2010 Event.
What is the event about?
Around Great Britain each year, a number of Rotary clubs in an area collaborate to run a design and technology based competition for schools, as part of Rotary's Youth Opportunities Programme. Schools enter teams of 4 students at Basic, Intermediate and Advanced levels. The events are held at convenient venues. In Leeds, ten local Rotary Clubs are involved. The event in this our fourth year was at the John Charles Sports Centre, Leeds LS11 5DJ (for map click here) on Tuesday March 2nd 2010.
‘Leeds Rotary Technology Tournament, 2010'.
The Deputy Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Andrew Barker attended, along with Mrs Barker, and presented the prizes to the winners. The District Governor of Rotary District 1040, Rotarian Emyr Lloyd-Davies was also there. The teams had to design and build a 'flashing beacon' which illuminated a sign advertising a charity of their choice.
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The Winners were:
Basic: St Mary's Catholic School, Menston.
Intermediate: Farnley Park School.
Advanced: Roundhay High School.
ROUNDHAY SCHOOL ADVANCED TEAM WENT ON TO WIN THE DISTRICT FINAL - See NEWS UPDATE (Tab on left)
A prize for the best innovative solution to the task was awarded to
the Roundhay High School Intermediate Team.
Congratulations to all those taking part in the Competition,
(and well done to the Rotarians for organising and running the event. The staff of the John Charles Centre for Sport also deserve a big 'Thank You' for looking after us all so well.)
The Task required the teams to design, make and test a 'Flashing Beacon' which was to illuminate an advertisement for a Charity. The students were given a battery and light bulb in a holder in addition to the usual materials such as strip wood, dowel, paper clips, tape, wire, cardboard, glue, kitchen foil, elastic bands etc., and came up with some marvellous ideas, which they then had to translate, using their manual skills into the working model. They also had to document their thoughts, ideas, test results, decision choices, plans etc. in a 'portfolio'. The whole process was assessed by the Judges. Most of the teams built a 'tower' or 'frame' to which their advertisment was attached, and worked out that to get the 'beacon' bulb to flash a pendulum was needed to make and break the electrical circuit.
Thirty-nine teams from fifteen schools from all over Leeds took part.
These are the trophies the students compete for:
A very enjoyable and rewarding day was had by all, not only by the students and their teachers, but by the Rotarians from the 10 Clubs involved. It was fun!
We will be doing it all again next year - on 1st March 2011 - but the task will be different, and the students will not know what it is until 9.30 a.m. on the day. We will be sending details to schools later in the year.
Interested in sponsoring us? - We would be very interested to talk to you. Please use the links below:
CONTACTS:
For Schools:
mailto:schools.contact@rotary-technology-leeds.org
For the event
mailto:event.queries@rotary-technology-leeds.org
For current and potential sponsors
mailto:sponsorship@rotary-technology-leeds.org
