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13-07-2010
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RC project for innercity kids - the kids are BUZZING!
Cheers to everyone that's helped out so far with the South Camden Community School Radio Racecars project. All of your donations and help have made a huge difference so far!
The initial one-week project starts up next week, and the kids are BUZZING!!! There's a great sense of excitement around the school about the big pile of RC cars and paraphanelia building up in Mr Miller's lab. Boys and girls that I'd never expect to be interested are banging on the door to beg to be in on the project... After school today, even the Deputy Head Teacher couldn't resist coming outside and driving one of the cars around the quad a bit when we were doing some preliminary testing of the track layout!!! I've every intention of extending the project into an ongoing club for the kids through the next school year - so all of your kindly donated kit and bits is certain to be a part of the project. Thank you ALL very much! Plenty of photos to follow! Further, it's still not too late to get some stuff down to the school if you're keen - even the most basic stuff like tools or cool stickers or painting masks would help out, but the most useful would be old cars of any description of course. The school address is: South Camden Community School Charrington Street London NW1 1RG Thanks! Ty 
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24-07-2010
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The project has been an awesome success! Thanks again to eveyrone who's helped out!
21 students aged 12 to 15 were involved, and in the end they built up 7 running cars from the bits that you've all donated. They got the cars going, painted up some amazing shells (thanks Andy and Horizon!), tested them, and did some serious racing in the playground... AWESOME! We also managed a great field trip on Wednesday to Brooklands Museum, the birthplace of UK motorsport and aviation, where the kids had a chance to compare their cars to real race cars, go on board a Concorde, and race each other on the museum's F1 simulator. As an extra bonus, Steve and Chris Brooke came along and introduced the kids to a range of different types of off road RC cars and showed them some pretty impressive stunt driving. The focus of the week was creativity, and it's amazing what solutions some of the kids came up with to problems that they encountered... Check out the Falcon/TL01 hybrid!!!! The pride on the kids' faces shows it all! The best news is that the interest is HUGE for me to lead a weekly RC club next year - so who knows.. you might be seeing team SCCS at the local track soon! There will be plenty of scope for you all to help out if you're keen too - from visits to sharing bits of old kit - it's all great! Nevertheless here's some photos... (nb. I checked with the guidelines, and it's okay to show images on this news website with the kids as long as they're not identified by name)                    
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24-07-2010
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Ty, looks like a great success!!!!!!!!! Well done to you for all your hard work, and a big thanks to all that donated stuff!!!
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