Technology&Design – Rainey Endowed School

Year 8 Micro Generators

June 13, 2019

Year 8 today built micro generators to power model electric vehicles. This was a special STEM event hosted by our friends at Sentinus. Well done year 8 –…
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First Rockets of 2019 launched

March 6, 2019

Congratulations to all Rainey Rocketeers who successfully launched their first model rockets today. Each rocket soared to over 200ft in under 2 seconds. Successful rocketeers now look…
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Bloodhound Model Rocket Car Workshop

June 20, 2018

Well done to the super Year 9 group who took part in the Bloodhound model rocket car workshop recently. Everyone listened with such enthusiasm to the lecture that…
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Rainey Rocketeering 2018

May 2, 2018

Out with the old and in with the new. For 2018 a fresh band of rocketeers took up the challenge to design and build an exceptional red and…
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Rainey Lego League Team Outstanding in Belfast

December 8, 2017

Lego League is awesome. That was the general consensus this past week. More than 240 thousand young people took part from all over the world this year…
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Technology & Design Pupils Visit Coca-Cola HBC Ireland

September 15, 2017

25 per second. Thats how many cans of Coke that the Lisburn based Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company produce. Yes they can!

Technology & Design 6th Form Visit Emerson Cookstown

September 14, 2017

Sometimes it is difficult to fully appreciate the finer details of an Industrial process in the classroom. Sometimes, books and online resources just don’t seem to do the…
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#RaineyRocketry make it three in a row

April 2, 2017

The success of #RaineyRocketry in the past few years has been matched only by the enthusiasm of its members. In 2014 the inaugural meeting was held. A team…
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Lego League Team delighted to receive @Sensata Sponsorship

October 25, 2016

Today the Lego League Team welcomed back to Rainey Endowed our industrial sponsor Sensata Technologies. Sensata are well known in Northern Ireland for their innovation with remote tyre pressure…
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Wright Bus Visit 2016 @wrightsgroup

September 16, 2016

On Friday Friday 16 September 2016, AS Technology & Design pupils together with Mr Palmer and Mr Fields, visited Europe’s leading independent bus manufacturer – Wrightsgroup in Galgorm, Ballymena.…
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Technology & Design Pupils Visit Contour Global & Coca-Cola HBC Ireland

September 11, 2016

So how much technology and science does it take to produce a bottle of Coke? To find out, a group of form 4 Technology & Design pupils traveled…
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Technology & Design visit the new sports complex

May 11, 2016

This week Technology & Design students were invited onto the site of our new sports complex. We were shown the engineering drawings and discovered how much steel really…
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GCSE Success

May 10, 2016

We would like to congratulate Rachel Burns and Megan Campbell. Rachel achieved 2nd in Technology & Design and Megan 2nd highest marks in Religious Studies. Both girls recently received…
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TheWindOp

September 29, 2015

Recently a group of Rainey Year 8 pupils began a short study focused on the Technology behind wind speed and direction detection. This class activity is being made possible…
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Technology & Design 6th Form Visit Emerson

September 29, 2015

Keeping your cool can be tricky sometimes. Ask any large food retailer, especially when potentially thousands of pounds of food stock is at stake. Fortunately for them, and…
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Technology & Design Students visit ContourGlobal

September 16, 2015

Technology is all around us. Everywhere we look we see the impact of good design and careful implementation. It impacts us every hour of every day. How we travel, communicate,…
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Rainey Rocketeering 2015

March 30, 2015

Congratulations to all Rainey Rockeeters who successfully designed, built and launched their rockets throughout February and March. The rocketeering club has more than doubled in size since last year…
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Rainey Rocketeering Resumes

January 13, 2015

It’s on! Today >20 bright young Rainey Rocketeers had their first taste of rocket building. Keep watching the skies! For previous launch videos click here

Lego League 2014

December 9, 2014

On the 2nd December 2014 eight pupils from the Rainey went to the Odyssey Arena in Belfast to compete in the annual First Lego League competition. There had been…
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Wright Bus Visit 2014

November 23, 2014

On Friday 21st November 2014, 12 Technology & Design pupils from Lower Sixth together with Mr Palmer and Mr Fields, visited Europe’s leading independent bus manufacturer – Wrightsgroup in…
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