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.

Sled kite workshop

Here are some images from the evening session from the 18th May 2010.
Sled kites are a reliable introduction into kite making and everyone succeeded in making a kite which flew well. It can be folded up easily for use later.

Balloon launch ... and chase, more to come

Balloons

Pictures to come soon, what an evening. We launched successfully in the school hall and established that all was well with our balloons. Unfortunately the weather proved rather too blustery for efficient flying. This resulted in our frantic chasing after the liberated balloons only to see some unfortunate outcomes. One balloon was swallowed up by the local quarry ..... we think, and another after dodging a tree, became a torn victim of dubious retrieval methods.
We hold one balloon in reserve to fly in calmer conditions.

F1 with Mr.Hamshaw-Hart

We have made some great progress with F1 - Mr. Hamshaw-Hart will explain to students tonight. Next session will be F1 and the following will be the BALLOON launch - weather permitting.
Mr. Geekie and Mr. Goodwin have been at a year 7 parents' evening.

F1 and out .... for now

We ran a race to determine the details of our winner so we could send thes off for the regional competition, so fingers crossed
We will pick up the STEM CLUB after Easter. It will be the third week back when we will hopefully launch our hot air balloons.
Check the calendar in Mr. Geekie's room.

Calculating balloon volume

Mr Hamshaw led a very interesting session showing students how to calculate the volume of the balloons they had made. This involved references to calculus and also using some very clever software.
JG LHH