P4/5 got together with P4/5 from Bowmore Primary for some engineering challenges based on disasters. The children learned about the range of different engineers and how their problem solving abilities really come in to their own is disaster situations. First the children had to design a collapsible, portable stretcher to transport a patient (potato) to hospital. They then learned about the hurricane which resulted in the air traffic control tower being destroyed and having to be quickly rebuilt to allow aircraft in with aid and other supplies. They had to build a tower of at least 30cm which would support a tennis ball in a simulated hurricane.
