.jpg)
GT in Schools
The Sports Car Design Challenge is a class of the F1 in Schools competition with the brief to design and manufacture a compressed air powered model GT sports cars.
The process follows closely the real life process that Engineers in automotive companies such as Jaguar follow, i.e. sketching, modelling, scanning / digitising, analysing, making, testing and racing.
.jpg)
Student teams compete against each other in regional and national championships to determine the best designed and engineered sports car in the UK. It is just like being in a real automotive design and engineering team.
LATEST NEWS
GT IN SCHOOLS APPRENTICE CLASS
This year (2010/11 season) GT in Schools are opening the challenge up to apprentices from vehicle manufacturers in the UK. The challenge will run alongside the normal GT in Schools competition but as a separate “Apprentice Class”. The rules and regulations are the same as the school competition and the same judging rules will apply.
Apprentices are invited to take up our challenge and enter one team of 3-6 members from their companies and compete against other teams at a national final event for the GT in Schools “Apprentice Class” Championship in January 2011. Download the rules and regulations and get started today!
JAGUAR SPONSORED GT IN SCHOOLS CHALLENGE CROWNS 2009/2010 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
.JPG)
A team of students from Cambridge House Grammar School, Ballymena, beat off strong opposition in the finals of the 2009/2010 GT in Schools Sports Car Design Challenge held at last week’s Big Bang Science Fair in Manchester. They had called themselves ‘Numbskulls’ but the team of four 15 and 16 year old boys had given themselves a very inapt name, as they were the cream of the teams competing in this prestigious educational initiative.
To read the full news article please click here
.jpg)
The rules and regulations can be downloaded here
To request a CD containing a PowerPoint presentation covering all aspects of the challenge and the Clay Model Process documentation click here.
