{"id":5056,"date":"2017-10-30T21:41:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2018-03-09T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:20:53","slug":"port-ellen-welcomes-our-rolls-royce-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/2017\/10\/30\/port-ellen-welcomes-our-rolls-royce-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Ellen welcomes our Rolls-Royce Science Prize mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We were delighted to welcome Neil Chattle, our mentor for the Rolls-Royce Science Prize, to Port Ellen on Wednesday. \u00a0Children enjoyed listening to a presentation about Rolls-Royce and Neil’s career as an engineer with the company. \u00a0They got a chance to handle some pieces of jet engines and we were all amazed how lightweight some of the components were and how the cooling systems within the engines would be able to stop ice cubes from melting in a hot oven! We were then introduced to the Bloodhound, a supersonic car powered by a Rolls-Royce engine, and got to work in teams to build a model Bloodhound powered by balloons. \u00a0Neil said that he’d never seen balloon models go so far!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were delighted to welcome Neil Chattle, our mentor for the Rolls-Royce Science Prize, to Port Ellen on Wednesday. \u00a0Children enjoyed listening to a presentation about Rolls-Royce and Neil’s career as an engineer with the company. \u00a0They got a chance to handle some pieces of jet engines and we were all amazed how lightweight some … <\/p>\n

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