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Follow the growth of BERTIE the sugar beet with weekly updates and compare the growth with your own BERTIE's grown from seeds we supply.
Preparation time: < 1 hr
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Children Challenging Industry (CCI) aims to enthuse primary school children about science, and provide classroom-based training for teaching the National Curriculum for Science.
Running time: 1 - 8 weeks
Preparation time: 1 day - 1 week
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Energy Foresight supports the delivery of the radioactivity and related areas of the national curriculum for science.
Running time: 1 - 8 weeks
Preparation time: 1 day - 1 week
Clubs & In-School Activities
This challenge is a national and international competition requiring young people between the ages of 9-16 to design, build and program robots to perform tasks on a specially designed mat following a certain theme, changing each year.
Preparation time: < 1 hr
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FIRST LEGO League is a UK-wide programme that combines hands-on, interactive robotics activities with a sports-like atmosphere, using a LEGO MINDSTORMS robot set.
Running time: 1 - 8 weeks
Preparation time: 1 - 4 hrs
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I’m a Scientist is an award winning event, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, and is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of £500 to communicate their work.
Running time: 1 - 8 weeks
Preparation time: 1 - 4 hrs
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Invent! is an annual competition run for primary and secondary school pupils, where pupils are encouraged to let their imagination run wild and become inventors! Judged by a celebrity panel, previous winners have enjoyed 'A Grand Engineering Day Out' in London, following a competition workshop day for finalists held in the East Midlands.
Running time: 1 - 8 weeks
Preparation time: 1 - 8 weeks
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Using basic skills mathematics, and working in teams of 2, students set up a virtual racing car to race against others.
Running time: 1 - 8 weeks
Preparation time: 1 - 4 hrs
Out-of-school Activity
Mathematics masterclasses for more able and talented years 9 pupils from schools in Swansea and Carmarthenshire to stimulate and encourage young people in the art and practice of mathematics and to develop a sense of enjoyment in the subject.
Running time: 1 - 8 weeks
Preparation time: 4 - 8 hrs
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Motivate provides highly interactive live maths, science and cross-curricular videoconferences with associated project work for KS1-5.
Preparation time: 1 day - 1 week