As always the regional North West Big Bang competition was one of the highlights of the year. This year a number of our Y10 students have worked either individually or in teams to complete their projects. their projects ranged from plastic reduction solutions, to new medical solutions and have even dabbled in the use of AI.
We are very impressed with all of the work the students have completed and how well they presented at the regional event. Students displayed their work well and spoke confidently to the judges and visitors throughout the event.
Three of the projects were selected to compete in the national final of the Big Bang Competition. This will be held at the NEC Birmingham in March 2019.
The projects selected were were:
Luke and Sofia with their plastics filtration pipe project FP Clean
Blanka , Ben, Issac and Zac with their Mediglue design,
and finally, Lucus with “Oliver” the robot.
In addition to this Katie , Meera and Tasha received the Knowsley Safari Award for Protecting the environment with their project Mush Better planet.
Mush Better Planet - explores the idea of a mycelium (mushroom) based alternative to plastic products.
Mediglue - experimented with a biological alternative to stitches, To heal injuries.
FP Clean - looked into the use of a variety of filters to remove microplastics from waste water.
Oliver - is a robot that has been designed by one of our students that functions through the use of an AI he has coded.