BMGS students win 'Best Team Collaboration Award' at F1 in Schools World Finals

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Congratulations to Charlie Burgess and Bill Klein who, as part of team AQUEOUS, placed 19th in the International Finals of the F1 in Schools competition, with Team AQUEOUS winning an award for “Best Collaboration Team” for their work with students from Newington College.

The Year 11 students spoke of their journey in the F1in Schools competition at this week’s School Assembly.

“Throughout these past holidays, Charlie Burgess and Bill Klein had the opportunity to participate in the F1 in Schools International Finals.”

“Being able to participate in this competition was the result of many hours of work over four competition rounds, working our way to winning the national finals and being able to represent Australia on a global stage. We came 19th in the world and were nominated for the Scuderia Ferrari Team Identity Award.”

F1 in schools has given us the opportunity to really push ourselves. Learning to use CAD software to model our cars, leading a team of people and collaborating with the product design and manufacturing industries. Through this, we have learnt a multitude of skills, in Engineering and life, and learned to see a project through to completion.”

“F1 in Schools is the world’s biggest high school STEM competition with more than 17,000 schools in 44 countries participating. The Australian team is one of the most successful in F1 in Schools. But if engineering, CAD and manufacturing aren’t your forte that’s ok. F1 in schools has plenty more to offer than just engineering. It’s all about teamwork. The competition allows anyone to grow their skills in project management, graphic design, public speaking and much more.”

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“We started our monumental F1 in Schools journey in the Design and Technology (DNT) classroom in Year 9. F1 in Schools was the primary reason we joined DNT, we both saw the Thrust Vector team compete and were amazed by the opportunity to compete nationally.”

“Of course, at the time we didn’t actually expect Perpetrol, our original team of Henry Burrel, Jayden Gibson, Casper Larkin myself and Bill Klein, to even make it past regionals, until we did, securing second place.”

“After that, we were hooked and it was on to the State competition. Our performance at the State finals included some poor time management which we labelled as ‘learning opportunities. However, despite these ‘learning opportunities’’ we secured second place and headed off to National Finals.”

“By the Nationals, we were a well-oiled machine, we had taken all of our learnings and applied them. The final day was a rollercoaster. By the time they got to announce the winner, we had counted our blessings and were sure we hadn’t placed. Luckily placing second in almost all of the awards meant we actually won taking us to the International Finals.”

“At the end of the day no matter how exhausting the workload may be, F1 in schools was a bunch of fun. The sense of comradery and satisfaction of submission is what makes this competition so great. “

Bill Klein and Charlie Burgess F1 in Schools

Bill Klein (left) with Charlie Burgess (right) prototypes of the Neptune IX.

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