Unfortunately this competition is over but read on to know details & find out the answers tothe questions.
Would you and your class like to spend a day at the most kitted up place school students can use in the UK?
Would you like to see your designs brought to life, in 3D, by a machine, before your very eyes?
To celebrate Enterprise Week, NESTA Future Innovators Team is offering you and your class the prize of a day at a place that will amaze and inspire you. All your costs will be paid for, including cover at your school while you’re away.
All you have to do is get these questions about Bolton Technical Innovation Centre all correct and you’ll go into the draw.
You have to be able to bring your class to the TIC before the end of the summer term, 2007. This quiz is open to all primary and secondary teachers and students anywhere in the UK.
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What does the ‘TIC’ of Bolton TIC stand for?
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Here’s a sequence of: scanning the real thing, adjusting on a computer, sending to be printed in 3D (you’re only seeing one thin layer on the surface of the printing, in the middle of the shape, the bit the machine’s done already is all under the surface there) and the finished product with the real thing. Now, what is the fossil called?
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This is (from left to right) Liz and Lucy from NESTA Future Innovators Team, holding two of the above fossil replicas. What’s it called when you make something small the same, only bigger?
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This is Iain Cant, resident sculptor at Bolton TIC, and he’s holding a model of the 4m high sculpture he’s helping to make for the Eden Project. It’s made using the kit at the TIC. The mathematics of nature behind the shape is called the Fibonacci series, what does it remind you of?
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Watch this movie or look at the picture above. You’re looking at a laser doing its thing, giving a wine glass the Bolton TIC Logo. What’s it called when you use a laser, or a chemical, or sand or a scraping tool to make an image or to write on a surface?
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This is Lucy again, and she’s modeling the very latest in mug-wear. No-one will dare borrow it for coffee in the office now. The image was taken digitally, printed out to fit the mug and transferred by heat onto the mug by melting the special ink. Was the transfer printed:
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This is a sample of how you might use colour when you are creating a 3D prototype, other than just giving an idea of what colour something will be of course. What do you think this prototype machine part is showing us with its colour?
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This is a transport invention from the 80’s called a Sinclair C5, which never really took off. However a well known science TV show thought they’d get Bolton TIC resident rocket scientist Robin Hague to test what really would make it take off. What’s the surprising household material that they got it to run on?
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Our young designer is using the tool she’s holding to ‘feel’ the shape on the screen, so she can model it. The tool has wires inside that tense and un-tense so that you can feel the surface of the shape through the tool, and use different modes to mould what you’re feeling. You can give it spikes, or dimples or anything. This is called Haptic technology. Haptic means...
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As well as having a resident rocket scientist, sculptor and product designer, Bolton TIC has attracted the Bolton Model Aircraft Society to use it as their home. This is them currently making a prototype UAV or ‘spy plane’ to rival expensively researched alternatives. What does UAV stand for?
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