Next session

As mentioned the next session will be the first week back after half term.
Check the calendar in Mr Geekie's room at school, that will be Tuesday 23rd February. This session will explore how we can calculate the volume of the balloon.

Hot air balloon session 3 - finishing balloons

Really enjoyable session - here is an impression of the evening. The balloons will be launched after half term and it should be a bit special. We will need good, still weather - so let us keep our fingers crossed. The very next session will involve mathematics and examine the method of calculating the volume of the balloon.

Ballooning along - session 2

Mr. Geekie had stiff, sore knees after cutting all the profiles of your balloons. They are coming on well. Mr Hamshaw-Hart will look at volume calculations next week - an exciting prospect involving some deep maths!

Hot air ..........................balloon, starting the project

Okay here we are again, great to be back. I want everyone to make a hot air balloon - a BIG one which we can launch from school. We will look at air mass and also - using applied mathematics, calculate the volume of the variable shape balloon. This will be particularly interesting. Also we will look at CAD and how we can generate a swept profile thus creating a 3d object as a drawing.

Next meeting is on 19th Jan 2010

Wow 2010 already.
The next session is looking at air density and we aim to start making some hot air balloons, Mr Geekie has made a large form for us to trace around - can anyone tell Mr. Geekie the correct name for this segmented shape???
Hope to see you all soon - Mr. Geekie

F1 with a Geography slant and creating a newspaper front page

Change of date this week Wed. not Tuesday

Hi everyone sorry to mention this at this late stage but both Mr. Hamshaw and I are both unavailable for Tuesday this week HOWEVER we have re-scheduled for the Wednesday.
It is an important meeting when we will give you details of the next F1 challenge from which we hope to enter a national competition.
So, Not Tuesday 17th but Wednesday 18th.