A new series of videos is charting the success of a young team at this year’s White Horse Soapbox Derby.
The event, held on Saturday 17th May, featured 18 go-karts go head-to-head down a steep and winding course.
Students from Matravers School worked with Westbury Shed and local company WH Kemp to build their cart to enter. Ultimately, the team finished 5th in this year’s tightly-contested race.
Now, a new video series has launched that charts the Matravers team’s journey at the Soapbox Derby.
It follows their progress from the go-kart sketches to test runs and everything in between.
Ryan Child, events manager at Westbury Town Council, which organises the event, said, “Without a doubt, this was the most enjoyable part of the project for me, to see these young people learn the fundamentals of engineering and design, then go on to run the racing team was pretty amazing.
“They started off a bit shy but by the end of day 1 of the workshops they’d already come up with a racing team name, racing colours and how they want the car to look. Just incredible really.
“It gets to the bottom of what this whole project is about, which is a practical introduction to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) for young people.”
The first video in the series is entitled ‘Meet the Team’, followed by ‘Race Day Madness’, with the final part called ‘Mission Success’.
The videos can be viewed on the Soapbox Derby’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/whitehorsesoapbox
