CT school sets new record in water competition

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The team from Cape Town’s Brackenfell High School set a new record at the 2008 South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE)-DFC Water ‘Centenary Schools Water Competition’ held at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown, towards the end of last year. The competition, which was designed by students from the University of Johannesburg and launched in 2003 as part of the centenary celebrations of SAICE and Rand Water, boasted a new main sponsor this year, namely valve firm DFC Water. Teams are tasked to design a model water distribution network to distribute three litres of water equally between three points on a grid using two different diameter pipes and connection pieces. They are then judged on how well they execute the task – working on a penalty points system. Teams are allowed three tries within an hour. The Brackenfell team nabbed first place with only 30 penalty points, the best result since the start of the competition.

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