This week saw the after-school STEM Club tackle an engineering challenge using resources provided by https://stemresources.raeng.org.uk/ which is the Royal Academy of Engineering. The pupils needed to make a glider and then test its ability to fly by altering the wings to anhydral (pointing at a downward angle) and dihydral (pointing at an upward angle) wing positions and the flaps. They then experimented with adding blu-tak and paperclips to the fuselage to see how this affected flight. Great fun was had assembling the gliders and adding their own personal touches before we moved to the hall to carry out the investigations.
Up, up and away!