Team Aeolus in the driving seat for success at World Finals The F1 in Schools STEM challenge is the world’s largest high school engineering competition, with 17,000 schools in over 51 countries involved. Participants form teams of up to six people to compete in their region Schools World Finals will take place between 9–15 July 2022 at the to produce the fastest miniature Formula 1 car. According to the F1 in International Conference and Exhibition Centre at Silverstone Circuit Schools website, the teams ‘deploy CAD/CAM software to collaborate, in the United Kingdom. design, analyse, manufacture, test, and then race miniature compressed air-powered cars made from F1 model block’. Originally, the boys from Blue Mountains Grammar competed in the Nationals as PerPetrol. The teams were brought together to form a We had two teams participate in the 2021 F1 in Schools Australian strong Australian collaboration for the World Finals. National Final (development class and professional class). Both teams spent many long hours developing their skills in design, The boys are enjoying the competitiveness and collegiality of the marketing, engineering, etc. They had to gain sponsorship from as global challenge. many companies as possible to raise money to buy T-shirts and ‘I really loved being able to learn life skills while being surrounded by create their display booth. mates. I’ve met some incredible people and gained some memories Team Aeolus (development class) won second place at the Nationals I could never forget,’ said Julian. (that’s second in the whole country) and will represent Australia in Our other team, Instinct (professional class), narrowly missed out on the 2022 Aramco F1 in Schools World Finals at the International being involved in the World Finals but did exceptionally well to make Conference and Exhibition Centre at Silverstone Circuit in the United the Nationals. Those boys also need to be congratulated for their Kingdom as Team Aqueous. tireless efforts. They are Tristan Henry, Alexander Ross, Sebastian Aqueous is a team of nine high school students. This includes the Baudille and Dexter Young. Newington boys from Aeolus, Year 10 students Lukas Yee, Preston Zhang, Harry Board, Julian Bray and Max Amoyal, and four students Ms Colleen Scalone from Blue Mountains Grammar School. The 2022 Aramco F1 in F1 in Schools Coordinator Our 2021 F1 in Schools National Finals team, Aeolus Racing, who will compete in the 2022 World Final as Aqueous – Julian Bray, Preston Zhang, Lukas Yee, Harry Board and Max Amoyal, with Headmaster Michael Parker.