Shell Bright Ideas Challenge
Welcome to the homepage for the Year 8, 9 & 10 after school STEM club competition entries for the Shell, Bright Ideas Challenge.
For the 2019-2020 Entries, the PowerPoint we will be filling in can be found HERE
The entry form to be filled in is HERE!
Shell Bright Ideas Challenge 2018 - STEM Club Regional WINNERS!
Four teams from Toot Hill's after school STEM Club entered the Shell Bright Ideas Challenge and we are delighted to announce that not only were we shortlisted in the top 50 school Nationally but one of our teams has now been confirmed as REGIONAL WINNERS. This involves £1500 STEM funding for the school, vouchers for the students and a two day, fully funded STEM trip to Make the Future Live in the Olympic Park in London.
The winning team was Keisha Dowlman, Joel Bingham and Maisie Warner whose "Bright Idea" to solve future city energy problems was for a device to Digest Food Waste and generate gas for cooking in domestic kitchens. They called it the M.A.D.E Cooker (Micro Anaerobic Digester Energy) and it obviously impressed the judges enough to award us the prestigious prize.
Honourable mentions should also go to the other 3 teams who also independently came up with an idea, tested and trialed it and put forward competition entries of their own. Well done: Dave Wood, Hasan Raoof, Tom Middleton, Ben Hollands, Aidan Herrington, Reuben Willis, Charlie Henry, Isaac Thorn, Joe Smith, Ashmit Thomas, Charlie Martindale, Kieran Donnelly, Daniel McLean and also Lewis Watt who had been a member of the winning team but dropped out part way through.
The winning team will be off to the the Shell Make the Future Live STEM Festival and Award Ceremony on July 4th and 5th.
Huge congratulations to the team and all of the other students involved!
Full Project Teams below:
Team Thermite Steam Turbine
- Dave Wood
- Hasan Raoof
- Tom Middleton
- Ben Hollands
- Aidan Herrington
Team City Cycle Energy Generation
- Reuben Willis
- Charlie Henry
- Isaac Thorn
Team Micro Anaerobic Digester
- Joel Bingham
- Lewis Watt
- Maisie Warner
- Keisha Dowlman
Team Surplus Energy Electrolysis for Hydrogen Storage
- Joe Smith
- Ashmit Thomas
- Charlie Martindale
- Kieran Donnelly
- Daniel McLean
@TootHillSTEM
5th Dec 2019: What a great afternoon of hands on #STEM action for year 10 & the STEM club. Huge thanks to @JohnDeere who came (by… https://t.co/J2YbKjW4Qt- 25th Nov 2019: After a lot of work behind the scenes we are now delighted to announce that @JohnDeere will be visiting… https://t.co/D5UrfYxWn1
- 21st Nov 2019: @Bloodhound_LSR Really interesting, going to show this to my students. Great work to everyone involved.
- 25th Oct 2019: Congratulations guys, what a fantastic achievement! A LOT of work goes into this. https://t.co/nQGzisGDYh
- 23rd Oct 2019: Our year 9 #STEM day is underway. The @Tomorrows_Eng #energyquest gets students thinking about future energy needs… https://t.co/gKaRVV9kB6
STEM Pathways News
- John Deere Practical STEM workshop for year 10
John Deere will be visiting the school on Thursday 5th December to run 2 year 10 practical workshops (25/11/2019) - Big Bang Fair - East Midlands STEM Event
Year 8 & 9 visit the East Midlands biggest event for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (28/06/2019) - Yr 10 Engineering Apprenticeship Trips
Industrial Visits to Barnstone Cement Works and John Deere in Langar. (21/06/2019) - International Women in Engineering Day, Tarmac visit for a Yr 8 girls STEM event
Engineers from Barnstone Cement works visited Toot Hill on 22nd June to deliver a hands on workshop (11/07/2018) - Shell Bright Ideas Challenge - STEM Club Regional WINNERS!
Our STEM Club are Regional Winners of the Competition, winning £1500 and a 2 day trip to London! (11/06/2018)
