DT Summer Project & Engineering Competition 2023 - 2024
24 Jul 2023
DT summer project & engineering competition 23-24
On Friday, we launched an introduction to next years design and technology competition ‘if you were an engineer what would you do? This is a UK wide engineering competition for all children aged 3-19 and we would love for all children in the federation to have the chance to enter their ideas. We launched the competitions with discussions on what engineering is, examples of how things have been engineered and why products have been created: to help make things easier, more efficient, safer etc.
Students have been sent home with a home discovery logbook. Over the summer we hope that your children will have time to simply observe what’s happening in life and find a problem to fix – they have been provided with a space to jot any ideas down and we will pick these ideas back up in the autumn term. We have already been wowed with some of the ideas already suggested today, such as: the laptop that can charge using a detachable solar panel for countries with limited electricity; a football that is self inflating; a tennis ball that has a tracker for when you hit it two hard an lose it in the bushes and the paint that has soap included in it so you can wash off with just water if it gets on your clothes.
https://leadersaward.com/ it the link for further information on the competition if interested.
Good luck in your observations.
Mrs Field