A record number of students walked through the gates of the Manning Valley racecourse to take part in the 2018 Mid Coast Science and Engineering Challenge.
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The week featured a series of ‘discovery days’ and attracted 33 schools from the Manning, Great Lakes and Gloucester areas.
Several schools teamed up across the week, such as Barrington Public School with Krambach Public School and Stratford Public School and second day bridge building winners Bulahdelah Central School and Elands Public School.
Across the week, students participated in eight different activities across the racecourse such as wiring a virtual city, building a miniature catapult and the infamous bridge buster.
This event is supported in particular by the Rotary clubs of Taree, Taree North, Taree on Manning Great Lakes, Tuncurry Forster, Old Bar-Forster, Wingham, Gloucester and Dungog as well as the schools and sponsored by MidCoast Water, Manning Valley Race Club, Engineers Australia (Newcastle), AGL Energy, Stratford Coal and NSW Office of the Chief Scientist and Engineer.
Special thanks to students from Taree High School, Wingham High School, Chatham High School, St Clare’s and Manning Valley Anglican College who helped supervised across the week.
The challenge was funded by the University of Newcastle in 2000 and aims to address the skill shortage in science and engineering by inspiring students to study mathematics, physics and chemistry at high school.
