Solar challenge – NTH&Tech OSA

Solar Challenge – National Finals 2026 update

Posted on 02/08/202602/08/2026 by Tim Oxley

Some readers may know about the Tasmanian Model Solar Challenge – an educational competition wherestudents build a solar powered car or boat and learn how to make it move efficiently. The dates for 2026 are: Cars – the Solar Car Challenge will take place on Sunday November 8 at HCHS.Boats Continue Reading

The sun is shining on this event

Posted on 25/05/202625/05/2026 by Roger Cutcliffe

The Solar Challenge pits the skills of students statewide and nationally to build and race solar powered model vehicles and boats. Building engineering and modern technology skills as well as cooperation and organisation are primary aims for students. The National Title is being held in Tasmania this year at the Continue Reading

A Confession

My first contact with the school was in 1942 when the Junior Technical School was in Bathurst Street and I was a student studying Chemistry at University. Our laboratory was on the second floor immediately above the broad driveway on which the school assemblies were held. The boys were tightly packed into the limited space available and we looked down upon them, as it were, from a great height. We used to sprinkle them with a fine spray of water blown from apparatus called wash bottles. They would look up at us in frustrated desperation. They could do nothing about it. They were too crowded to be able to move aside and, under the discipline of the school, unable to create a disturbance. They were sitting ducks. The university students very unfairly took advantage of the situation. But if looks could kill, we would have been consigned to everlasting perdition.

Twenty-four years later I re-appeared on the scene as Headmaster. It is remarkable how greatly perspectives can change in twenty-four years.

Des Mahoney

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