MegaWorld: Sweden

Product Description

A STEM Curriculum Resource for Engineering and Science students.

Travel to the biggest, fastest, most exciting engineering, automotive and construction projects across the globe. This series highlights a variety of innovative and awing scientific feats in different countries.

MegaWorld is a fun, fast paced, experiential approach to presenting a country or region’s innovations in science and technology. Projects Include: – Manufacturing of the world’s biggest truck – Transportation on Canada’s epic ice roads – Futuristic skyscrapers in the fastest growing cities – Conceptualizing the strongest rocket on the planet -Traveling underwater in a high-tech submersible – Testing and perfecting Formula One race cars – Development of floating house communities – Retrofitting San Francisco’s Bay Bridge

Sweden

Roar into Sweden with a look at one of the world’s fastest cars: the Koenigsegg. This U.S. $650,000 vehicle is capable of reaching speeds of 388km per hour. For more automotive marvels, “MegaWorld” heads out to top secret winter driving courses where the world’s leading car manufacturers test their prototypes. Go underground and watch as the mission control center for the world’s largest underground mine uses joysticks to move trains, tractors and loading machines via a network of underground cameras. Then, visit the one spot on earth where Absolut Vodka is made and go inside their incredible bottle assembling line. MegaWorld takes to the air from Western Europe’s largest overland test area where the Swedish armed forces test missiles intended for enemy aircraft.