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D&T Week:

Monday 21 – Friday 25 June D&T Week provides
a focus for all aspects of D&T education

Activities

• A design and technology challenge for whole year groups
• Having a designer in residence Industry-based design
  and make activities
• Mini-enterprise activities
• Exhibition of work in school or in the local community
• Visits to local companies, museums or activity centres

As a wide range of activities is possible, organisation may have to be at many different levels, but the following key steps may be helpful for planning:

• Draft ideas for an activity
• Hold a meeting with colleagues in schools, or with local schools or LA staff
• Agree the proposals then develop an action plan to set up the event

Advertise the event - use the D&T Association website, D&T Stream or D&T News, your LA and your local Learning and Skills council, which has responsibility for supporting engineering and technology education.

Seek sponsors if required Plan venues and activities Ensure local press, radio, television are invited to the launch.

D&T Association KS3-KS4 Actuation Design Engineering Challenge 2010

Take one golf ball...

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We would like to challenge a team of your KS3-KS4 students to design a one-minute actuation sequence, using a standard golf ball, then to film it in action and submit the results.

For examples of amateur actuation sequences view:

• Creme that Egg! On YouTube
• The Contraptions videos
• OK Go - This Too Shall Pass
  

Teams can use these for inspiration but should then develop their own ideas and be as imaginative as possible!

Performance criteria

1. The track should convey one golf ball, with no outside assistance, on a journey that lasts exactly one minute, from one point to another, using as many ingenious mechanisms as possible to control its passage.
2. The clock will start from the moment the golf ball starts moving to the moment it stops.
3. Once the golf ball is put onto the track there must be no other human interference to keep the ball in motion.
4. The video submitted should comprise one single take following the course of the ball from start to finish.

Judging criteria (judging will be carried out by trustees of the Design and Technology Association)

Marks will be awarded for

1. each mechanism successfully incorporated into your track
2. creativity and inventiveness
3. entertainment value

Marks will be deducted for

1. every second over or under 1 minute that the ball takes to cover the course.

Entries

Entries must be submitted as a continuous unedited video clip to be emailed to deborah@data.org.uk by the deadline of Monday 28 June 2010, together with details of contact name, school name, school address, phone and email and the ages and number of team participants.

Winners

Representatives of the top 3 winning teams will

• be invited to exhibit and demonstrate their work for one day at the Association’s 2010 annual conference (on Thursday 8 July at Keele University)
• have their video clips showcased on the Association’s website.

Prizes

Simple Machines Deluxe Sets – supplied by Data Harvest

The overall winning school in each of the KS3 and KS4 categories will receive a Simple Machines Deluxe set, kindly supplied by our challenge sponsor, Data Harvest. Part of the K’NEX Education construction set range, this massive class set (3,447 pieces) comes with teacher’s guides and instructions for 60 working models based on 5 different mechanisms. In addition there are building instructions for the 1.5 metre tall Big Ball Factory, which is a masterpiece showing an automated mechanical system, without any electronics!
(An alternative prize from the K’NEX Education range in the Data Harvest catalogue, up to the value of the Simple Machines Deluxe set, is available if a prize-winning school already has the Simple Machines Deluxe set) Visit www.dataharvest.co.uk