Sheffield Hallam University invited us to Weston Park Musuem to see the exhibition for the Virtual Reality and Prosthetics.
EnJunior got the chance to have a hands on experience of the virtual reality that helps aid amputees in how to use prosthetics.
We also met Kevin who is an amputee who shared his experience of using prosethtics.
Sheffield Hallam University have an amazing project that is Virtual reality with Prosethetics and
EnJunior got to learn all about the benefits of virtual reality and how it has helped prosethetics.
Project Manager Denise Eaton came to visit us and ran a session to give us a theoritcal learning about prosthetics.
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To really understand engineering at its best, we went to visit Lincoln Welding.
One of the UK's leading welding company, where we learnt the importance of welding on
how this helps with constructions such as bridges!
In the month of October we tested the wits of EnJunior members by bringing the challenge of building a spaghetti bridge.
Fantastic attempts from everyone! However there were a winning team!
Well Done Sam and Aman for winning the competition for strongest bridge!
To complete the topic of Sports, we visited St George's Stadium to understand what it took to build and
the sort of technology and engineering it has to help athletes. The stadium was magnificant and we were lucky
to visit the changing room where England players had been the week before.
In August we were lucky to have Peter Kay visit from the Football Association.
Peter talked to us about the importance of designing logos for football clubs and why technology was important in sports.
Peter joined us in understanding how reply action works and how it helps with making a sport better.
In the month of August we explored sports and prosthetics.
We had Midlands Amputee Association visit us with guest speaker Christine.
Christine came and spoke to EnJunior all about prosethetics and the importance it has for amputees.
This was great as we were able to explore biomedical engineering and see the impact of prosethetics.
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For the month of July, we learned all about water!
A visit to Yorkshire water allowed us to explore water and how it is treated.
We all had a great day! Thank you to Yorkshire Water!
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EnJunior club members enjoyed their first trip to Magna Science Centre.
The Bloodhound car event was a huge success!
The kids learnt all about the Bloodhound car!
A huge thank you to the Bloodhound team especially Nick, Big Al and Will.
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A Huge congratulations to Salma and Samia of EnJunior for winning the Bloodhound Competition.
Salma and Samia will get their team name "The Eagles" added to the fin of the Bloodhound car!
Well Done girls on making history!
Read More..."Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life."
