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Shepparton News – 13 July 2012 Five students from Kyabram P-12 College will represent the school on the world stage as part of the F1 in Schools program. At a Kyabram school yesterday five students huddled around a race track.Carefully, they placed a miniature Formula 1 car, measuring less than 15cm, on the 20m track.Powered [...]
The time: Adelaide, March 2012. The event: the 2012 F1 in Schools national finals. The moment: the crowning of the newest professional class national champions, Cold Fusion. A university student stood in the crowd watching proudly as the group of male and female students from Brighton Secondary School became the first South Australians to become [...]
Matt Cruickshank, a 20 year-old student from Sydney, has realised his ambition to work in Formula One after being head hunted by Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey and the Red Bull Formula1 racing team – and he says it was the F1 in Schools competition which got him there. Matt started off in an aerodynamic [...]
Reigning world champions Top scored in best engineered design and fastest car at the 2011 world finals. The car was made up of 17 different components. It was a very advanced design. With the wheels they came up with a design that required plastic injection moulding. This is an expensive process so they put a [...]
Ashcroft High School is located in a low socio-economic area. It is highly multi-cultural and a large number of the students’ parents speak limited English or it is their second language. Industrial Arts teacher Lee Miller is at the centre of a dramatic shift which is moving throughout the school and having a positive effect [...]
Alistair Smith is the most successful F1 in Schools car designer and race engineer in Australia. He is probably the most successful designer-engineer in this competition anywhere in the world. At the age of 15 he was a two times national champion and twice travelled overseas representing Australia. Both of those times his team was [...]
Team Ignite blast to victory and crowned 2012 F1 in Schools UK national champions. ‘Team Ignite’, a team of students from Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, jumped onto the top step of the podium at today’s F1 in Schools™ UK National Finals, taking the National Champions crown and with it a place at [...]
From one day studying technical drawing at school… to becoming a national champion in Australia’s first all-girl team… to winning an award at the world finals… to a new job at the global consulting design and engineering company, Arup. In 2004 Charmila Sathianandan was a student at a Cheltanham Girls High School who was studying [...]
National Champions – professional Cold Fusion, Brighton Secondary School SA National Champions – development Rapid Racing, Engadine High School NSW National Runners Up – professional Pinnacle Engineering, Trinity Grammar School VIC National Runners Up – development Raindrop Racing, Kyabram College VIC DMO Best Engineered Design – professional Pinnacle Engineering, Trinity Grammar School VIC DMO Best [...]
The best of the best! Australia’s 26 top Professional and Development Class teams have won through the hotly contested elimination finals across the nation. They are ready to compete for a place in Team Australia 2012 which will defend the World Championship title at the next F1 in Schools World Finals. Will they break the [...]