Specialist School Mathematics and Physics

The Sentinus Team R&D Scheme

The Sentinus Team R&D Scheme involves a team of Year 13 pupils in an engineering research and development project, set by a local organisation. The scheme runs for several months and includes visits to engineering companies, residential workshops, and practical work to solve a real engineering problem.

With assistance from a company engineer the students develop a solution to a real life problem through on-site visits, work in school and a residential workshop at one of the local universities. The year’s work culminates with an Assessment and Presentation Day, when teams exhibit their projects and present their work to panels of experts

The Engineering Education Scheme is one of the programmes organised by Sentinus

Click here for details of the Engineering Project 2011

Engineering Team 2012

Recent projects have included:

• Laptop Tracking System  (with the Epicentre, University of Ulster);

• Automatic Retrieval of Patient Records From a Hospital Database  (with the Epicentre, University of Ulster);

• Automatic Detection of Car Park Spaces - a way of detecting the location of a free car-parking space in a large car park (with the Epicentre, University of Ulster);

• Rainwater Harvesting - collecting rainwater for use in the school (with WELB);

• Wind Energy Feasibility Study - investigation of the benefits of installing wind turbines at Thornhill College (with WELB);

• Robot Power Grid - the design of a wireless power supply to allow a robot to move around freely (with School of Mathematics and Computing, University of Ulster.