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Thorpe Park – DIY Faraday Challenge Day briefing video

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  • Duration: 5 mins
  • Publication date: 17 Jan 2019

Abstract

An introductory briefing video for the Thorpe Park DIY Faraday Challenge Day from the 2017/18 season of events. This video features engineers from Thorpe Park and sets the brief for the challenge. This video can be shown to your students at the start of your challenge day to set the scene and put the challenge into context.  These resources can be accessed in full on the IET Faraday website www.ietfaraday.org

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  • Faraday
  • Faraday challenge
  • Merlin
  • Thorpe Park
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    Dawn Childs

    Merlin Entertainments, Group Engineering Director

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    Chris Bell

    Thorpe Park Resort, Technical Services Director

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