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Go4SET: Celebrating pupils success in the East Midlands
On the 13th of March, eleven schools from around the East Midlands gathered at Nottingham Trent University's Centre for Effective Learning in Science to showcase their Go4SET projects. Over the last ten weeks teams of 6 students from each school had been working with a local industry mentor to come up with ways of saving energy at their school.
The teams developed a variety of innovative solutions in their Go4SET projects: generating power with an exercise bike, using plants as roof insulation, "switch off the lights" campaigns and building a solar powered water heated from used car parts.
At the Celebration and Assessment Day pupils demonstrated their individual projects to a group of assessors and discussed their projects with visiting guests. Go4SET has a competition format with prizes awarded to the winning teams, all pupils did fantastically well and received EDT certificates for their involvement with Go4SET.
St John Houghton School of Kirk Hallam in Derbyshire, working with Mouchel, picked up both the main prize as judged by a panel of industry assessors and the Student's Choice Award as voted for their peers. John Flamsteed School of Ripley in Derbyshire, working with Omya, won the Innovation Prize; and Kimberley School of Kimberley in Nottinghamshire won the Team-work award.
The event is sponsored by the East Midlands Development Agency, and was shortlisted for the National Science and Engineering Week Engineering Award, the winners will be announced on Friday 20th March.
Click on the link to see pupils at the East Midlands CAD http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7942497.stm
If you require any further information please call Tim Suffield on 0115 951 6688 or email t.suffield@etrust.org.uk