To whom it may concern,
My name is Lucas Starck and I am a student in year 12 (16-17 years old) at the British School in the Netherlands (BSN) in Voorschoten. I take part in the STEM club at my school (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) and will start a project to complete my silver CREST award. This will take 50-60 hours and the aim is to investigate some a concept or idea using scientific experimentation.
I am very interested in engineering - mechanical, aeronautical and aerospace mainly - so I would like to do my project based on one of those concepts, and ideally one that is applicable to life. Here are some project ideas that have intrigued me and that I would like to do:
Gyroscope
Magnetic braking
Gravity car
Stability of a bicycle > inertia
Coupled pendula
Sliding friction
Optimising a solar water heater
Forces on a rolling magnet
Building a pressure / depth sensor
Turbine efficiency - fluid coupling
Factors affecting restitution of bouncing balls
Meteorites > variables affecting size of crater and perhaps shape of crater
Effects of wing lift
I have contacted you, hoping that I would be able to receive some professional feedback on perhaps which of these projects are the most feasible and how I could go about investigating those areas. Any information would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Lucas Starck