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Around the Riviera Centre and beech plywood, for lightness and strength,
and it is reinforced to meet very stringent safely
Lift-off for the Rocket standards. Powered by 12 volt batteries, the car
As mentioned in the last magazine, the Rotary has a top speed of 23mph and runs for about 90
Rocket, developed by Bideford College in Devon, minutes per race.
was on view in the House of Friendship at the
District Conference in Torquay. The club says: “While the preoccupation is with
racing the cars, it’s the skills that the students
Don Carter and the Rotary Rocket learn when building the machines that really
matters.”
With the slogan “Powered by your rotary club
name”, the supporting club, Bideford Bridge, is Greenpower is a charitable trust set up by the
pushing hard to spread the word. The starter kit Institute of Engineering and Technology to
starts at £1,000 and this should enable any school advance the education of young people in the
or college to build a car for entry into the annual sciences. It awarded Bideford College’s
Greenpower Challenge Series. Technology Department Centre of Excellence
For the technical, the Rotary Rocket car is 2.2 status and the College is happy to help any
metres long, 600cm wide and built from poplar college or school with the scheme.
Don Carter, Youth chair at Bideford Bridge, said:
“This is a very exciting project that shows how
Rotary can work with a local college and prove
that the sciences can be fun. I hope that more
Rotary Clubs will join us and we will see the
project active in district 1175 and throughout the
UK.”
More information from Don Carter on
donstimeagain1@talktalk.net.
Greenpower’s website is www.greenpower.co.uk.
