The future is bright. The future is Fourth Class. Engineers of the future.

Fourth Class attend IT Tralee for Engineer Week. Many thanks to all the parents who dropped and collected.We were treated to a fascinating insight into Bloodhound the supersonic car that hopes to break a world record by travelling at 1050 miles per hour. Special thanks to engineer David Price for our workshop.

Ryan bravely assists Dave demonstrating air resistance .

After a great demonstration by Ryan we found out that a crumpled piece of paper has much less air resistance .

Dave explains what the crack of the whip really means .

The crack a whip makes is produced when a section of the whip moves faster than the speed of sound creating a small sonic boom.

Dave demonstrates Newtons third law showing us for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.

The balloon goes up to much delight, but where shall it land ??