Last week was the culmination of two terms of love, sweat and tears in developing an F1 in Schools team to compete at the Metropolitan Sydney Regional Finals. This competition will be held at Newington on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 October. In preparation for the event, 14 Newington teams have been engaged in designing a CO₂ powered car using CAD (Solidworks), a CNC milling machine to manufacture their cars and completing a poster or a portfolio outlining the design process. These teams competed against each other to determine our team for the Regionals. I would like to formally congratulate the following boys:

Cadet Class:

MEAQ – Evan Favos (7/ME), Mitchell Fitzsimmons (7/FL) and Alex Bulley (7/LE)

SpeedDemons – Joshua Laffer (7/MA), Anton Maraldo (7/ME) and Roger Li (7/FL)

Sonic – Arthur Baris (8/ME), Alexander Barrat (8/JN), and Cooper Thomas (8/MA)

Development Class:

Kinetic – Ashan Karunagaran (9/KL), Anooj Ghadge (9/MA), Rowan Smith (9/PR), Kishain Pather (9/MO) and Tom Creevey (9/ME)

Vector – Sebastian Iannuzzi (8/MO), Sam Gilfedder (8/MO), Peter Ioannou (8/PR), Lachlan Garner (8/LE) and Adam Goodman (8/LE)

Professional Class:

Zipper Effect – Alastair Bate (9/ME), Zi Chen (9/PR), Felix Shannon (9/PR) and Justin Tran (9/PR) and ‘Zippy’

For more information regarding this world wide competition, please see http://www.f1inschools.com/.

Call for Judges

We are now just a few judges short … Tuesday 16 October is your chance to step up to the plate! We are looking for people willing to be judges at the Regionals of the F1 in Schools Technology Challenge, held at Newington College.

Being a judge is a challenging role. You will meet some of the top technology students in the world. Your knowledge will be challenged by students as young as 12. There is much that the students will teach you and at the end of the day you will be exhausted, but you will be inspired beyond your imagination.

REA hosts State-wide competitions of the F1 in Schools Technology Challenge in most states and territories.

At this level of the competition, students are assessed on a full range of marking criteria including Engineering knowledge, marketing, verbal presentations and pit displays. The top scoring teams are then invited to represent their State or Territory at the National Final.

If you, or someone you know, would like to help as a judge at one of our events please email Mr Paul Honeywill.