There will be three competitions for this year’s AEROFAIR event: Indoor Flight, Airframe Modelling, and Rocket Launching. The competition event day will be held from 8.30 am to 1.30 pm on Saturday, 27/9/2014 at the Pusat Pembangunan Mahasiswa (PUMA) building. Special prizes and certificates will be awarded to winners in each category.
All secondary schools in Pulau Pinang are invited to send teams of 4 students to enter any of these competitions. All students from Form 1 to Form 5 can participate in these competitions and each team can be made up of students from any Forms. Each school can send as many as 2 teams to apply to enter each competition. However, the entry per school may be reduced if the total number of applications exceed the maximum of 300 participants at AEROFAIR 2014.
Further details are given below for each competition:
- Indoor Flight: A competition to build small light-weight airplanes made from balsa-wood and plastic wrappers and fly to achieve the longest flight time. For the Indoor Flight competition, we will organize a half-day workshop on Saturday, 23 August 2014, a month before the competition day.
- Airframe Modeling: A competition to build skeletal models of airplane structures using cheap and/or reusable materials. (AEROFAIR 2012 winner: SMK Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah, Sungai Bakap, Pulau Pinang with their beautiful replica of the Wright Brothers’ famous airplane).
- Water Rocket Challenge: A competition to build water rockets launched with blasts from air pressure that parachute back to the ground to achieve the longest flight time.
The picture below is the winner of our AEROFAIR 2012 in the Airframe Modeling category: SMK Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah, Sungai Bakap, Pulau Pinang with their beautiful replica of the Wright Brothers’ famous airplane.
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