Challenge 2012 – STEM Challenge 10
Imagine planning a major sporting event near your school!
The Prizes include London 2012 tickets!
Gold Medal: £2,500 for your school’s STEM club, 8 tickets for a London 2012 Olympic Hockey event and London 2012 merchandise.
Silver Medal: £1,000 for your school’s STEM club, 8 tickets for a London 2012 Olympic Canoeing event and London 2012 merchandise.
Bronze Medal: £500 for your school’s STEM club, 8 tickets for a London 2012 Olympic Rowing event and London 2012 merchandise.
Teams across the country are hard at work putting the finishing touches to their entries. Registration closed on 15 May 2012.
Still looking for an exciting London 2012-themed activity for your students? Don’t worry, all the Challenge 2012 materials are still available to use with your class – see the links below (omitting the registration step). Give it a go!
Step 1: The Challenge Brief
Cisco and STEMNET are challenging 11 to 16-year-olds to use their maths and science skills to plan a major sporting event in their local area.
The Challenge is to plan a major sporting event that would excite and inspire, transform the local area and showcase local and national talent. For the Challenge entries, students must choose a sport and a venue or location, and work out what resources, facilities and equipment would be needed for the event. They will also need to provide enough evidence to convince a panel of judges that their event is accessible and sustainable, and that it will leave a lasting legacy for their local area.
Step 2: Register Your Teams
• 4 to 6 students per team
• Maximum 4 teams per school
Follow the link below for more information on how to register your teams for the competition element of STEM Challenge 10.
The deadline for team registration into STEM Challenge 10 is:
Tuesday 15 May 2012 at 5pm.
PLEASE NOTE: Teams are NOT required to have completed their entry by this date – all competition entries will be judged at a local event between 21 May and 30 May 2012. You will receive detailed local information soon after the competition deadline.
The top 8 teams from across the UK will be selected to compete in the National Final on Friday 6 July 2012 at Cisco House in London – overlooking the Olympic Park.
Step 3: Teacher Notes
This is where teachers can find out how Challenge 2012/STEM Challenge 10 will work – just follow the links below.
• Teacher Notes include lots of hints and tips for your teams, and further information on the judging process and rules of entry into the competition.
• Curriculum Links
• Presentation Advice
Video
Teams may include their own 2-minute video as part of their
12-minute presentation to the judges. Take the opportunity
to put the ‘T’ in STEM!
Step 4: Starter Activity
The Starter Activity could be used to introduce your students to Challenge 2012/STEM Challenge 10.
It is designed to explore some of the issues that might affect the planning of a major sporting event.
Click here for guidance on delivering the Starter Activity
Step 5: Extra Support Materials
Follow the links below for further useful support materials to help with Challenge 2012/STEM Challenge 10:
• Factsheet 1 – Choosing a sport and a venue
• Factsheet 2 – Infrastructure and accessibility
• Factsheet 3 – Sustainability and legacy
• Olympic Sports factfile
• Paralympic Sports factfile
Remember – you don’t have to use these suggested activities and resources (or the Starter Activity).
And don’t forget – browsing is better than printing – save the planet and THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT!
We also have a dedicated Challenge 2012 Materials page where you can find all resources you might need to help you create a winning entry, including videos of Olympic athletes introducing Challenge 2012 and organisers explaining the design and construction of London 2012 sites.
Click here to go to the Challenge 2012 Materials page
Launch Competition
Congratulations to our winners!
Thank you to the 533 classes that entered our launch competition.
Think you solved the puzzle?
1) K – Carbon fibre
2) E – The mean height is less than the median height
3) Y – 1.92 m/s2
4) H – Nervous system
5) O – 864 m2
6) C – 5.8 m/s
The well-known Olympic Sport is HOCKEY.
All correct entries were entered into a prize draw and 25 winners were drawn at random. A handheld digital video camera is on its way to these lucky classes:
Class 9X1 from Caroline Chisholm School, Northampton
Class 7H from South Axholme Academy, Doncaster
The Gifted and Talented Group from St John the Baptist School, Woking
Class 7y2 from Plashet School, London
Class LEB PT Astle House from Sandwell Academy, West Bromwich
Class 6C2 from Balfron High School, Glasgow
Class 7T from St Philomena’s School, Carshalton
Class 10SX from Dormston School, Dudley
Class 10b/Sc1 from Oaklands Catholic School, Waterlooville
Class 1.4 from St. Columba’s High School, Gourock
Maths class 1a1 from Perth Grammar School, Perth
Class 8P from The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
Class 10K/ScJK2 from JFS School, Harrow
Class 3A1 Chemistry from Millburn Academy, Inverness
The Maths Club from Downs School, Newbury
The STEM Club from Carleton Community High School, Pontefract
Class NKT from Jack Hunt School, Peterborough
Class 8b3 from Sponne School, Towcester
Class 10KS from Dundonald High School, Belfast
Year 10 class from Hayes School, Bromley
Class 8.3 Curie from The Ursuline Academy, Ilford
Class 3A1 from Hazlehead Academy, Aberdeen
Class 7A from Charters School, Ascot
Class 7 AMJ from Parrs Wood High School, Manchester
Class 11AA from Westborough High School, Dewsbury
All the class teachers have been contacted via the email address used to enter the launch competition.
