For a bit of company fun and friendly competition, Fluor Engineers Challenge each other every year in a global, company-wide engineering competition. In 2015, Fluor decided to bring the spirit of their yearly employee competition to students. The Fluor Engineering Challenge is designed and created by real-life engineers to help students experience how engineers design solutions and to show students first-hand how fun engineering can be.
Students in Year 7 STEM are currently participating in the Fluor Follow the Flow Challenge. In groups, by engaging in the Engineering Design Process, students design, build and test their model of a terraced irrigation system that uses flowing water to transport plastic beads.
This project is inspired by the Banaue Rice Terraces, 2,000-year-old structures carved into mountainsides in the Philippines.
As it is a challenge, groups in each core class are competing against each other to be crowned the 2021 challenge winners!
Julia Groutsch
Learning Leader
