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TEACHER FEEDBACK
"Excellent presentation and support for the children"
V Brady, Parkgate Jnrs
"It was a great day - thank you very much"
A Banks, Pirton
"A fantastic session - thanks. The children learn't lots of new skills and to see them solving problems was fabulous"
V Hazell, Harwood Hill
The 2010 K'Nex Challenge
Number of participating schools: 84
Number of participating children: Approx: 3500
The Challenge: This years challenge was to build a windmill.
Criteria:The windmill had to have four sailsBe at least the height of an A4 piece of paperInclude a door for Prince Arthur to enter .Include a turning handle to manually rotate the sails in the event of no wind blowing.Include a platform for Prince Arthur to stand upon to turn the handle for the sails.Plus extra points were awarded for a working set of gears to help rotate the sails
* CONGRATULATIONS *
To the winning team, chosen to go through to the National Finals at Duxford:
Toby Warr & Daniel Shrimpton
from
Garden Fields Primary School
Toby & Daniels windmill had both a pulley and a gear mechanism which drove the grinding stones, and came very highly recommended by experienced engineer Ian Williamson
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