Rotary Technology Tournament 2026
Havant Rotary ran our second Technology Tournament in March 2026. The tournament which is a STEM approved competition took place at Horndean Technology College and featured 19 teams of 4 students from 10 local schools.
The Tournament challenges students to design, develop, build and test a solution to an unknown technical challenge, using materials supplied, against the clock.
This years task was to design, construct and successfully test a vehicle to travel along a pipeline and move debris to the end of the pipeline. The students were told that this task simulates what happens in the 900 Alaska pipeline.
The students 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. . The students were able to test their solutions using the test rigs and make adjustments up until the final judging moment of truth.
It was a taxing task and the students should be really proud of what they achieved. Resilience was the key with lots of testing, refining and re-testing. As usual there were some nice successes and some heroic failures.
Judges and teachers both agreed that it had been an really good day and that the students had created excellent solutions One of the great things is to see the teams work together. The future of engineering is safe with them.
Winners were Cowplain School who won the Foundation competition and UTC Portsmouth who won the Intermediate section.
The date for next year's tournament will be confirmed shortly.
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