Last year I took my kids to The London Science Museum, and Nate was keen to see a display by a secondary school racing team. \u00c2\u00a0They were showing off their electric car, and I introduced myself to a member of Green Power, the company responsible for the cars and events. \u00c2\u00a0I asked if they made a primary school car, and they introduced me to The Goblin car!<\/p>\n
The Goblin comes in kit form, and year six students learn how to build, race and maintain it as a team. \u00c2\u00a0During each year there are races against other schools with the exact same kit, including a national meet at Goodwood race circuit.<\/p>\n
Through a very kind anonymous donation from a parent, and generous backing from the PTA , we bought our kit. \u00c2\u00a0We held a competition to name the team, and Grace Southgate won with her “Minchinhampton Moochanics” entry. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Plans are being made to completely charge the car using solar panels, to help further strengthen our green credentials. \u00c2\u00a0We are all excited about our first season as a team, and look forward to sharing our adventure with you on this blog!<\/span><\/p>\n Mr.Bradshaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last year I took my kids to The London Science Museum, and Nate was keen to see a display by a secondary school racing team. \u00c2\u00a0They were showing off their electric car, and I introduced myself to a member of Green Power, the company responsible for the cars and events. \u00c2\u00a0I asked if they made … Continue reading A little bit of background information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/ecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/ecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/ecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/ecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/ecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/ecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/ecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/ecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/ecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}