Bede's Galactic Challenge

Today a group of Years 6, 7 & 8 pupils travelled to Bede's Senior School to participate in 'Bede's Galactic Challenge'. Throughout the competition, pupils were placed into teams and were tasked with creating a presentation following a press release from the Foundation Society, which answers a request for a proposal. 

The teams throughout the day worked in specific sectors and management positions, imitating that of an actual aerospace design team. Structurally they tackled problems such as a lack of gravity, durability, radiation and thermal heating levels, and the ability to construct on a body as icy and rocky as a comet. Operationally they tackled water and food consumption, power demands, and acclimatization.

On the other hand in the human engineering sector, they tackled leisure, research, and residential layouts. Finally, automatically they were tasked with constructing a number of robots, rovers, and transportation methods that allowed the scientists to carry out their occupational tasks.