Insights for Action

The right tech for the job

Saturday, 18 Jul, 2020 By Paul Hewson.

A small trebuchet in action

This Trebuchet is a bit puny compared to the one at Warwick Castle. But it’s a fascinating piece of engineering, and certainly makes a bit of a difference from doing bisections with a compass. Here’s why I selected this as “the right tech” to use in school outreach work.

This is old work now, but I learnt a lot getting involved in it. We seem to have designed a school curriculum with the sole intended outcome of …