Bloodhound continues to encourage children into engineering

The UK based project to break the world land speed record has been set up to encourage schools to get involved and promote engineering skills for children. The Bloodhound Education Team (BET) has now had to be restructured to meet the huge demand in interest, and has been praised by the National Foundation for Education Research following an independent audit. Noble said in his monthly blog: "Dave (Rowley, education programme director) and the BET team have made over 90 presentations and attendances in shows and there has been a huge level of seven days a week commitment. It's quite clear that Bloodhound is starting to have a serious influence in education and there is a chance that we really will have an effect on British engineering." Noble added that Swansea and UWE Universities are seeing substantial increases in take up of graduate engineering courses, with UWE 37% up. He added: "How much of this is due to Bloodhound? Well, I guess we'll never know, but both universities acknowledge there is a Bloodhound effect." Picture courtesy of curventa