Honours at Jet Toy and Skimmer Regional Olympics

AWIM (A World in Motion) and SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers), in collaboration with Maruti Suzuki India organised the Jet Toy and Skimmer Regional Olympics on 8 November, 2019. The event was held at the Maruti Suzuki Training Academy in Gurugram.

23 schools of Delhi, Gurugram and Ghaziabad took part in the mega event. Our Nava Meena, Hargun Kaur, Unnabh Das Mahapatra and Azfar Ali of class V participated in the Skimmer event while Sriyah Arora, Piyush Tomar, Akshat Singh and Rohin Kakkar of class VI participated in the Jet Toy event. 2 student volunteers from Jamia Millia Engineering College and our Schools science teachers trained our students for 3 months preceding this regional quest.

To start with, the participating students of the Skimmer event were handed a kit containing materials for assembling a toy car/skimmer. The event entailed that contestants construct paper sailboats and test the effect of the varying shapes of the sail and its sizes, its construction style and the skimmers performance. Friction, force, surface area and design were some of the concepts sought to be explored by the event.

The contestants in the Jet Toy event were required to build a balloon-powered toy car that met specific performance criteria like travel time, weight-carrying capacity and maximum speed. Jet propulsion, friction, air resistance and design were the core scientific concepts challenged in this exercise.

The contesting teams had to assign a winsome name to their teams and their toys, contrive a logo, write a succinct slogan, pen the salient features of their concept toys and present their innovations.

The fabricated creations were judged on different criteria, namely, maximum speed, maximum distance, maximum time, accuracy, maximum weight-carrying capacity, aesthetics and presentation.

Learning and fun went hand in hand. The day saw inspiring performances, dynamic track events, enthusiastic presentation rounds and scientific excellence in abundance.

Our Schools skimmer team won the first prize in Delhi Zone-2 !

The experience was a memorable one and the experimentation of key scientific concepts and skills. It kindled the imagination of the students and drew them to express their divergent thinking in their creations.