STEM students complete the CityZen civil engineering challenge
Our 16 budding engineers were presented with certificates for The David Butler Award from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). The challenge aims to encourage more uptake of engineering apprenticeships and degree courses among sixth form pupils.
To enter, the students played four rounds of a digital engineering game, and worked as a team to design and build sustainable and affordable solutions to a city’s problems.
Participants were able to talk to experienced engineer and STEM ambassador, Mark, about what they were learning each week. At the end of the four rounds, they produced a two-minute video applying what they had learnt to their own real-life context.
Topics for students’ videos included improving traffic flow in Stow-on-the-Wold, building moss walls around the school site and implementing school buses running on biodiesel.
STEM coordinator, Miss Lowson, said, “The students were fantastic throughout the competition and it has been a great benefit for them to learn more about the role of civil engineers.”
Well done to Ollie T, Ollie W, Alice, Guy, Ben, Sam C, Lauren, Tom, Sam H, Jacob, Jake, Luca, Will, Joel, Oscar and Aled.
