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P6 Robotics BTEC Engineering Trip The Stembus
The Department’s annual Year 13 and 14 BTEC Engineering A number of students got to
Robotic Road Show is always students visited Wrightbus to visit the Stembus where they
oversubscribed. With four find out about their health and designed and manufactured a
sessions taking place over two safety practices to aid the personalised 3D printed plastic
days allowing almost 200 pupils completion of a vocational Keyfob.
to benefit from an introduction assignment.
to programming.
The pupils were tasked with
programming a robot so that it
would follow a predetermined
route and fire a missile at a
target.
Year 10
In March 8 pupils from Year 10
attended the annual Technology
Challenge held by the Rotary
Club.
Through teamwork and
discussion, the pupils designed
and manufactured a motorised
P6 Taster
The Department was in demand
yet again when over 400 pupils
The visiting pupils were guided visited the school and each child
by mentors who were Year 13 produced a plastic Keyfob...just
BTEC Engineering students. car, which successfully in time for Valentine’s day.
completed a circuit.
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