IET Faraday Challenge Days DIY Faraday Challenge Days
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Get your students involved – enter your school into one of our exciting Faraday Challenge Days.
The annual IET Faraday Challenge is an engineering-based competition for schools. Six teams of six students, aged 12-13 years, compete against one another to see who can design, create and promote the best solution to a given challenge. All challenges are genuine, real-life engineering problems.
They draw upon and reinforce learning from science, maths and design and technology lessons. Students need to demonstrate:
creativity and innovation the ability to work as a team
the capability to project manage and act as quality controllers
presentation skills… and more!
Recent challenges have included developing applications for the BBC micro:bit and a rocket and transport system to deliver supplies to astronauts on Mars.
The winners from each event receive prizes for themselves and their schools. The top teams across the UK win an all-expenses- paid trip to the National Final to compete for a cash prize of up to £1,000 for their school. Applications to host a Faraday Challenge Day open in the spring term.
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Run your very own Challenge in school with our online DIY Faraday Challenge Days.
These are packages of guidelines and electronic resources that take you through the day, with an introductory presentation, handouts, video clips, printable Faraday currency and student certificates.
This resource is free to download and most of the practical materials you’ll need are found in typical science or design and technology departments.
Why not invite STEM Ambassadors to give you a hand on the day and bring real-life engineering experience into the classroom? Check out our ‘Bringing engineers into the classroom’ section on page 8 of this booklet.
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DIY Faraday Challenge Days available to download from
www.ietfaraday.org
Faraday Challenge Days available throughout the UK – application forms available from
www.ietfaraday.org
Key Stage 3/S1-2 Free to compete and host
Science, design and technology, engineering, computing, physics
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