KEYSBOROUGH Secondary College students have claimed a sustainability award – at the Amazing Spaghetti Machine Contest.
The Melbourne University School of Engineering competition saw Year 10 teams from 16 schools across the state battle it out on 27 and 28 August.
The challenge was to create the word ‘engineer’ using the most complex machine. Spaghetti machine is the Italian term for an overly complex machine or device used for a relatively simple task.
Teams could use up to 12 steps and two minutes to display ‘engineer’ in a digital or hard copy form using their machine.
Keysborough’s team – dubbed Young Einsteins – put their skills and knowledge in mathematics, science, engineering and project management to the test.
The school’s science learning area leader Leonie McGlashan said they made their machine from two greenhouses and equipment and materials found around the science laboratory.
“It is sustainable because all the parts can be dismantled and reused,” she said.
This won them The Green Machine Award, for sustainability.
The contest started in 2001 and is now an annual event.
