Rotary Technology Tournament 2009

Wed, Mar 11th 2009 at 12:00 am - 2:00 am

Rotary Technology Tournament 2009. Local students raced to prepare, design and construct a meteorological satellite in competition with other students (and their teachers too)


This year we moved to a new venue - Weston Favell School, Booth Lane South NN3 3EZ. Over 50 teams (most of whom actually registered beforehand) participated. They have put up on their website more pictures of the day.

The Mayor came to 'work the crowd' and the Weston Favell Head came down to see all was well. And the local 'rag', the Chronicle and Echo reported on it in the paper on 17th March

4 Representatives from the Rotary Club of Huntingdon came along to observe, as they are considering holding a similar event down their way.

Prizes were presented by representatives from both the National Space Centre and Sloane Helicopters. Cool, eh?

Next year

We shall be running the Technology Tournament again in 2010, on Wednesday 17th March.

Schools

Why not put a link from your own website to this page? We have put up here some pictures taken by our official photographer, Tony Rundle. Want a full-sized copy of any of them? Email our official photographer, Tony Rundle via the link on the Communications page.

We also ran a concurrent journalism competition and hope to be able to publish copies of the reports soon after the event.

The schools who attended, with several teams from each, were: -

Abbeyfield School

Bishop Stopford School

Brooke Weston Academy

Campion School

Guilsborough School

Kingsthorpe College

Lodge Park Technology College

Manor School & Sports College

Montagu School

Montsaye Community College

Moulton School

Northampton Academy

Sir Christopher Hatton School

Sponne School Technology College

The Ferrers School

Thomas Becket Catholic School

Weston Favell School

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