Science of Flight day 12th July

Students from NEW Academy, George Salter and The Kingswinford School all took part in a day run by NEWA at Wolverhampton College called "Science of flight". It was a series of workshops that all groups rotated around.

The day was kicked off by a talk by Mark Richards about how to make rockets and planes from household objects when on a budget. 

The rest of the day was made of four workshops. In helicopter egg drop teams had to build a helicopter that would protect an egg when dropped from a staircase around 5metres high. This workshop was the most popular due to the fact the students enjoyed a challenge!

Nottingham Trent University Forensic lecturers ran a ballistics workshop in which the students got to identify bullets and learn about how they travel through the air. 

The third workshop was lighter than air was all to do with helium! The students got to swim our helium fish and shark around an assault course, calculate how many balloons it would take them to get off the ground and sit in an F1 car! 

The last workshop was air surfing. The students made jagwings and big mouths which (with enough skill!) surfed the air! This workshop was the most challenging, but most students worked out how to surf them with ease.

Overall the feedback for the day was extremely positive- 100% said they enjoyed the day and 100% said they would come back if we ran one next year!