1. Race for the Line Race Briefing Session – Season 3 15 May, 2017
This is the Presentation that will be given to Rocket Car Competitors, when they are assembled at the Hub school in order to collect their Rocket Car Kits
15 May, 2017

2. Presentation summary Rocket Car Competition Rules
Rocket Car Kit – Components
Rocket Car – Design Constraints – Build Your Own Car
Rocket Car – Hub School Timings – Going Forward
Pre Race day – Checklist , Spreadsheet, Tera Term, Video resource
Rocket Car – Hub Race Day – Format
Health and Safety – Review
Summary of the Presentation and how the slides are organised

3. Registration – 1/5/2017 - 30th July 2017
Competition Rules – Years 7 students England / Wales
Registration – 1/5/ th July 2017
Season 3 Race Calendar
Autumn Term Learn, Design and Build Phase with curriculum materials aligned to the year 7 STEM+ curriculum
Spring Term Schools Race Days held at participating schools in England and Wales (Spring Race Dates booked with Regional HUB admin team during September and October 2017 enabling schools to plan the race day as a wider STEM event for the school)
Summer Term Regional Finals run at the start of the summer term 2018 (dates and locations announced by your regional Race HUB in September 2017)
National Finals - end of June 2018
Prizes
All finalists will have their school names added to the tail fin of Bloodhound SSC.
1st prize – £1000 (inc VAT) for the school
2nd Prize - £ for the school
3rd Prize - £ for the school
The competition rules
Entry cars must use the foam block and safety eyelets and screw eye materials in the Micro:bit model rocket car Kit supplied by The Learning Partnership however teams can design any wheel and axel system they like.
Entry Cars must run with a Micro:bit accelerometer on board and data logged using the Bitty Data Logger App.
Data gathered by the Micro:bit timing gates must be entered into the App and then published fomr the App to the Dendrite leader board. 
The goal is simple – the fastest car through the timing gate, set so cars enter it at the 15 metre mark, with a functioning Micro:bit on board able to gather acceleration data and upload it into the leader board wins and progresses to the next round!
These are the rules taken from for the England and Wales competition

4. Competition Learning Materials
A week by week guide can be located within ‘4. Design & Build Your Rocket Cars’
You can find a large range of teaching resources behind tile 7.

5. Rocket Car Kit Blue Foam Block 2 Wall Anchors 2 Eyelets
1 rocket motor (delivered on race day)
Explain the different components of the Rocket Car kit.
Foam Block – Go through the orientation of the block and how to translate the markings on the following slides. Make sure the competitors understand the minimum allowed dimensions.
Two Axles – Explain the two axle holes, and also explain that if the car width has been reduced, within the minimum guidelines, and after the wheels have been put on the axles, the axle length can be trimmed if necessary. So that the axle finishes flush with the outer edge of the wheel
Wheels – These are best fitted with a small hammer, knocking down onto a hard surface. The Wheel orientation is with the raised flange face next to the Foam body of the car
Wall Anchors – These screw into the underside of the car at the position shown as BackEye and FrontEye on the drawing. Their function is to provide a secure anchor for the eyelets.
Eyelets – These screw into the wall anchors and then become the tether line guides. Note Is is best to assemble the Eyelets into the Wall Anchors and then fit the combined item into the Foam Block

6. Design Constraints - 1
This is the Drawing of the Foam Block. Identifying the Design Limitations

7. Race for the Line Timings
A Race Day will be convened at participating Schools – Date to be agreed by the 30th September between the Regional HUB and the school administrator
This Race Day will be organised to occur between the 1st January 2018 & 30th March 2018 at your school
On Race day you should have :-
Constructed Cars minus Rocket Motors (Hubs will keep motors for use on the day)
Laptop with Spreadsheet configured ready to load data (as back up in the event of Blue Tooth failure)
Smart phone or Tablet with Bitty Data Logger App for Data transfer live to leader board
Video Camera and personnel to record video evidence
The Hub School may well want to populate this slide further. The dates / times given are the high level competition time restrictions

8. Team Data – Spread-sheet Example
Things to be able to do:
Secret Token Number
School Name
Team Names
Mico:Bit Upload capability
Additional information / summary of the additional items that need to be completed
Schools must come to race day with a spreadsheet prepared to receive the data form their race cars.
They can use their own micro:bits in preparation for the race day, by downloading the firmware and accelerometer hex file to their own school micro:bits, however the race HUB will supply all accelerometers on the race day itself.

9. Health and Safety
Please be well aware that there are very strict Health and Safety Guidelines in place with respect to running a Rocket Car Race Day and taking part in this competition.
Fundamentally these guidelines stipulate-
ONLY licensed Rocketeers should run race activity
Only unmodified Hub Launch Kits should be used to launch race cars
Only cars constructed with Race for the Line Rocket Car Kit materials should be used
Only Cars built to the specific competition build guidelines should be raced.
Any deviation from any one of the above requirements will constitute a breach of Health and Safety codes and the competitor will NOT be covered under the Health and Safety / Insurance arrangements in place for this competition.
This is a Health and Safety statement page, its very important that this is stressed, also point to areas on the platform where additional Health and safety information can be found.
Further Details Can be obtained from see below

10. Go and Build your Own Rocket Cars
So go and build your own cars, remember!! Have Fun,
Social Media links – Twitter
@bloodhound_ssc
@dendrite_me

11. Questions | Thank You | See You Soon
Please Remember
Use the Extensive Reference Material available on line at in the Bloodhound Channel.
Utilise “Ask the Experts” button for any queries
Invite all your fellow STEM teachers and students into your Private School Community. We want this platform to be the most vibrant STEM collaboration space on the planet – but it requires you to use it!
Lots more STEM channels like Bloodhound launching in the months to come!
Any questions, remember to point them to their Hub community on the platform and use the reference resource and also any questions use the “Ask the Experts Button”