On 13 July, 24 students from Carisbrooke College and 24 students from Medina College were fortunate enough to attend the 30th Goodwood Festival of Speed. We were very kindly gifted the entrance tickets by the festival. This STEM orientated trip was fun, informative and inspirational. All of the students had a great time seeing how technology and engineering has evolved and loved exploring the interactive exhibits. They saw cars that were 100 years old right up to modern F1 cars!

Here is a report from student, Maggie B:
I really enjoyed going to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. We started off by seeing the Future Lab, which is the FOSTech area whhich incorporates the STEM activities. This area covered technological advances that have been made or that could be implemented in different areas; There were robots for the NHS that could navigate around without collision , we got to interact with facial tracking softwares and futuristic technology that could make testing for illnesses in the NHS quicker and cheaper. Then we moved on to see both old and new cars for both racing and exploration and there were many interactive games, we also saw motorbikes and off road cars racing around the track to qualify for the hill climb. At 11.30 there was a Red Arrows display.