Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Hot Air Balloon Competition

This year's hot air balloon contest took place in the North gym, at lunch, on Thursday Jan.7th.  Crowds of students and teachers showed up to watch the balloons of the Grade 11 Engineering Design course rise to victory. The teams had to design, build and skillfully launch their balloons so that they stayed up as long as possible after 90 seconds of heating with a hot air gun. All in all, 15 teams competed with two teams making it passed the 60 second mark both tying for first place. They were:

 Team A:  Abida Rahman, Emily Coughlan and Atiqul Islam.- 75 seconds

 Team B:  Tylor Zadnik, Ethan Fung, Martin Schmidt and Menna Abdella. - 72 seconds (see their photos below)


Congratulations to Ms. Tevlin and all the students that participated for their excellent efforts!  











Abida Rahman, Emily Coughlan and Atiqul Islam



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