Technology Tournament 2013

This year we were pleased to welcome 29 teams from:

• Borlase
• Cressex
• Highcrest
• John Hampden
• Princes Risborough
• Wycombe High
• Wye Valley

[Beaconsfield High, who have been competing in TTs for about 10 years, had to withdraw owing to staff sickness]

The task was to design and build a truck that could climb a slope driven only by a weight that turned the wheels through a system of pulleys.  It was extremely difficult and as usual it was remarkable how many different solutions were attempted.

Teams from Sir Wm Borlase's School, Marlow, won all three prizes.

Follow these links to read more about our TTs:

• Look here for some photographs of the first TT we ran;
• Here for the 2012 event, including a slide show that demonstrates just how much the competing teams get out of a TT;
• And finally a report on a TT at Waingels College near Sonning, run by the RC of Lodden Vale with our assistance.

Here is a selection of photographs of the 2013 TT: