Promethean & Bloodhound promote technology in schools

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My other car’s a Mini! Promethean and Bloodhound have teamed up to promote technology in schools

Sometimes, being fastest in the world still isn’t fast enough. The Bloodhound supersonic car has held the world land speed record for a rocket-powered vehicle for the past 26 years, but now its team is gearing up to become the first to drive at 1,000 mph, hopefully in 2012.

In the meantime, the Bloodhound SSC team has signed Promethean, a maker of interactive learning technology, to support its international education programme in the hope of engaging young people in the science that underpins this challenge.

A feature of the project is that it will provide open access to its science and engineering research data and design iterations involved in the development of the Bloodhound SSC. Ultimately this will be the catalyst for a raft of research in fields such as aerodynamics, materials technology, composite manufacturing and sustainable high-tech engineering.

Promethean’s chief education officer, Jim Wynn, notes: “The goal of putting a man on the moon in the 1960s inspired a generation to take an interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). We hope Bloodhound will have the same ‘Apollo effect’ for this generation.”

Teachers and students, or anyone with an interest, can follow the project and gain a wealth of relevant interactive STEM educational resources on Promethean’s Bloodhound site.

www.PrometheanPlanet.com/Bloodhound

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