Day – 8 Washington DC

Day 8 – Washington So much to see and so little time … Washington is a sensory overload. The holiday weekend  has Washington full of visitors here to experience the Independence Day activities.   Day – 8 video https://youtu.be/kQGj1yWvYoo  ...

Day 1: Sunday, 3 July

Arrival, Registration & Project Element Submission 21 teams representing 14 countries converged on the DoubleTree by Hilton at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry UK today to begin their campaign to be crowned the 2016 Land Rover 4×4 in Schools World Champions. Team...

Day 4 – Boeing & Seattle

BOEING, Today was a remarkable opportunity to visit the BOEING manufacturing facility to see the assemble of the 747, 777 & 787 jet liners. Unfortunately we were not able to take any pictures inside the facility but the memories will not be washed away easily. We...

Day 3 – Stanford & Google

STANFORD University, Stanford University if an absolute surprise packet.  The history is fascinating and the grounds are stunning. We have nothing like this in Australia. The University church contained the most amazing stained glass windows and mozaics. We could have...

Day 2 – Autodesk Visit

Today we had the opportunity to visit Autodesk. We started the day at the newly established Autodesk Gallery at Number One Market Street San Francisco. The gallery is dedicated to showing examples of projects undertaken with Autodesk products and covered the areas of...

DAY 1 – San Francisco

Today was the start of a three-week journey of discovery. They came from Broken Hill, Dubbo, Noosa, Cairns, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane & Sydney. Teachers and students alike, all with the goal of learning as much as possible about the application of...

Team Profile: Zircon

Team Name. Zircon. Explain how you chose your team name. Zirconium is a material that is produced at a local mine. The team name Zircon is adapted from this material. Country(s) represented. Australia. School(s) represented. Dubbo College – Senior Campus. Town of...

Team Profile: Wombat Warriors

Team Name. Wombat Warriors Explain how you chose your team name. Initially we called ourselves the Combat Wombats – Wombats was chosen as it is a rascal like mini bear that can be very playful, surprisingly fast for its shape and a very, very tough Australian animal...