Kirkcudbright Academy has bolstered its outstanding Components 1 heritage by racing to success in a nationwide mannequin automotive competitors.
Pupils competed within the internationally-run F1 in Faculties mission which assessments out entrants’ design and building expertise acquired via studying within the 4 STEM topics of science, expertise, engineering and maths.
Two Kirkcudbright groups took the honours following dwell races of their F1 mannequin automobiles within the Scottish finals – Galloway Engines (analysis and growth) and Stewartry Racers (greatest engineered automotive).
Depute rector Raymond Henry guided the younger Kirkcudbright designers from the grid to the chequered flag.
He stated: “College students on the academy entered six groups, of between three and 6 members, into a faculty based mostly competitors that required them to market, design and assemble a mannequin F1 automotive which was then raced alongside a 25-metre monitor.
“The highest two entry degree groups and two growth groups then progressed to the Scottish finals.”
Kirkcudbright is believed to be the one faculty on the earth to have had two former college students as Components 1 race winners, David Coulthard and Innes Eire.
Coulthard received 13 grand prix total and completed runner-up within the 2001 World Drivers Championship whereas Eire amassed 4 GP wins and claimed fourth place within the 1960 championship.
F1 in Faculties is the one academic programme that raises consciousness of STEM and Components 1 amongst younger college students the world over.
The problem includes utilizing IT to find out about physics, aerodynamics, design, manufacture, branding, graphics, sponsorship and advertising and marketing.
Mr Henry stated: “Every workforce needed to develop a advertising and marketing technique which required them to hunt sponsorship for the working of the workforce, design the race automotive utilizing industrial normal CAD software program, analyse the aerodynamics utilizing each digital and actual time wind tunnels and manufacture the automotive utilizing each 3D printing methods and CNC router.
“The academy and college students wish to thank all these concerned in offering assist, via sponsorship and monetary donations – Digital Additional and Solway Group Partnership who offered the funding for the gear required to run the competitors, and David Coulthard, Kirkcudbright Rotary, Paul Tebay, Selkirk Arms Resort, William Paul Motor Engineering, WC in Fields, MW Engineering and Manufacturing, Gallovidia Books, Pleat, Amalgam Assortment, Station Home Cookery College, Lipton-Chaney Architects
for his or her sponsorship of particular person groups.”