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Headline: District Final: Roundhay School Wins - AGAIN!
In early March this year, Roundhay School won the Advanced Team Prize in the Leeds Schools Rotary Clubs' Technology Tournament. Now they have won the Rotary District 1040 Final too, with a prize of £200 going to the school's Design and Technology Department to purchase equipment,
and a £25 iTunes voucher for each of the four members of the winning team.
The prizes were presented at the school on Wednesday 5th May by the District Governor, Rotarian Emyr Lloyd-Davies. The school's technology teacher and members of the Leeds Tournament organising committee were also present.
The winning team is shown here with their Trophy, Certificates and the winning model. The members of the team are (Left Picture, l to r) Henry Lee, Tom Wong, Natashia Ward and Charlotte Ward. District Governor Em is in the background.
Well Done Everyone!
Eleven local area Rotary Technology Tournaments were held this year all over Rotary District 1040 (West and North Yorkshire) with schools entering teams in age groupings: basic, intermediate and advanced. Over 1000 youngsters took part and had a stimulating, enjoyable and testing, but fun day out. See 2010 Event page (tab on left) for details of the task they were set. The teams had to document their ideas, designs, test results and so on, in a ‘portfolio'. The team's efforts were judged by a panel of Rotarians and Industrialists with backgrounds in engineering, technology, enterprise and education.
For the District Final, the working models and supporting portfolios of the winning Advanced Group teams were collected up at the end of each Tournament, and then subjected to further scrutiny by three judges on 8th April at the Crown Hotel in Harrogate. No students were required to be involved in this ‘Final' stage of the competition.
Roundhay School Technology College was declared the winner, with the two runners up being Richmond School (Rotary North Group - Catterick Event) and Lady Lumley's School, Pickering (York Group Event).
For details of the judging for the Final CLICK HERE
and for the report on the District 1040 Website CLICK HERE.
Well Done Roundhay, and all the participating Teams.
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Leeds Rotary Technology Tournament, 2nd March 2010.
A few months ago, ten of the Leeds Rotary Clubs threw down the gauntlet to Leeds schools to take part in
‘Leeds Rotary Technology Tournament, 2010'.
***** LISTEN TO THE BBC RADIO LEEDS REPORT ON THE EVENT *****
The event took place at the South Leeds Stadium (John Charles Sports Centre) Leeds, on Tuesday 2nd March. Thirty-nine teams from 15 schools took part. 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.
The Winners were:
Basic: St Mary's School, Menston.
Intermediate: Farnley Park School.
Advanced: Roundhay High School.
A prize for the best innovative solution to the task was awarded to
the Roundhay High School Intermediate Team.
See details of the 2010 event with pictures by clicking on the tab to the left.
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News Items:
The Rotary Clubs' Youth Opportunities Programmes are aimed at improving the personal development and skills of young individuals, Technology Tournaments have been held nationwide in the last few years, and 2010 was the fourth year for the Leeds event. Schools can enter teams for the task at 3 levels - Basic (Years 7, 8 and 9 - age 11 to 13), Intermediate (Years 10 and 11 - age 13 to 15) and Advanced (Years 12 and 13 - age 15 to 18).
Continuing Professional Development for teachers is being undertaken by Education Leeds using The Technology Tournament as the basis.
After the 2009 Event, a School Group was set up with Advisors from Rotary.
A teacher's learning pack is under advanced development. The Rotary Technology Tournament Chief and Advanced Task Judges were involved in assessing the pilot stage at the South Leeds Learning Centre. Four teams were involved (two basic and one each at intermediate and advanced) and a basic team won the event - well done to them! The progress on the development was covered in a teachers CPD session at the 2010 Tournament by Christine Marsden (Education Leeds) and Adrian Blanshard (Morley School).
We in Rotary greatly applaud this development as one of the key aims is to stimulate enterprise in all schools.
The Event will be repeated on 8th March 2011, same venue.
(N.B. Date put back a week from previously published because of nearness of half-term.)
Interested in taking part or sponsoring us?
See the rest of this website for more information, and use the contact links if you want more details.
Page Updated 6th May 2010
