Last week saw our Workington Academy Innovate Competition Final take place, which was battled out between six teams of Year 7, 8 and 9 students who put their inventiveness, creativity and teamwork to the test.
This is all part of the Cumbria Education Trust ‘Innovate Challenge’, whereby students in Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 have been challenged to show outstanding teamwork to create a world changing idea – focused around helping the environment. Their task being to Generate, Design, Advertise and Present their world changing idea to a panel of judges.
As part of our Workington Academy Innovate Final – our students pitched their ideas to our very own ‘Dragons;’– Mr Bird, Mr Bedford and Mrs O’Hagan.
The standard of the competition was incredibly high, with all teams generating and presenting excellent ideas and products with great confidence and clarity, all of which could certainly be moved forward to help and support the environment.
Based on the Competition Criteria – the teams were judged on the following;
- Concept – what makes their project innovative, interesting or different from similar projects?
- Purpose – how well will the product solve the problem identified?
- Creativity – shown in the project design, model and logo.
- Teamwork – shown throughout all stages of the project.
- Pitch Quality – presentation skills, enthusiasm, clarity and connection with audience.
The results were as follows;
Third Place:
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Team Name: Team Turbine |
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Product Name: Two Birds – One Turbine |
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Year 9 Students: Stephen Embleton Connor Fitzwilliam Kate Tomlinson Olivia Barlow |
Second Place:
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Team Name: Turbine Girls |
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Product Name: Hydro Breeze Turbine |
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Year 7 Students: Sophie Harrison Alesha Poole Yasmin O’Pray Lily Hill |
First Place:
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Team Name: Sewer Savers |
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Product Name: Bionets |
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Year 8 Students: Tiegan Hargrave Abigail Bewley Lewis Rodgers Kobie Metherell |
Other Workington Academy Finalists include;
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Team Name: Region Green |
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Product Name: Aqua Multi Tasker |
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Year 8 Students: Scarlett Edmondson Katie Hucknall-Smith Callum Hill Jacob Cochrane |
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Team Name: Eco Mill |
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Product Name: Eco Filter |
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Students: Freya Melville Aimee-Barnes Wilson Kian Dunstan Wilfie Reed |
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Team Name: Ocean Saviours |
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Product Name: Oceanic Rubbish Compactor |
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Students: Luke Hendren Kale Skelton Millie Kirk Grace Hughes |
Sewer Savers will go on to represent Workington Academy at the prestigious CET Innovate Final, to be held at The Whitehaven Academy’s new building on Thursday 24 March. They will compete against teams from across all other schools in Cumbria Education Trust, pitching their idea to members of the CET Leadership Team and External Judging Panel in a bid to become the CET Innovate Champions 2022.
Good Luck Sewer Savers and well done to all involved!
