We're In The Paper: Shell Make The Future

Pupils from Broadford Primary were delighted to meet Rachel Riley (of Countdown & Strictly Come Dancing fame) when they attended the Shell 'Make the Future Live' event. This free festival of ideas and innovation was based at the Queen Elizabeth Park until Sunday 28 May, 2017.

Our pupils were able to experience bright ideas from other school children, older students, entrepreneurs and industries on what a lower-carbon energy future might look like. It really inspired them to see science being bought to life!

Amelia Chau - Year 6 Lead Teacher

Rachel Riley was there to launch the event at the heart of the festival - the Shell Eco-marathon Europe. This challenged students to design and build ultra energy efficient cars, and see which could travel the furthest on the least amount of energy. The current record stands at 3,771km – that’s from London to Helsinki and back again on just one litre of fuel!

Broadford's Charlie Cooper got to take part in a race with Jason Bradbury (presenter of The Gadget Show) using salt water powered cars.

I am worried that we are using more energy than ever before. This means the world has to reduce CO2 emissions or it will damage the climate forever. These salt water cars could be the future!

Charlie Cooper - aged 10