On Thursday 30th March 2000, the Essex Younger Members Section organised a technology evening for the 6th Chelmsford Scouts. This was in an attempt to spread the word about the opportunities of work in science and engineering and to gain ourseleves a few challenge points!

The evening started with a short talk from Steve Wade, who then introduced  a short video. The Scouts were then split into teams and given their first challenge, building a tower from straws, cocktail sticks and fruit pastels. This challenge was taken from the Honourary officers conference. Amazingly it took a while for most people to realise that the fruit pastels could be used as glue if they were made moist!

the results varied enourmously, but there was definately some potentail civil engineers amongst the participants

The second challenge was to build a bridge to support an egg bearing load from spaghetti and plastercine. This proved to be a rather delicate task, but there were seome excellent results. One team became slightly upset when they were told that they had to move their bridge to the test area, bu then customer requirements are always dynamic!

Overall the evening proved very successful and all the Scouts enjoyed themselves.