St. Joseph’s Host Inter-school Engineering Challenge

today as part of the Glasgow Science Festival. Two pupils from our cluster schools came together from the following primaries:

St. Joseph’s R.C. Primary
Portpatrick Primary
Drummore Primary
Sandhead Primary
Park Primary
Leswalt Primary
Kirkcolm Primary
Sheuchan Primary

The children were set an engineering design and construction project to make a free standing exercise bike for a gym. The specification was that the exercise must have:

2 wheels that spin when the pedals are turned
A length of no more than 2 grey construction rods
A seat for the rider
Handlebars
Wheels fixed in a frame for static peddling

Marks Sheering from Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) and Sheena, STEM ambassador joined us to be our judges. It wasn’t an easy task, as the children had been very creative and inventive with their constructions.

Ava said the most challenging part was trying to fix the pedals. Myra’s favourite part of the challenge was achieving success in getting the pedals to turn.

First place was awarded to Leswalt , Sandhead were runners up.

All agreed that everyone was a winner with their sterling effort.