Cranes Hydraulics Power and Propulsion 

Rocket Rescue -Cranes, Pulleys and Rockets

For KS2 (year 5/6 ) or KS3

Funded by Royal Academy of Engineering. Project has Adapted to work around COVID restrictions and with funding available until end of February 2022 for young people to -

• Join workshops on the MV Balmoral, a large ship in Bristol's Harbour and go up Bristol's historic cargo cranes or have kits delivered to complete the project in schools
• Work with engineers in person or online ('DIY Video Conference kits' are supplied to schools enable student-teams to work remotely with an engineer)
  
• Use engineering to better understand migration, global transport and our post colonial world

What?

• A team engineering challenge that explores how ropes, pulleys and ballistics were used to save lives at sea
• Teams will build a pneumatic launcher that launches a rocket to a shipwreck. They then construct a pulley system to connect a pulley system from ship-to-shore to bring passengers and crew to safety
  
• If working on the ship in Bristol's Harbour teams will also go up and operate a historic cargo crane
  
• Engineers from diverse jobs work with 4 student
  
• Workshops in school will be facilitated by engineers on-line using DIY Video Conference kits
• Teams present imagined re-enactments of rescues at sea using history, storytelling and drama
• Appreciation of what pulls and pushes people to migrate and how this shapes our post colonial world
• Opportunities for children to talk to people who have migrated 

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Cranes and Hydraulics for Key Stage 2 and 3 (Ages 9 to 13)

Workshops are held in museums, construction industry trade fairs, schools and on-board a ship in Bristol's Harbour giving young people the chance to operate a cargo crane.

What?

1. Team-building - teams of quiz their engineering ambassadors before introducing them to the rest of the class
   
2. Science demonstrations: forces, mechanical advantage and hydraulics 
3. Building challenge - construct the robotic arm from from card, tubing, split pins and paper clips and syringes to create a wrist, elbow and shoulder capable of lifting from floor to table
   
4. Meet the experts - talks and demonstrations and the chance to operate a crane
5. Compete with the robotic arm - time trials. Teams identify defects in their machine and teamwork to engineer improvements
6. Winners awarded and round up 
   

Cranes for Key Stage 4 (Ages 14 to 16)

1. Design and engineer their own version of a hydraulic arm to enable greater reach  
2. Explore lifting and access  technogy with industry experts and present their own concepts for the future of this industry to a panel of judges

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Costs

Rocket Rescue is funded by Royal Academy of Engineering until end of February  - schools will pay no more than £5 per student

A travel initiative is available for partner schools 

Sponsors and business partners reduce the costs and a travel initiative is in place

Cranes and Hydraulics anticipates funding from the industry sector - which will reduce the costs for schools 

The maximum cost of a day workshop with STEM volunteers and demonstrations from industry partners is £1300.

Please contact us to discuss fees.