On Thursday, 23 May, 22 students from Years 10 and 11 ventured to Kensington for UNSW’s Secondary Engineering Day. Upon arrival, our students were split into nine tute groups which undertook workshops catering to their interests across the broad spectrum of Engineering disciplines.
In the first session, Ramzel Liwanag worked with Sceggs North Shore students to solder an electronic dice, while Brodie Bechara and Diab Sukkar experimented with fatty emulsions and proteins to manipulate surface tension. In other workshops, Louis Zakhour and Marcus Cooper won a water filtration competition, while Marcus Dias and Shivam Malhotra coded a robot to emulate parts of an emergency rover mission.
In later sessions, Michael Evans, Dennis Pulikal, Jr Nacua designed and built a balsa bridge, while Nathan Khoury, Joshua Ramachandran, Gabriel Palenzuela-Lim, Kevin Kandiah and Joshua Perera won a catapult competition. On the bus home, some of the boys were heard singing their own version of DJ Khaled’s, “All We Do is Win”. That said, the day was less about winning, and more about learning by being involved.
As is often the case, the university staff and student volunteers commented upon the excellent contributions made by PMHS students when collaboratively problem solving. Our boys asked many questions of the UNSW student engineers, and learned more about the Engineering pathways they’re considering.
Students involved:
Jr Nacua, Michael Evans, Diab Sukkar, Jordan Brownlow, Ramzel Liwanag, Shivam Malhotra, Nathan Khoury, Joshua Perera, Christian Peregrina, Dennis Pulikal, Raymond Elweddy, Marcus Papelera, Joshua Ramachandran, Louis Zakhour, Gabriel Palenzuela-Lim, Brodie Bechara, Marcus Dias, Thomas Aquillina, Anthony Abouhamad, Kevin Kandiah, Charbel Haucaub.
We hope the experience helps fuel the fires for these young engineers.
