Create Sport is back for 2012!
This is an innovative challenge that the South West is very keen to support!
Key Stage 3 students will work with industry professionals to complete project work that is similar in content and form to the kind of problems they will encounter again and again in their eventual career, work experience modules, or higher education assessed tasks.
Create Sport is a competition based on providing teams of 11-13 year old (Key Stage 3) students with a project framework approximating a real working experience. Each team should contain between three and six students.
The challenge aims to:
- impress upon students the importance of STEM curriculum options in an approachable and fun context
- allow students to begin an examination of available career options within the realm of the built environment
- stimulate students’ creative nature and use of their curriculum knowledge to encounter and overcome a range of engineering problems
- involve a range of project management, technical, CDT, communicative, presentation and organisational skills.
Students and teachers will work with construction industry professionals (ICE Ambassadors) to create a design for, and build a model of, a Community Sports Venue.
The project work will then be judged regionally and prizes awarded at a regional final in Bristol next May.
For further information on Create Sport 2012, please contact Joanne Mallard at joanne.mallard@ice.org.uk or on 01752 766230.
Our 2011 Regional Final
We had six teams from five schools at our Create Sport regional final at At-Bristol on 5 May 2011, which was kindly supported by At-Bristol, Science Learning Centres, Two Seasons and Bristol University. The schools that attended were Court Fields Community School (Wellington), Penair School (Truro), Penrice Community College (St Austell), Thomas Keble School (Stroud) and Ridgeway School (Plymouth).
The winner on the day, with a design for a fencing centre featuring a flexible
gridshell roof, was Penair School (pictured above). Thomas Keble School was a close second with an innovative shell shaped stadium with a colour changing roof that would capture or reflect heat depending upon requirements. Both winner and runner-up won school bags for the team members (courtesy of Two Seasons) and two digital cameras each for their school (courtesy of Bristol University).
Penair School went on to the national final, where they also stole the show! They were rewarded for their work with a cheque for £1,000 for the school.
Well done to all those that took part in the last competition; it was thoroughly rewarding to see such enthusiasm.
We look forward to seeing next year's entries!
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