Octane Racing to Represent Ireland in F1 in Schools™ Technology Challenge World Championships.
powered in Ireland by ICS
Dublin, 7th April 2011.
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Octane Racing from Dundalk Grammar School, have been declared the overall winners of the 2011 F1 in Schools Technology Challenge, powered in Ireland by the Irish Computer Society at the National Finals held in Griffith College Dublin today.
Team members Niall Donnolly, (Project Manager/Sponsorship and Marketing), Adam Matthews (Design Engineer), Kevin O’Malley (Manufacturing Engineer), Daniel Finnamore (Co-Design Engineer and Communications Manager), Daniel McCarthy-Edwards (Resource Manager) and Rollo Konig-Brock (Graphic and Web Designer) were coordinated by teacher Scott Nowell.
The team fought off fierce competition from 23 other finalist teams from all over Ireland to claim the National Title and trophy as well as the opportunity to represent Ireland in the 2011 World Championships in Malaysia in September. The overall winners receive €2,000 in prize money. |
Work for the 2011 Finals began last September with schools registering their interest in competing. Intense competition followed with 600 students representing 150 second-level schools from across the country battling their way through the various stages of the competition to reach the National Finals.
In addition to racing head to head, the competing teams were judged on the quality of engineering, portfolio, resource management, marketing, graphic design and sponsorship activities and on a verbal presentation of their work.
“Congratulations to all the teams who took part in this year’s competition. The standards were exceptionally high and it is always great to see how enthusiastic the students are about the competition” said ICS Skills CEO Jim Friars.
This is Dundalk Grammar School’s fourth year in the competition and second consecutive winning of the National Finals.
Octane Racing will now progress to the World Championships which will be held in Malaysia in September where they will compete against national winners from 31 countries from around the world.
Winning teams:
Senior Team – First place – Octane Racing (Dundalk Grammar School)
Senior Team – Second place – Quark (Presentation College, Carlow)
Senior Team – Third place – Diablo Racing (Dundalk Grammar School)
Junior Team – First place – Jet Stream (Presentation College, Carlow)
Junior Team – Second place – Team Galaxy (O'Fiaich Institute of Further Education)
Junior Team – Third place – Mach6 (Presentation College, Carlow)
As well as the overall winning teams on the day a number of other awards were handed out in a variety of categories:
- Fastest Car D-Type - The Roadrunners, St. Killian's VEC, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
- Fastest Car R-Type - Octane Racing, Dundalk Grammar School, Co. Louth
- Best Engineered - Jet Stream, Presentation College Carlow
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