Welcome to our Desert Wheels key stage 3 project. Here’s a quick guide to who Bloodhound are, what the project is about and what you are able to achieve.
This project is sponsored by the Aluminium Federation.
About Bloodhound Education:
Bloodhound Education is a registered charity which provides exciting, hands-on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) activities for students aged 7 upwards, as well as resources for teachers and parents to support learning in the classroom. It takes the excitement of real engineering into schools through engineering challenges, projects and workshops, using links to projects like Bloodhound LSR (Land Speed Record).
What is Bloodhound LSR:
This is a UK-based project aiming to break the world land speed record using the most advanced straight-line racing car ever built with the objectives of:
• Building a car to beat the land speed record of 763mph – faster than the speed of sound.
• To push boundaries to make engineers think in new ways and develop new technology.
• Inspire a new generation into the exciting world of engineering in order to build a better future.
About this project
This STEAM project is inspired by the Bloodhound Land Speed Record. The aim of the project is to use science, technology, engineering, arts and maths to design and build wheels for a model car which can then be tested on a simulated desert track.
The teams will be required to design and test wheels for the model car created from aluminium. Aluminium has many benefits including the fact it is an excellent heat & electricity conductor. It can reflect 95% of the solar energy it absorbs, making an aluminium roof more energy efficient. It also acts as a heat sink for computers and LED lights where heat needs to be rapidly drained away.
