If you were an Engineer, what would you do? This was the question posed to 700 pupils ranging from Year 2 to Year 10 as part of a national Engineering competition this year, a project designed to find the next promising UK inventor. Beating over 70,000 students nationwide, Liverpool College students celebrated massive success on Wednesday, culminating in an award ceremony at Liverpool Edge Hill University.
The designs of winning young engineers, and those highly commended, were displayed in a wonderful gallery on campus, followed by a superb award ceremony at the University. Budding STEM stars were presented with trophies, badges and certificates by industry experts in Engineering fields. As part of the award ceremony, every students’ work was also individually displayed, discussed and celebrated on the big screen – watched on by invited family and friends.
This year Liverpool College had ten year-group category winners and a further ten runner-up highly commended entries - the highest number from any one school in the entire North West!
The Winning Young Engineers were: Alexander D (Ch3), Julia V D H and Sienna S (Ch7), Orla D and Tanvir H (Ch8), Aiden H and Bailie H (Ch9) and Jeffrey L and Orla C (Ch10)
Receiving Runner Up ‘Highly Commended’ awards were: Jack G (Ch2), Noah M (Ch4), Mia F and Noah J (Ch7), Dareen M and Arad E (Ch8), Lois H and Amy G (Ch9) and Jack T and Charlie P (Ch10).
To participate in the competition, pupils had to identify a problem they had observed in real life, invent a solution to that problem, illustrate and annotate their creation, promote their product through a descriptive ‘Pitch Letter’ and meet a real engineer. We had over 750 students participating in this incredible creative thinking design engineering competition, co-ordinated across the whole school by Mrs Doran. Well done to all who entered this year - the standard from Liverpool College was described as absolutely phenomenal by the judges!
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Where do writers get their inspiration from? How do you write poems to engage and entertain? How can you write to make people laugh, imagine – and think? These were just some of the questions answered by professional poet Debra Bertulis this week, who visited Ch7 to deliver a fabulous poetry writing workshop. Debra shared with students her inspiring story, including her early struggles with dyslexia that significantly affected her confidence and love of writing. Sharing her poetry tool box, she inspired the pupils to think creatively to create reactions in their readers and to free pupils from the writing rules that might be constraining them. If you would like to read Debra’s poems, her debut poetry collection "Where Do Wishes Go?" is published by Otter-Barry Books and two of her poems also feature on the LAMDA syllabus. Our thanks to Mrs Doran for organising the event.
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