"We're in 60 countries with 28,000 schools”
Andrew Denford
The youth of today. How often do we, shall we say, more senior types decry them?
But if you want your faith in youth restored, or simply established because you never had such faith in the first place, then I suggest you get yourself along to an F1 in Schools event.
F1 in Schools, for students aged nine to 19, is one of the UK’s largest competitions in STEM – that’s science, technology, engineering and maths.
The contest at its core is simple: teams design and make a miniature F1 car to be propelled by a compressed gas cartridge down a 20-metre track against the clock. But as we know from Formula 1 proper, designing and manufacturing things to be faster than everyone else is far from simple.
So F1 in Schools is about seeking the next generation of engineering talent. But even so it’s about much more, as it is a holistic challenge. Teams also raise sponsorship, market themselves, develop a project management plan, perform a verbal
