Two Felsted Prep School teams have won national recognition at the Big Bang Science and Engineering Fair in Birmingham. Year 7 girls Freya Perry, Grace Boroughs, Ava Readman and Anna White won the National Talent 2030 Engineering prize for their project the ‘Sanitary Shark’, an invention to remove waste product from the sea; helping to clean up the oceans of pollutants whilst preserving marine...
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Grace, Anna, Ava and Freya Four Felsted Prep School girls are aiming to tackle the growing problem of plastic pollution in the oceans, with a prize-winning project. Freya Perry, Grace Boroughs, Ava Readman and Anna White’s project, ‘the sanitary shark’ has been shortlisted as a National Finalist in the Talent 2030 Engineering competition. The sanitary shark focuses on removing waste...
The Royal Hospital School recently hosted the Airgineers STEM challenge, which was attended by secondary schools from across the region. Pupils designed, built and flew their own radio controlled quadcopter, often referred to as a drone. The school welcomed ten teams from five different schools to compete in the Micro Class events. The drones that were flown had previously been built by the teams using...
Children from Bromsgrove Pre-Preparatory School gathered in the School grounds to watch the launch of Bromsgrove Bear into space. The bear was strapped to a large balloon filled with helium and after a very excited countdown by the children, released into the air. Before releasing the balloon, the team from Sent Into Space produced a map with a planned area the balloon would land in, with a 5-10km...
A team of Bedford School Sixth Formers scooped third prize at the recent Barclays Blockchain Hackathon in London. Matthew Lewis, James Wallace, Alex Ward and Henry Shaw represented the only school invited to the event. They had no prior blockchain technology experience up until two days before the event, but managed to pitch their idea, set up networks, install software, develop a project and present...
Pupils at Dean Close Pre-Preparatory School recently enjoyed a ‘Design and Technology Wow Day’ whilst also raising money for the local charity, ‘IT Schools Africa'. Throughout the day, children trialled new forms of technology and designed and built the robots of the future. The day’s activities included programming and putting logic to the test using iPads, BeeBots and computers. Year Two...
Bill Burnett, the school’s Head of Science, at the Barton Science Centre Tonbridge School has recently opened its new Barton Science Centre, with students able to use its state-of-the-art facilities from the start of next term. The three-storey building is named after distinguished British organic chemist Sir Derek Barton, a Nobel Prize-winning former pupil, and places science and technology at...
Tonbridge School students have claimed second place in the national finals of the Schools’ Aerospace Challenge 2018. The team, consisting of Matt Barker (PS5), Jasper Driessen (WH5) and Tommy Rochussen (SC5), won a place in the finals after writing a report setting out some innovative technologies that the RAF could use in the future. They were one of just 12 teams from across the country invited...
Alec Scales brought classic games Frogger and Asteroids back to life An aspiring computer engineer brought an uplifting retro style to the third annual Computer Science Fair in Monmouth. Alec Scales built a pub classic arcade machine, containing the much-loved games Frogger and Asteroids. William WiltoN caused a stir with his Microbit Smart Shaker, which gave a twist to the rock-paper-scissors...
Students from Bedstone College are celebrating their victory at the regional championships of the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge. The team beat competition from a number of top-performing schools across the region at Malvern College. The United Kingdom Mathematics Trust runs an annual national competition which sees the top A-level mathematicians from schools across the country pit their wits against...
The CEO of Rolls Royce has returned to Monmouth School for Boys to inspire the next generation of scientists. Warren East CBE, the Chief Executive Officer of Rolls-Royce, was a pupil at the school between 1973 and 1980 and returned with his family to open The Relithan Science Centre on Saturday. Highlighting the importance of studying science, Mr East said a growing population would be faced with...
A group from Tonbridge School have designed and built an electric racing car for the Formula 24+ series. The school is taking part in the competition aimed at secondary schools and universities for the first time. Run by Greenpower Education Trust, the team will compete at various national motor circuits such as Goodwood and Brands Hatch in the new year. Supervised by Design Technology and Physics...
Year 7 pupils at the Royal Hospital School have reached the national finals of the STEM competition 'Race for the Line', which has been pioneered and sponsored by the Bloodhound Project. The Bloodhound Project is a global Engineering Adventure using a 1000mph World Land Speed Record attempt to inspire the next generation to enjoy, explore and get involved in science, technology, engineering and...
Rydal Penrhos hosted a Prep and Primary Schools’ Lego Challenge yesterday, which was held in partnership with STEM Cymru and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Five pupils from the Prep School, along with their local counterparts at Ysgol Pen y Bryn, took part in a series of different activities based on the theme of water, where they were tasked with working as a team to solve the challenges put in...
Felsted School has been awarded the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Silver Science Mark. The award recognises the best practice in science departments across the UK, with only 15% of secondary schools expected to meet these standards. Felsted’s science department was recognised for its teaching, strong vision and student progress in examinations, with many of them going on to...
Felsted School recently hosted a ‘Women in Science Day’ as part of National Science Week. A total of 42 girls in Year 6 from seven local primary schools participated in activities encouraging them to study STEM-based subjects and consider related careers. The day was split into three discipline-based activities in biology, chemistry and physics, where they studied animal behaviour, liquids and...