News

On the 23 June 2011 at Bluewater a schools challenge was held, in which schools were invited to bring along teams who had made a solar, electric remote control or internal combustion remote control boat. In a previous year Dane Court has won the overall title. This year Dane Court entered three teams who made three solar boats, these were made up of one year seven team, one year eight and one year nine. The teams unfortunately only had 3 weeks to build their solar boats, which was very short compared to the time the other competing schools had.

Only two of our boats competed in the race as the other boat, year nine, was not yet finished. The boat made by the team of year eights, Ellen, Esme, Ellie and Sophie, called Teriyaki Chicken went through to the final, unfortunately the year seven's boat, made by Bennett, Kane and Harrison did not make it through to the final. The last race was between six boats and was very tense! Teriyaki chicken came fifth place overall, a good result for the team. The year nine boat was found to be the quickest boat of the three after we got it working but unfortunately it was too late to compete! After the final race we watched the electric and internal combustion boats, this was very exciting and we hope to build these for next year's challenge. At the awards ceremony Dane Court won second prize for teamwork! After a hard day of racing the girls were very excited to go shopping, whereas I was not as excited or looking forward to 4 hours of shopping! The girls came out of the shopping centre wielding bags and bags of shopping. The journey home was full of talk about what they had bought and a bit of fun with Bennett's electric shock pen! We entered the monsoon weather of Thanet, and knew we were near home!

Overall a very successful day, but we hope to claim back the overall title next year!