Design a Community Sports Venue
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The Create Sport Challenge is a great opportunity for 12 to 13-year-old students and their teachers to work with industry professionals.
- Students - learn about engineering and use your school subjects on a fun project
- Schools - introduce your students to engineering career options and enhance your curriculum
- Engineers - contribute to the future of the profession and earn CPD credits
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What is the Create Sport Challenge?
- The Create Sport Challenge is a national competition that will show students that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) GCSE subjects can be engaging, fun and a crucial stepping stone towards a fulfilling career in engineering
- The Challenge is to design a Community Sports Venue that meets local needs. Students will consider all the main aspects that a professional engineer would in performing similar projects
- A working engineer or an engineering graduate will work with the school students to help them consider all these aspects
- The overall aim is to impress upon students the importance of STEM curriculum options in an approachable and fun context, and to allow them to begin an examination of available career options within the built environment
Who is the Create Sport Challenge for?
- Schools are invited to form teams of three to six students of 12 to 13-year-olds to work on the project with their teachers and an engineering ambassador
- Engineering Companies are invited to release one or more ambassadors to visit local schools and help the students meet the brief. This work will count towards CPD (Continuing Professional Development)
What is involved in the Create Sport Challenge?
- Teams will work for around 20 hours, over several weeks, to meet the detailed brief provided. Project management guidelines and a dedicated competition website are also provided
- All teams that complete their projects before Easter 2011 will be entered for a regional heat of the Create Sport national competition
- Project work will be assessed independently, and when a school team excels they will have the chance of going to London to compete against others at the Create Sport National Final and prize giving ceremony on 27 June 2011
- The project work will involve project management soft skills and will introduce students to the constraints and concerns encountered in real engineering, including technical, infrastructural and sustainability issues
- All students who complete the project will be eligible for a BSA CREST Award
Winners of the Create Sport Challenge may also be able to enter the Big Bang Science Fair in 2012.
What are the benefits of the Create Sport Challenge?
- The work students will do is designed to stimulate their creative nature, and to use their curriculum knowledge to encounter and overcome a range of engineering problems
- Taking part in the project work will raise their awareness of the world around them and the things civil engineers do every day to solve worldwide and local issues
- Even if students don’t want a career in engineering the work scheme will involve a range of project management, technical, CDT, communicative, presentation, and organisational skills
How much does the Create Sport Challenge cost?
- The Create Sport Challenge is FREE to enter and could count towards a CREST Bronze award
- Schools with no record of science or technology achievement are particularly encouraged to take the Create Sport Challenge
Who devised the Create Sport Challenge?
- Create Sport is an initiative of the ICE President, Peter Hansford devised in partnership with Arup and the independent educational charity EDT (Engineering Development Trust)
- Running in parallel with Create Sport Challenge will be Create Sport Go4SET an entirely separate curriculum matched project managed by EDT. Six teams of the Create Sport Go4SET strand will eventually meet six teams from the Create Sport Challenge strand at the Create Sport national final in London
- Sponsors of the Create Sport Project include The Ove Arup Foundation, and the BRE Trust with support from the Construction Youth Trust and SportsAid
How do I take the Create Sport Challenge?
If you are a school leader, school governor, parent, teacher, student, engineering company, other built-environment company, an engineer or an engineering graduate then email the Create Sport team at: challenge@createsport.org.uk and your ICE regional representatives will explain the next steps.
Contact us now! We will be unable to accept new school teams or ambassadors after January 2011.
Find out more about Create Sport details, timetables, and prizes
Visit the Create Sport Challenge - Competition website