SPARK Engineering Camp Applications

Have a passion for engineering? The Sparks Engineering Camp is the perfect opportunity to learn more about the different fields of engineering, meet like-minded individuals, and try out fantastic experiments. 

One of our own, Sakir Nawaz, participated in this last year and had an amazing time.  

If you are interesting in applying for a grant to attend this camp, please see Ms. Yvette Medina this week.

This year’s Melbourne camp will run from July 8 -13, and successful nominees will be offered a free spot. 

DEADLINE: Friday, May 10 at 5:00 pm

At camp, we were separated into groups of five. We went touring around uni’s and got to explore different types of engineering.

For civil engineering, we had to test if concrete was strong enough. We also had to find the metal bars in a wall of concrete.   An aspect of civil engineering is environmental engineering.  We had to build shelters for people in Asian countries where they experienced flooding every year. We had to build house boats and see if they would float.

For mechanical engineering, we went to Monash University. We created drones for a competition around Australia.  They are currently trying to build the fastest drone which would carry and deliver blood to hospitals. We had to build a metal car and use products like sponges, plastic cups, Styrofoam, and straws. We had to smash it into a wall and a computer would measure the impact and how strong the car was.

Another thing we had to do was we had to pretend a coke can had nuclear waste in it. We couldn’t hold it in our hands. We had to use materials like strings, paper clips, or straws to take the coke can and move it to the other side of the room without dropping it.

Overall, my favourite activity was for civil and aerospace engineering.  For the latter, we went into a simulator and pretended to fly planes.  There were so many activities, that I can’t mention all of them.

For anyone who is interested in engineering, I really suggest you apply for this scholarship in 2019.  It will give you the opportunity to understand engineering and give you an idea of which uni will suit you.

SAKIR NAWAZ

(From Staughton Newsletter  2018 Term 3 Issue 2)