The Institute of Mechanical Engineers annual cardboard boat race and the IET funded workshops “all about boats”
Here we teach pupils to become engineers! We provide a thoroughly hands on (wet) STEM session to cover the topics of materials, buoyancy, Archimedes principle, boat design, scale drawing, scale models, testing, refined planning and boat building.
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The Institute of Mechanical Engineers Cardboard boat race 2016
“Awesome” Reu
“That was epic” Benji
“Overall enjoyed the session. Had lots of fun working in a team and making our own boat. Also learnt about the life of an engineer.” Stoke Dameral Community College, Year 10 pupil.
Words to describe the session by the pupils were:
Inspiring, educational, interesting, fun, educating, team, great, experience, inspirational, peng, good, entertaining, fun, creative, tricky, teamwork, fun and educational.
“Peng” I believe is the new term for “cool”…….
The word the year 10 student reported that they learnt during the session were:
Buoyancy, air space, mass, displacement, measurement, water, moon, cardboard, HE, STEM, cardboard, buoyant, steerage and Scrombus (which is the Latin name printed on the label of the fish I used to show hydrodynamics!).