Material Girls

During National Science week, girls from Year 9 at Bingley Grammar School, Hanson School and Immanuel College enjoyed a day of activities about "Materials". During the morning session, the task was..."Making Crash Helmets for Eggs!". The winning team were the team that produced the lightest crash helmet that protected the egg when dropped from a great height!

"I enjoyed making the crash helmets, I learnt a lot about shock absorbing and originally I thought that the bubble wrap would be the best but it wasn't"	Crash helmet construction	"Crash helmets!...something that you don't get to do a lot!"
Weighing the eggs and crash helmets	Testing them!	Dr Diane Talbert, from the Institute of Materials, Metallurgy & Mining gives a lecture, yes a lecture! "It was surprising how much there was to learn" "This was very interesting - I particularly liked the kettle that changed colour" "Excellent - very informative"

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