Natives List Player Setting Design Standards In F1 Competitions
June 20, 2010
Four students from Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School in Brandon, Man., have won the 2010 F1 in Schools national championship and will represent Canada at the world finals in Abu Dhabi in September, 2011.
For those of you who aren’t aware of the F1 in Schools program, but are curious, here’s a link to Nika Rolczewski’s excellent story in last Saturday’sToronto Star Wheels section.
In a nutshell, though, it’s a world-wide program funded by the existing Grand Prix teams in which students between the ages of 11 and 18 research, design, build and race F1 model cars in order to raise the profile of automotive engineering.
The top international team wins the Bernie Ecclestone Trophy and he always shows up to present it. Last September in London, where the 2009 worlds were held, he took Lewis Hamilton along with him, which was a big thrill for the kids.
Members of the winning team – nicknamed the Golden Geckos – are Dustin Sparrow and Brett Coey (they are co-design engineers), Tyler Enns (resource manager and manufacturing engineer) and Ashley Scott (team manager and graphics designer). They beat out five other finalists in the national competition held Wednesday at the Ontario Science Centre.
Second place was won by students from Dr. Norman Bethune C.I. in Scarborough (Crystal Gao, Joanna Ni, Meagan Lin, Kellen Qi, David Zhang and Lily Tran) while third-place honours went to Woburn C.I., also in Scarborough (Geethanjali Selvam, Sushani Singh, Antonia Szeto, Zarana Bavashi, Devanshi Shah and Mazlina Khan).
Other awards went to students from West Hill Secondary School in Owen Sound, Sir Robert Borden High School from Ottawa and the Scarborough Academy of Technological, Environmental and Computer Education (which is part of W.A. Porter Collegiate).
The Manitoba students were the big winners, however, collecting citations for best-engineered car, best team marketing and the judges’ choice award in addition to finishing first overall.
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