Engineering Activities

As well as on going projects H-STEM is involved in a number of one off engineering activities. These include activities such as trebuchet challenges and scrapheap challenge type events.

Again based upon engineering principles these enhancement and enrichment activities give students a chance to put into a practical context the lessons learned in their STEM subjects. As these activities are based on real life design problems it gives students the opportunity to put a real world relevance onto their curriculum work.

As well as enhancement and enrichment our activities can be directly linked to curriculum areas or provide the basis for schemes of work.

The photos below show an engineering diploma student from Leiston High School working on a CAD model of a clock ready for prodcution in our RP machine and an LED tourch developed as an engineering diploma project.

An area that we are very keen to develop is that of wind turbine design. The east of england is rapidly becoming a hub for the production of british built wind turbines and in light of this we are working on a number of wind turbine projects. These range from simple one piece blades created from ABS pipe (pictured) through to profiled blades produced on our CNC machinery.