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Over the past year S3-S5 pupils of the Design and Technology STEM club have been building a Rampaging Chariot to compete at the Scottish Robotic Games 2015. This project involved designing and engineering a remote controlled robot using the motors and batteries taken from two cordless power drills.

Pupils competed in three events: robot sumo, robot obstacle assault course and robot football. The team managed to reach the quarter finals of the robot sumo and the semi-finals of the football but had to concede defeat, when unfortunately our robot became irreparable due to excessive damage.

The department would like to say a massive thanks to the team for their efforts in engineering the robot and in competing at the Scottish Robotic Games. Furthermore the department would like to thank Ken Maxted (STEM ambassador) for his assistance with the club. Finally well done to Alex Bowman, Sam Sloan, Alastair Wood, Matthew Anderson, Rumaisa Zubairi, David Christie and Ross Johnstone.

The team will begin rebuilding the robot in August 2016 with an aim to compete once again at the 2016 games.

A group of S1/S2 pupils have been involved in the BAE Systems engineering challenge. This involved pupils engineering a model boat from card and basic materials working alongside and ambassador from the company.

Pupils were tasked with the challenge of designing a boat that could stay afloat as long possible when varying amounts of weight were applied and sail in a straight line when powered by a motor. The pupils involved had to think about the design of bulk heads and how to protect the card from softening in water. This was tested fully when BAE drilled holes into the side of the boat and tested how long it would stay afloat whilst taking on water.

The pupils won the afternoon session and came fourth overall. In addition to this, pupils won the award for best looking boat.

The department would like to thank BAE and Mr Rich for supporting the pupils in this challenge. We would also like to say a massive thanks to the pupils involved, for all of their hard work and effort. The pupils involved were: Stanley Hay, Connor Black, Jack Addie, Iliane Hifi and Amin Hife. Well done!

 

 

The Williamwood High School – Design and Technology (STEM) club, The Young Engineers and Science Clubs Scotland and The Rampaging Chariots Guild proudly present;

A challenging engineering project aimed at interesting young people in engineering by involving them in an exciting social and technology learning project to construct radio controlled sporting robots to compete in a National competition.

The aim of the project is to interest young people in the fun of technology and engineering through the construction and operation of a powerful featherweight sporting robot to compete in the Assault Course, Sumo and 2-a-Side Football Competitions at the Scottish and UK Robotic Games. The project is aimed at young people aged 13 to 18 from youth organisations and school clubs.

The project educates young people involved in citizenship, project management, leadership, personal discipline, engineering, science, electronics and mathematics. It also teaches important social skills such as how to work as a team to achieve a challenging goal. The radio controlled sporting robots weigh about 10kg and are big and powerful enough not to be considered as toys.

S1-S3 pupils of the design and modelling club have been working hard designing and manufacturing their STEM solar powered race cars and PIC control cars. They are currently engineering and testing the electronic components and software for the cars and have produced vacuum formed plastic shells to enhance the aesthetic features of their designs. For further information, see the extra-curricular section of the departmental website.

Fourth year pupils experienced an informative and enjoyable day out at the Glasgow School of Art where they took part in workshops organised by graduates of the Product Design Engineering course and had an opportunity to take in the graduate exhibition.
This fantastic initiative afforded pupils the opportunity to understand the relationship between Maths, Science and Technological subjects as a foundation for a career path in design.

The day was organised by Mr Honeyman (Physics) and Miss Gallagher (Design and Technology).