The students provide information to visitors and dignitaries about their learning, the problems that they overcame, and their recommendations for improving their work in the future.

NAMIG’s program, the Genesis Unmanned Aero Vehicle (UAV) Challenge, sponsored by the RAAF Base and BAE Systems was won by Riverton and District High School’s Stage 1 Physics class.

The Challenge requires students to deliver a payload to a target zone with a remote controlled plane whilst avoiding obstacles at the same time.

During the operation the operator does not see the plane and relies only on the onboard systems to know when over the target to make the drop.

Justin Smith who made the successful drop said: “Dropping the payload was difficult, as the team had no time to test the system due to bad weather.”

The Year 11 students were delighted with their success.

Hannah Clark said: “It was a great excitement and reward for the hard work put in”.

Riverton and District High School also won the Holden’s Vehicle Tracking Systems Project Presentation Award.

The Year 10 students agreed, “It was a challenge to meet Holden’s requirements and design a solution to win this award.”

Richard Bastian, Riverton and District High Schools C2C coordinator said: “The C2C programme takes a systems engineering approach to learning that models the way that engineers work in teams in the workplace.

“Students identify a problem, research the contexts for that problem, come up with a range of solutions, use a quality systems approach to refining a solution and then develop a product.

“Riverton and District High School students used this approach to develop their products in the C2C program.”