Geronimo! on BBC Two

17 January 2005 - 27 January 2005

Geronimo! is based on a set of engineering challenges held on the beach at the end of October 2004. Teams of budding (and professional!) engineers from schools, universities and industry were invited to enter machines they had built to do penalty shoot-outs and triple jumps at Weston-super-Mare. In Blackpool the challenge was to build an amphibious racer and a sand-digging machine.

The programmes are family oriented and the emphasis is very much on fun and hands-on engineering. They will be presented by Fearne Cotton (CBBC and Top of the Pops) and Dick Strawbridge, a past champion of Scrapheap Challenge and recently retired Lt-Col in the Signals Regiment who recreated some astonishing war time inventions for Crafty Tricks of War, his highly successful BBC Two series shown earlier this year.

Advising on repairs where necessary and judging the winners from an Academy "Battlebus" are four very experienced engineers: Professor John Burland FREng FRS, Professor Jim Randle RDI FREng, Professor Eur Ing Chris Pearce FREng and Professor Paul Wiese.