Rotary Technology Tournament 2025
Havant Rotary ran our first Technology Tournament in March 2025. The tournament which is a STEM approved competition took place at Horndean Technology College.
24 teams of 4 students from 12 local schools took part. The Tournament challenged students to design, develop, build and test a solution to an unknown technical challenge, using materials supplied, against the clock.
The task was to build a space rocket and fire it through a hoop at a fixed height and bring it back to land within a pre-defined target area. They were provided with a bag of materials; how the task was completed was up to the individual teams.
As part of the tournament the students also produces a portfolio which detailed their ideas and plans that lead to their solution.
The students did an excellent job and the solutions were varied and interesting. Through great teamwork, nearly all the teams succeeded in the task at hand. The students were able to test their solutions using the test rigs and make adjustments up until the final judging moment of truth.
Judges and teachers both agreed that it had been an really good day and that the students had created excellent solutions to a difficult problem. The future of engineering is safe with them.
Winners were Henry Cort School who won the Foundation competition and The Cowplain School won the Intermediate section.
We were pleased that Havant Mayor Councillor Peter Wade was able to join us on the day and took such an interest in the students work. He also presented the winners with their prizes.
Next year’s tournament has already been booked for Wednesday 18th March.
Some of our current projects
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Marys Meals
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Home Start Book Donation
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