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L6 Engineering Challenge PDF
Monday, 10 October 2011
l6_eng_chall.jpgEleven girls from the Lower Sixth took part in an Engineering Challenge at Deeside College on Tuesday 4th October, 2011. The girls were divided into teams of 3 or 4 mixed with pupils from other schools to complete the challenge. They had to use electric motors and K-nex kits to build a working model of a cable spinning machine. In real life, such machines make electricity cables from many strands of copper wire in order to carry high currents in, for example, the National Grid. The models used reels of cotton instead of wire, but still needed to twist 4 strands together and then wind it round a drum. The teams were also judged on their costings and the footprint of the final machine. All the 48 teams taking part succeeded in at least one aspect of this challenge and each team came up with a different solution.  Although none of our girls were in the winning teams, they all showed good teamworking and problem solving skills and should be very proud of their efforts.  It was the hardest challenge since the introduction of this annual competition.