within STEM. Here our Head of Geography was welcomed to the club and he delivered and interesting one off session which required students to design a newspaper front page. The context revolved around F1 racing - thus linking with our F1 work.