Year 8 Students Triumph at IET Faraday Challenge

Pictured above with their certificates and trophy are:

Jamie P, Rylan T, Bella T, Libby N, Zara A, Isabelle O, Margaret Q, Kate H, Maya D, Harry K & Mark S all from Year 8 

Yesterday, some of our outstanding Year 8 Design Technology students attended the IET Faraday Challenge at The Sellafield Centre for Engineering Excellence at Cleator.

The IET Faraday Challenge is an annual competition of STEM activity days, which are designed to be cross curricular and cover hands on activities spanning science, technology, engineering and maths.

The students were asked to develop an engineering solution for one of three Design Briefs.

The Design Briefs were:

• Outdoor Activities
• Educational Toy
• A device for aiding disabled people

The students had to plan, cost, manufacture and present their ideas to a panel of 3 IET representatives. They all worked extremely well, and after fighting off stiff competition from other local schools came home victorious!

Mr Stevenson said: “Well done Year 8, we are all very, very proud!”

Scroll through for some more photos of the day: