STEPS Young Engineers Award
4th Class took part in the STEPS Young Engineers Award to develop a creative engineering project to help or improve their local community. Children are tasked with identifying a problem and work in teams to come up with a creative engineering solution. They are encouraged to focus on sustainability when creating their solution. For thi reason a lot of th groups used recycled materials.
As part of the STEPS Young Engineers Award, schools are also encouraged to invite local engineers, or sign up for a STEPS Volunteer Engineer, to visit their classroom. During this visit, children got to showcase their projects and learn about the important role of engineering in the community. Thanks to Eoghan from Sorensen for answering all of engineering questions.
Our finished projects for the STEPS Young Engineers Awards.
Building Castles
4th Class have been learning about the Normans in History. Ms. Stack has been helping the class to build their own castles in their groups. All the castles look so different from each other but they all look so impressive.
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Building Houses
5th Class were learning about houses in SESE so they decided they would build their own houses in their groups. They first designed floor plans and later built thee houses bsed on these floor plans using lego.
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Desk Tidies
4th Class worked in groups to make their own individual desk tidies. They planned out what their desk tidy would look like and decided what materials they would need. They used cardboard, toilet rolls, superglue, masking tape etc. One student came up with the idea of using lego from home to make his desk tidy.
An example of the desk tidies in use.
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Christmas Decorations
For their Entrepreneur Project, 6th Class designed and created their own Christmas decorations. They then sold them to the school community. They decided to sell them for five euro per decoration. They first had to come up with designs that we would be able to easily recreate. They sent out order forms to the classrooms and people decided which design they wanted and what they wanted written on their decoration. It was a massive success and they had over 330 orders. It showed 6th Class all the hard work, care, organisation, planning and creative in making and selling a product.
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