Reasons for participation...

Our Mission:

Able to change the world with our designs and contribute to mankind.

Objectives:

-To design, construct, manufacture and race the fastest Formula One Car of the future, driven by compact compressed reclaimed CO2 (carbon dioxide gas) power plants.

-To emerge as a champion regionally and represent southern region to the national level!

- To obtain knowledge in the fields of Science and Technology and gain experience.

World Championship 2008

F1 For Schools World Championship 2008

Venue: Sunway Resort

Before making our first mark, the team decided to check out what we are facing...

The Championship.

The track - 20 metres from start to finish.

And the cars...

What is F1 for schools - The Competition

What is F1 in Schools?


It's a competition for teams of three to six school children to design and manufacture miniature CO2-powered racing cars and then race them at regional, national, and international levels. Organized by The Formula One In School Incorporated and supported by Ministry of Education, it’s open to all Form 4 secondary school students within the season. Participating students use state-of-the-art software programs that enable them to play around with CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), just like real F1 designers.
They have to manage the whole project from scratch, from drawing up a business plan and raising the sponsorship, to financing it through the design and manufacturing stages, to a presentation in front of a panel of preeminent judges.
Student teams will compete against each other at the next national finals to determine who will represent Malaysia to the 2009 World Championships!

Why F1 Schools Technology Challenge Introduced ?


The F1 in Schools Technology Challenge exists to raise the profile of engineering across schools and colleges around the world. CAD / CAM, CNC and VR system are now common place in the manufacturing industry, which is why it is so important for the engineers and designers of the future to get to grips with it earlier on.
The F1 in Schools initiative creates a fun and motivating environment for students to experience the engineering process. The worldwide popularity of F1 racing lends excitement while providing a relevant background for simulating critical elements of engineering in the real world.
Primarily, F1 in Schools provides students with an ideal opportunity to experience the very latest developments in manufacturing technology
Experiencing Engineering
Students form their own F1 teams to research, design, manufacture, and ultimately race their own scale model F1 cars. The process simulates many facets of real F1 racing.
From a design and manufacturing perspective, students use CAD (computer-aided design) software to create virtual 3-D models of their cars and translate their designs into reality by means of CNC milling machines.
Team organization is critical to the project. Teams must have a minimum of three to a maximum of six members who fill the following roles: team manager, resources manager, manufacturing engineer, design engineer, and graphic designer.
Teams must also promote their cars through a variety of marketing efforts, such as procuring sponsors (if possible); developing sponsorship decals and a consistent color scheme; and producing a design folder with initial design ideas, design development information, testing evidence, and graphical renderings
Lastly, the object of the exercise is to make these miniature projectiles travel a 20-meter distance in the shortest time possible.
The current record is 1.02 seconds, an average speed of 19.6 m/s. To put that in perspective, that’s faster than Fernando Alonso’s Renault could manage over the same distance, not withstanding its 900bhp cargo in the back!

Mission

The F1 in Schools initiative was set up in 2000 as a way of raising the profile of engineering as a career option and assisting the teaching of the subject in schools and colleges.
Since that time, some two million children have taken part, and it has expanded into an international competition. Twenty-two countries have signed up to this year’s contest, and the winners of each national competition will face each other in the world final.
It is hope that through direct experience of the technology and processes required to complete this project, students will be encouraged to explore and/or pursue a career in the car design, engineering and manufacturing industries.

The design and rules present a different engineering and design challenge to test and develop engineering skills even further, besides cultivating interpersonal skills as team work is an important element of the Challenge.

About us...

It began with one passion... The passion for SPEED!

They are four different students with different backgrounds and personalities and have completely nothing in common but their passion for speed meet up. Thus, the ‘Nitrates’ was formed. The team has gone through thick and thin, many problems arise during the process of victory but they managed to pull through together and stand strong till the end. Now, after qualifying for the southern region championship, the road to the nationals, the team once again are working day and night in order to produce the ‘the winning formula one car’- our pride and joy, “Godspeed”. However there still lies an obstacle for them to overcome. The process of manufacturing the car and turning their little pieces of inspirations and bright ideas into a reality, the recipe for success. And of course lacking of fund is the major problem for us to proceed smoothly.

The Nitrates are:
>Teh Kell Jim (Jim)- Team Leader / Resource Manager
>Joel Yip - Design Engineer
>Yeow Kin Yoong - Manufacturing Engineer
>Lee Kin Mun - Graphic Designer

One Team, One Family.

'From FRIENDSHIP... to PARTNERSHIP'
Life Truly is a Speedway.