Ben and Ben are the theme park ride men

Posted on May 26, 2006

Eaton Bray Lower School entered a team of winners in the Bedfordshire and Luton area final of the K'Nex Challenge 2006 at Cranfield University on Friday.

They were Benjamin Baker and Benjamin Johnson (both in Year 4) who had won the school heat of the event earlier in the year.

The area heat of the national competition for pupils aged from seven to 11 involved schools from all over Bedfordshire and Luton, including lower, middle and primary schools up to Year 6.

The brief was to design and build a theme park ride out of K'Nex, and the two Bens produced an excellent design thanks to superb teamwork.

Their design was chosen as the overall winner out of 57, and the judges congratulated them on their hard work commenting on how good their design was considering they were up against teams of older children up to the age of 11.

The boys won a K'Nex set for their school and a box of K'Nex each. They will now be one of two teams representing the Bedfordshire and Luton area in the Anglia regional finals of the challenge in July.

Source: Dunstable Gazette, 24 May 2006