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Education News
The BLOODHOUND SSC Roadshow visit Southgate College
Thursday, 1 April, 2010The BLOODHOUND SSC Roadshow recently visited Southgate College in Enfield who played host over two days to local primary, secondary and special schools as well as local employers.
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Women In Science and Engineering Sixth Form conference
Monday, 15 March, 2010As part of their 375th birthday celebrations, Red Maids' School, Bristol hosted a 6th form conference entitled ‘Women in Science and Engineering’ recently. Over 180 students gathered from different schools across the south west for a day of inspirational talks and fun workshops.
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BLOODHOUND SSC at the Big Bang Science Fair 2010
Friday, 12 March, 2010The BLOODHOUND team made a stunning appearance at the Big Bang Science Fair at Manchester Central.
What an exciting place to be - lots of activities for the visiting school parties; plenty of things to do, lots of noises - you can even have a go at welding chocolate!
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SE Cornwall Schools engineering awareness
Thursday, 28 January, 201060 year 8 and 9 girls from schools in SE Cornwall (Torpoint, Saltash, Callington, Looe and Liskeard) took part in a day of interactive activities to raise their awareness of engineering careers- all run by women engineers and scientists at Saltash College. The girls rotated around three exciti
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NFER Audit Report
Monday, 18 January, 2010An independent audit of the first year's development of the Bloodhound Education Programme (BEP) was undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), during the period from July to November 2009.
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Priestlands School, Lymington
Wednesday, 13 January, 2010At Priestlands we are using Bloodhound to inspire and further develop our year 8 project known as Jet Flyers. We have be evolving this project for the past few years using the ‘Mission’ TV documentary based on Thrust SSC.
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BLOODHOUND goes to Uni!
Wednesday, 23 September, 2009It’s that time of year again and campuses are filling up with new students across the UK.
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BLOODHOUND SSC Junior Engineer for Britain K'Nex Challenge National Final
Thursday, 17 September, 2009BLOODHOUND educaton delivery drector, Dawn Fitt attended the National Final of the BLOODHOUND SSC Junior Engineer for Britain K’Nex Challenge , which took place at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford recently. Dawn was invited to judge the entries.
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Redland High Juniors go supersonic
Wednesday, 16 September, 2009Rubber bands took the place of rocket boosters on Monday 15 June when the Year 6 girls of Redland High Junior School attempted to build their own versions of the Bloodhound supersonic car and race them across the playground!
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Imagineering Fair - Balloon cars at the ready!
Tuesday, 1 September, 2009August Bank Holiday 2009 and the BLOODHOUND team were taking part at the Imagineering Fair at the Country Festival held at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. The full size show car was there proudly overseeing the event, along with the 1/10 scale model and the cutaway rocket engine.