Website address

Forgot to post the web address: www.f1tigers.com

Website Launched!!

We launched our new website on Friday. The website was created on a free flash creator called WIX.com, We found it very easy to use and we are very hapy with the quality of the finished website!! Now roll on the finals on Thursday!

Back from Mid Term Break!

With 16 days to go to the F1 in Schools National Final we came back to school. We have lots to do, alot to do in 16 days. Our car design is nearly finished and we will make the car on wednesday. We also have finished looking for sponsors so we can get the t shirts made up. We have to doctor our stand as it was slightly too big. More news later!

Sponsors to beat the band!!!

We have turned up the hunt for sponsors a notch and after alot of chat, walking, and explaining we are delighted to annouce that the we have gotten a number of new sponsors; they are:

Carraig Kitchens
Fastfix
Handyman Matters.com
John Laverty Motor Factors
CTI Business solutions,
Dublin Providers Limitedm
Daly Brothers timber yard,
Castletown Pharmacy,
Mc Evoys,

Weve also been promises more so watch this space!!

Web Site Comes On

Today we had a de-briefing session on what happened on Friday last at the regional finals. We looked at what we could do better, and where we could improve our marks in the competition. We came up with a list of stuff to do:

- Better stand design.
- Better website.
- More sponsors
- Better communication with sponsors
- Faster car with lower drag.
- A sponsors booklet.

And a few tricks up our sleeves!!

Best Engineered Car and through to Irish National Finals!!

Were through! We had a great day in dublin today, where we got best engineered car and got through to the national finals. More on this later!!!!

Manufacturing Begins!!

Today we started to learn how to use the Boxford HSRi2 CNC router that we have in our school. First we weighed all the balsa blanks, as the one we were sent from the ICS this year very dark in colour and seemed heavier than the others we had! So we weighed them one by one and then wrote on them the weight in grams.

Web Design

Found a great website that shows how to desing a website using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Its called www.thesitewizard.com.

Website under construction!!

Last night we registered our website "address". We bought www.f1tigers.com. we hope to use the software in the school to design a website. We have a booklet from the NCTE on web design. So keep an eye on this address in the near future to see our site in operation!!

Drag Tunnel Nearing Completion

Today we met after school to work on our drag tunnel, We designed it using solidworks and we made it in the metalwork room. It is going to work using a vacum cleaner to suck the air out of the tunnel to simulate the air going over the car as it moves forward. There will be a platform where the car will sit and the car will be held with fishing line. On the other end of the fishing line will be a weight, the same weight as the car. This weight will sit on a digital scales, as the car is sucked back the weight will lift and the give a figure for the drag of the car. Here are some pictures of the half finished tunnel.

Back after our Xmas Holidays

Back in school again after our christmas holidays. We Have not had a meeting for a while because we'd the christmas tests. Over the chirstmas we designed the sponsors box and will start cutting these out on the laser cutter from next week. We looked at what to put into the box and bought a few samples of stuff in IKEA over the holidays! Next week in our 1st meeting back we are going to look at the car design again, mostly look at reducing surface friction on the body of the car and then reducing mechanical friction in the wheels.