STEM Crew HQ Visits for Schools

Inspire your students with a free school trip to the 1851 Trust education space at INEOS TEAM UK

STEM Crew HQ is located at INEOS TEAM UK’s ‘state-of-the-art’ base in Portsmouth. Visits offer dynamic educational resource for students and educators to support and promote the STEM agenda in schools.

Located at the team base in Portsmouth, a school trip is a great opportunity to visit the impressive nerve-centre of a professional sports team as they prepare for one of sport’s greatest challenges.

Visits last 2.5 hours and include a hands-on STEM workshop of your choice. Our STEM workshops are linked to the curriculum and are suitable for ages 11-14. Workshops are delivered by our in-house education team. Choose from the following nine workshops:

Marvellous Mechanisms

• Understand the principles of pressure and learn how the America’s Cup boats use power from hydraulic systems. Your groups will then build and test their own hydraulic system (KS4 only, max group size 15 students).

Wings, Sails and Wind Tunnel

• Understand the theory behind ‘lift’ and learn how sails work. Design your own sail to test in the wind tunnel.

Cutting-Edge Materials

• Investigate the properties of various materials to see what makes them suitable for different parts of the boat. Build your own model boat to test strength vs weight.

Invasive Species

• Learn about the adaptation of species and the impact on the environment. Make a Lionfish as a take-home message abut his particular invasive species in Bermuda.

Carbon Cycle

• A practical chemistry workshop to demonstrate how understanding the carbon cycle is essential to an America’s Cup team.

Ocean Health

• This workshop investigates how plastic litter impacts marine ecology.

Hull Shapes, floating and sinking

• Why do boats float? Why are there so many different shapes? Learn how hull shapes have changed over time and what makes a boat stable. Design and test your own hull shape- will it stay afloat?

Testing Materials

• Explore modern materials and their uses, investigating why different materials are used for different purposes. In this practical workshop, students will learn how engineers stress test parts of the race boat to ensure it is structurally sound

Renewable Energy – Wind Power

• Sustainability is key to the future of Planet Earth. Make and test a wind turbine and discover how energy is transformed and utilised onboard the INEOS TEAM UK race boat.

Key Visit Information

Please read the following documents before you book:

• Joining Instructions
• Risk Assessment