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F1 IN SCHOOLS STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
In October, BMGS had three teams participating Awards were held, with Xpeditious announced
in the F1 in Schools State Championships, which in First Place in the Development Class and Jett
was held at Sydney Motorsport Park in Eastern Speed awarded First Place for Senior Cadet Class.
Creek.
The students returned from the experience
F1 in Schools is the world’s largest STEM/ declaring it “a fun, exciting and rewarding event”,
Engineering competition where teams compete where all their engineering and design skills
against each other to design and manufacture were challenged. They enjoying the opportunity
the most aerodynamic car and effective trade to “stretch” themselves and “use this amazing
display to show their best work over the past nine opportunity” they were given”.
months.
The School community is looking forward to the
Qualifying for this event were our Development National Championships, to be held in March,
Teams Aquila (Year 9 students Jack Corkins, 2024, in Adelaide.
Meenatchi Selvarasa, Babette Morel-Lewis and
Indigo Herron) and Xpeditious (Year 9 students
Finley Snedden, Lachlan Burgess, Coco Carter
and Ryan Ivery) together with team Jett Speed Pictured below, back
(Daniel Ball (Year 11) and Jett Lawson (Year 10) row: Cody Wright, Jett
participating in the Cadet Senior Class category. Lawson, Daniel Ball,
Coco Carter, Lachlan
Our students competed against teams from Burgess and Finley
schools all across NSW, with Xpeditious in First Snedden. Front row:
place among Development Class teams, moving Meenatchi Selvarasa,
Indigo Herron, Babette
onto the F1 in Schools National Championships Morel-Lewis and Jack
to be held early next year. Jett Speed also placed Corkins.
First among Senior Cadet teams, however, the
journey for Jett Speed ends at the State level as
there is no National competition for this class.
The competition involves racing all the cars,
judging the trade displays and the presentation
of the awards. When it came to the car races,
unfortunately, none of our cars clocked the fastest
time of all the cars, even though Xpeditious was
very close to the winning time.

When it came around to judging the trade displays
and portfolios, we learned that Nicholas Hayes,
a BMGS Alumni (2021)and F1 in Schools World
Finalist (2019) was judging the trade displays.
After the competition, the team discovered that,
even though they didn’t have the best trade
display, Xpeditious was again close to the top
team. After the entire competition concluded, the