We were proud to host the annual Rotary Technology Tournament this week, with twelve of our Year 10 Design & Technology students competing against over 100 students from local secondary schools, in a one-day engineering challenge. This year’s challenge was one of the most technical yet with a brief to build a vehicle capable of travelling on a cable across a crocodile infested river, to deliver a vital medical bag. None of the students knew what they would be doing before they arrived. They were given a mystery bag of materials and tools and required to use their knowledge of pulley systems and electrical circuits to solve the problem. It is all the more impressive that all three KWS teams built and tested different vehicle designs that successfully achieved this.

Congratulations to the following Year 10 students who worked as a team, came up with different ‘cable car’ designs that worked and were Ready, Respectful and Responsible in the way that they represented Katherine Warington this week: Salahdeen K, Lucas C, Hayden L, Kai K L, Thomas R, Will E, Dean H, Luke G, Olly F, Jai B, Lucien S and Enoch A. Special praise goes to Thomas, Will, Dean and Luke who took home a trophy for coming in third in their category.