Congratulations to our STEM team for coming a very respectable 4th place in the local STEM Skills Challenge Final!
Our students showed they had the skills to catapult themselves into a bright future at the finals of the engineering challenge.
A total of ten teams took part in the grand final of the The Gazette’s Young Engineers 2016 competition at Blackpool and The Fylde College’s Advanced Technology Centre in Bispham.
The challenge set to each team was to build and operate a trebuchet – a siege engine used in the Middle Ages. Each team were given a host of materials including cardboard, tape, rubber bands and metal weights to do so.
During the morning workshop session, our students used their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) skills, before taking their designs from the drawing board to the arena - where the students could test and build their machines. In addition to building the trebuchet, the final was made even more difficult as teams had to include a firing mechanism to their machines!