Engineers Week 2015 was celebrated nationwide from 8th - 14th February. Ms. McCarthy and her 1st Year Science class celebrated it by making parachutes.1st Year students explain further.
Oonagh: For Engineers Week (8th - 14th February) we made parachutes. Our parachute was done first and we tested it out at once.
Laura: It didn't work out at first but then we fixed it and we tried it out and it was very successful.
Nicole: After our parachute was completed we designed the parachute with colourful stars for show.
Alan: The outcome of our experiment was that it fell and swayed a lot, but made to the ground successfully.
Jakob writes about his group's parachute experiment - view the PDF below:
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