Electric car brings engineering to primary schools

Greenpower is set develop relevant methods to introduce engineering into primary schools using the Goblin electric kit car.

The South East England Development Agency has just entered into a contract with Greenpower to deliver a programme designed to develop relevant methods to introduce engineering into primary schools via the Goblin electric kit car route.

Selecting two diametrically different areas so that as many lessons as possible can be learned during the programme, Greenpower will supply twenty-five Goblin kit cars to twenty-five volunteer primary schools in East Sussex and Portsmouth.

Assembling a full sized electric car that the pupils will compete in when complete is a sure fire way to get to the hearts and minds of ten and eleven year olds.

Boys and girls in equal numbers become experts of electric power very quickly and, with some of the competing schools exploring windpower as a means of reducing the school's carbon footprint the pupils are developing knowledge about sustainable transport way ahead of their parents.

Each school will use a Science and Engineering Ambassador supplied by the Hampshire and Sussex Setpoints to assist the schools.

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