Following on from the success of the Year 5 and Year 6 STEM Challenge Day on Tuesday at the  Portsmouth High School in Southsea,  Year 3 and Year 4 competed on Thursday.
In the STEM challenge, the girls were tasked to design, build and test a visitor attraction train for Southsea seafront which involved them in thinking, planning, constructing and presenting to a panel of external judges. Our girls were super Gomer Ambassadors and won with their ‘Seasdide Stingray’!
The girls were asked to design the visitor attraction train that would run on a test track and to create the travel company branding before presenting to the judges. The panel was made up of Mrs Caroline Rose, Naval Architecture and Maritime Engineering Group Leader from QinetiQ and Mr Matthew McConnell from the School of Engineering at the University of Portsmouth.‘The day has been a lot of fun,’ said Isabelle Ricketts aged 8 from the winning team, Gomer Junior School. ‘We’ve used our design skills and worked well together as a group.’
‘The day has been a lot of fun,’ said Isabelle Ricketts aged 8 from the winning team, Gomer Junior School. ‘We’ve used our design skills and worked well together as a group.’
The school are super proud of the girls who can look forward to s special celebration by the Hugh School, at Gomer in a couple of weeks. With thanks to Mrs Wheal for organising the teams, Mrs Gardner for chaperoning the girls (Summer, Isabelle, Zoe and Kiera) for their fabulousness and the High School for inviting us. What a week of STEM – Go Gomer.