Bloodhound SSC: Doncaster College

I am very proud to say that I am a Bloodhound Project ambassador, now ‘what is the project?’ I hear you say; well the Bloodhound Project is the engineering adventure for the 21st century. They are pushing the limits and inspiring young engineers and scientists by building incredible car, driven by Andy Green, capable of 1,000mph. That’s right the Bloodhound Project is about breaking the land speed record (sexy right?) and so it is a big honour to be one of their ambassadors.

Lead by Richard Noble the Project is all about celebrating British Engineering at its finest. The Project team consists of some of the world’s most revered engineering talent the individuals involved have been hand picked to ensure BLOODHOUND SSC is a global success, bringing together previous partnerships and fostering new talent in one of the most exciting engineering adventures that the world has seen for many years.

So where do I come in? Well Jonathon Ellis is the Ambassador Director and with Jo Finch was holding a two day education event at Doncaster College, and this is finally where I come in. The days are to encourage, inspire and inform and I go under the heading on inspire. We two days were full of talks, time to see how the car would look, look at the spec, have a go at driving it (in the driving simulator, I wish I could drive the real thing!). We even got a visit from the Mayor.

The BLOODHOUND SSC project is unique when compared to other ground breaking engineering ventures in that all the information about the research, design, build and testing of the car is available to teachers and students, and of course to anyone that wishes to visit the website

The website is full of information, ideas and videos please take a look http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/

Or drop them an email to request an education day for your school, college or group http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/education.cfm

So you’ve had the information and links, now for the pictures (and all my silly faces, the photographer told me after ‘your very ...er....expressive’)

Im not the only one who is 'expressive'

Jonathon explains the features of the car 'it goes very fast'

Jo talks about where Andy be sat


The Mayor tries the fantastic driving simulator

And Finally.... my expressive talk

.....Aspire.....

...er...surprise?....

... and explanation