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F1 in schools
Frog attended the F1 in Schools Primary Pilot Final last Monday at the Royal Armouries’ Leeds where VIPs and spectators watched in anticipation as 132 primary school students from West Yorkshire competed against each other to win trophies & prizes.
 The F1 in Schools Challenge is an existing international competition in its ninth year, which currently engages with secondary school pupils and teachers in over 10,000 schools from 31 countries around the world. Bernie Ecclestone, President and CEO of Formula One Management gave his support to F1 in Schools by granting the challenge a world-wide protected trademark and a new logo in 2005. Since this time the initiative has built close links with teams and personalities within Formula One. |
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 Teams from Lindley Primary School won 1st & 3rd place in the F1 in Schools Competition. The competition challenges teams of students to use CAD/CAM software to design, test and manufacture miniature compressed gas-powered balsa wood F1 cars. A purpose-built 20 metre track is used to test the speed of the model F1™ cars. In addition, participants are judged on their final car design, engineering development, team work and project presentation.
The Primary Pilot Final event took place with the assistance of a host of sponsors including Yorkshire Forward, Corus, Denford Ltd and Jaguar plus other supporters which included Frog.
 Frog designed the website and portal for the pilot project in primary schools across West Yorkshire. The four secondary schools driving the project were Brighouse High School, Salendine Nook High School, Castleford High School and Thornton Grammar School who worked as mentors and manufacturing centres for their feeder primary schools . The portal encouraged students and staff to work together on the F1 in Schools project. Teams were able to upload designs so that they could share them with other project members, as well as view designs that have been created before and participate in discussion forums to encourage collaboration with other primary schools.
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James Allen from ITV Sport who commentated at the event and also presented the awards to the winning teams at the presentation ceremony said "I've always been impressed with the work of the children in the F1 in schools programme, but the event for the younger age group in Leeds really blew my mind. There were 9 year olds looking at the problems of reducing friction in wheels, taking weight out of the chassis, improving the aerodynamics; all the things real engineers do. This challenge is opening up a really exciting new frontier." |
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