Engineering Inspirations 2006

The prestigious Engineering Inspirations Education Showcase took place at the Yorkshire Air Museum on Wednesday 5th July.

Guest speaker at the event was Professor Tony Robards, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Relations at the University of York.

The solar boat challenge - click here for more details

There were a number of activities for students to get involved in as they awaited the results of the judging. These included the crazy catapult challenge, the Electronics Yorkshire mobile training unit, the solar boat challenge, making and launching paper rockets and planes, the final of the regional Mechathlon (mechanical athlete!) challenge, and to the amusement of the students, even teacher challenges were organised!

The overall winner this year, taking the Sir George Cayley Cup to Archbishop Holgate's School, was John Hattam with 'Vista' - a flat pack contemporary lectern.

John Hattam's VIsta, Overall Winner, Engineering Inspirations 2006

The event was organised by NYBEP and sponsored by the Learning and Skills Council North Yorkshire, along with many other businesses and organisations.

Click here to see all the entries for the 2006 event.

Winners

Investigative Project (11-14)

PIC Project

Hannah Corps

Bedale High School

 

Investigative Project (15-16)

Samsung S800

Andrew Walner

Archbishop Holgate's

 

Investigative Project (16+)

Modular Re-cycling System

James Ravenhall

York College

 

Product Innovation (11-14)

Cycle Indicators

Sophie Avison Helena Chadwick Alice Kelly

Skipton Girls High School

 

Product Innovation (15-16)

Touch Rugby Jacket

Katie Gilbert

Tadcaster Grammar School

 

Product Innovation (16+)

Sculptural Clock

Charlotte Boon

Skipton Girls High School

 

Engineering Solution (11-14), sponsored by The Barnes Wallis Memorial Fund

Hands On

Emma Dixon Robyn Lavery Phoebe Moffat

Skipton Girls High School

 

Engineering Solution (15-16), sponsored By The Barnes Wallis Memorial Fund

Tracker Transporter

Timothy Gilpin

Archbishop Holgate's

 

Engineering Solution (16+), sponsored By The Barnes Wallis Memorial Fund

Designers Chair

Emma Friend

Rossett School

 

Graphics Product (11-14)

Out on a limb

Sophie Hunter Emma Doughty Lucy Power

Archbishop Holgate's

 

Graphics Product (15-16)

Sony 360

Jason Hollis

Archbishop Holgate's

 

Graphics Product (16+)

Advertising & Promotion for Band

Mia Tennant

York College

 

Control Systems (11-14)

Three Blind Mice

Gregory Ashby Andrew Mathison Joseph Beaumont

Archbishop Holgate's

 

Control Systems (15-16)

Cad/Cam Themed Acrylic Light

Emily Davies

Harrogate Grammar School

 

Control Systems (11-14)

Occational Table

Alexander Mungrod

Harrogate Grammar School

 

Sustainability Award (11-14)

Maid 4 Sail

India Smith Priya Madhas Emma Sokoll Aneesah Husain-Qureshi

Bradford Girls Grammar

 

Sustainability Award (15-16)

Soap Box Racer

Emily Mitchell Zoe Andrews Julia Patterson Danielle Startin

Bradford Girls Grammar

 

Sustainability Award (16+)

Solar Hot Water Demonstrator

Andy Spencer

York College

 

Enterprise Challenge (11-14), sponsored by North Yorkshire TEC Memorial Fund

Oceanopolis

Lydia Shepherd Arushi Jain Jaqueline Li

Bradford Girls Grammar

 

Enterprise Challenge (15-16), sponsored by North Yorkshire TEC Memorial Fund

Lighting Project

Jamie Lakin

Fulford School

 

Enterprise Challenge (16+), sponsored by North Yorkshire TEC Memorial Fund

Copper Water Feature

Kevin Grange

Harrogate High School

 

YORTEK Award For Schools (11-14), sponsored by YORTEK

Out on a limb

Leonie Taylor Eddie Coop Nathan Johnson

Archbishop Holgate's

 

YORTEK Award For Schools (15-16), sponsored by YORTEK

Vista

John Hattam

Archbishop Holgate's

 

YORTEK Award For Schools (16+), sponsored by YORTEK

Trike

Richard Crapper

Bootham School

 

George Cayley Cup for the Overall Winner, Engineering Inspirations 2006, sponsored by Creative Minds and Yorkshire Air Museum

Vista

John Hattam

Archbishop Holgate's

 

Mini-Robot Wars 2006

For the first time at the E.I, we had the regional final of the Engineering a Better World project Mini-Robot Wars. Sixteen Teams took part in a knockout event and the last team still "standing" at the end was the winner.

There were some real rough and tumble bouts, leading up to a very closely fought final, eventually being won by "Fireball", well done a finely engineered robot.

Remember, for this event it is the quality of the build that provides for reliability in the arena that counts as well as the skill in handling the robot.

The next Mini-Robot Wars event will be held in February at the Venture Fest on York Race course (not actually on the course, but in the stands). For further details contact Yvonne Emmerson at NYBEP.

Robot Sumo Wrestling

Robot Sumo Wrestling is a very challenging project requiring not only very good engineering skills but a sound understanding of how to program a PIC micro-controller chip. All the information for building a robot wrestler is available on the website or from Yvonne Emmerson at NYBEP .

This was the first time a regional event was held for this competition and only four teams managed to bring a working robot to the competition, which still lead to an interesting final bout with Spider winning for the first time.

There will be another event at next years E.I. So there is plenty of time for other teams to get designing and building their robots so that we can have a really hotly contested final in 2007. So come on all you budding robotic engineers, get working on it.