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The Club held its 2026 Technology Tournament on Monday 16 March at The Grange School, Aylesbury.

Students were asked to design a vehicle to clear rubble from a 2m pipeline. Each team was given a motor, batteries and construction materials to design and build their vehicle in 4hrs. They then had to demonstrate it to our judges, either clearing the rubble out of the way, or collecting it and bringing it back along the pipe.

Across Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced stages, great ingenuity was shown by the teams, which came from The Grange School, Aylesbury High School, John Colet School, The Cottesloe School and Aylesbury Grammar School

We were hosted again by The Grange School. Many thanks go to them and their brilliant team of Student Skippers, who helped the event to run smoothly. Aylesbury Mayor Cllr Nidhi Mehta presented the awards.

Winners in Foundation were Aylesbury High School (who also won Best Portfolio, where they set out their ideas and planning); Intermediate winners were The Grange and Advanced was won by Aylesbury Grammar School. Congratulations to them all.

Dentaid Promotioinal Stall – 30 Year Celebration

The dental charity DENTAID (https://www.dentaid.org/) is celebrating its 30th anniversary since it started providing dental kits and advice/help to overseas countries.  Our Club helped Dentaid with donations and a grant in conjunction with other Rotary Clubs to provide dental kits.  In 2015 a Dentaid volunteer dentist began part time dental treatment in the UK for vulnerable people in the community who were unable to access dental care.  Rotary, and our Club, has continued to support the development with fundraising and donations over the years, and on Saturday 28th March a promotional stall was set up in Aylesbury Market Square to publicise Dentaid’s work in the community.  Their mobile dental units have brought dentistry to all parts of the country with the support of their volunteer dentists and nurses.  Their BrightBites program has brought oral health information to thousands of children, and they continue to support dentists overseas by providing equipment, sharing and providing skills, and helping them reach communities.

A Dentaid/BrightBites volunteer, and a retired volunteer dentist, shared valuable advice and information with a steady number of families coming to the stall, and it is hoped to sign up a local school for a BrighBites visit.  There was a teeth model for children to show how they clean their teeth, and balloons and gifts were given out.

Aylesbury Hundreds Rotary Club will continue to fully support the work of Dentaid.  You can support them directly via https://www.dentaid.org/fundraise, or via our Club.

On Saturday 24 January we held our Rotary Club Youth Competition, Youth Speaks 2026.  A brilliant Youth Event kindly hosted by Church of the Holy Spirit. Our winners were from Aylesbury High School, with their debate: Should social media be banned for <16s globally?

As Chair of Judges, Laura Kyrke-Smith MP and her fellow judges chose our worthy winners from five competing teams, with topics also including That modern workplace culture is fundamentally biased in favour of men and Failure teaches students more than success.

Mayor Nidhi Mehta joined Laura in presenting the awards.

Best Team Chair went to a team from The Kingsbrook School.

Our winners will progress to the District Finals

Our next Rotary Rocks charity fund raiser gig on 01 May 2026 featuring the debut gig of The Dead Cherry Pickers Music Society is now SOLD OUT.  For details see Upcoming Events.  Many thanks to all who have bought tickets.  Thanks also to the following businesses who have kindly contributed raffle prizes for this event:

Chiltern Railways, Heritage & Sons Funeral Directors, Waterside Theatre, Michael Anthony Estate Agents, Rogue Bowling, Miller & Carter, Tesco, Caffe Nero, The Plough, Rococo Lounge and Queens Park Arts Centre.

We went a little early with Young Chef this time, holding our local heat on 22 November 2025. We were again hosted by The Kingsbrook School.

To a budget of £12.00, students from secondary schools across Aylesbury prepared two course meals, including dishes such as Pan-fried cod loin with potato dauphinoise, Salmon in white wine sauce with couscous and Sri Lankan skewered chicken. Desert options included Raspberry compote with dark chocolate shavings, Poached pears and Brazilian carrot cake. All had to be completed in 2hrs

Judges Daniel Richardson, Head Chef at Hartwell House and Adam Parsons, General Manager at the Five Arrows in Waddesdon (and a former Young Chef contestant!), seen here with the Mayor of Aylesbury Nidhi Mehta,  tasted every dish and settled on a winner from The Kingsbrook School, whose Chicken breast with mushrooms and baby pots and desert of Lemon Mousse are shown here

Prizes were provided by Hartwell House, The Five Arrows and The Woolpack at Stoke Mandeville.

Our winner, seen here with Daniel Richardson and the Mayor of Aylesbury, will now go on to the District Final in February 2026.

Other events for students coming up in early 2026 include Youth Speaks, our debating competition, in January, and our Young Artist and Young Writer competitions, in March.

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