Showing posts with label STEM club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label STEM club. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

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.

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Torch..ing stuff at BGS






This useful kit makes two torches. One of which uses a membrane switch.

Thursday, 27 November 2008

Fibonacci tree - fun with mathematics

Here is a simple little project to create a Fibonacci tree from drinking straws.