The STEM Racing Challenge

On Wednesday the 20th of November St Andrews College hosted an interschool ‘STEM Racing Challenge’ in the junior campus hall. This competition required teams to use Computer Aided Design (CAD) to design, analyse, manufacture, test and race cars manufactured from a block of balsa wood.

This year’s competition involved thirteen teams from The Scots College, Pacific Hills Christian School, Cranbrook School and St Andrews College competing against each other. The cars raced on our school's 20m race track, where the cars were powered by C02 canisters, which enabled the cars to travel up to 80km/hr.

The following St Andrews students are to be commended for their dedication to the program:

Groups	Students
The Hotland Hustlers	Sage Cheng Jack Brewer Theodis Robillo
Falcon	Advait Paravangat Phoenix Fuimaono Aiden D’Silva Max Brewer
Adrenaline Rush	Lauren Hipolito Christopher Stowell Sleiman Awkar
Black Lightening	Elijah Andrew Agastya Patel George Thomas Thien Tong-Ho

The groups performed well on the day and all students enjoyed themselves.

Special congratulations to Elijah Andrew, Agastya Patel, George Thomas, Thien Tong-Ho as their group took out the ‘Highly Commended Car Design’ award. This is a great achievement as it’s the first year that the interschool competition has run.

Thank you to Mr Dickson, Mrs Carlos, Miss Valdivia and Mr Robson for their assistance on the day. Thank you to Miss Mifsud for her help and assistance throughout the program to get the students ready in time for the competition.

Miss Alexandra Serbin

Assistant Leader of Learning - TAS