NEW DT DEPARTMENT LOGO

Open to Middle and Upper School

Challenge brief: It’s time for a fresh look at DT. We are searching for talented graphic designers and those with great imagination to design a new logo for the department. The logo needs to reflect out 4 areas: graphics, resistant materials, textiles and electronics.

Final outcomes: Logo submitted as a jpeg and design development (A4 page of concepts leading to the final design). Maximum 3 colours, text: D.T. or Design Technology, imagery

Deadline: Friday 7^th September, 2.45pm

Submission details: Please pass your submission to a DT teacher in class or place in the competition box outside room 70 under the Baker hall. Ensure you write your full name and tutor group.

Awards available: creativity, chosen design

IN THE YEAR 2070​

Open to Middle School, S3 and S4 Students

Challenge brief: The year 2070 is fast approaching. Technology is more advanced than ever before. Natural resources have almost run out. Artificial intelligence might take over.

Write a short story to excite, shock or surprise the reader. Use your imagination to consider the weird and wonderful events of the year 2070. Or perhaps use this as an opportunity to raise awareness of a current issue today and the outcome in the future.

Final outcome: A mini saga or short story. Maximum 350 words… use them wisely! Typed or written entries accepted. Consider layout and design of you page for the exhibition.

Deadline: Friday 7th September 2.45pm

Submission details: Please pass your submission to a DT teacher in class or place in the competition box outside room 70 under the Baker hall. Ensure you write your full name and tutor group.

Awards available: creativity, literacy credit

PRODUCT OF THE FUTURE

Open to Middle School Students

Challenge brief: One of the major challenges for today’s designers is to develop products that meet human needs, while conserving the environment for future generations.

Consider a product that exists which could be redesigned to be more sustainable: use less material, use recyclable materials, last for longer.

Final outcome: A design for a new product with annotations and labels to explain the design. A description on the page to explain the thinking behind the design should also be included.

Deadline: Friday 7th September 2.45pm

Submission details: Please pass your submission to a DT teacher in class or place in the competition box outside room 70 under the Baker hall. Ensure you write your full name and tutor group.

Awards available: innovation, reality of design

BEST INVENTION OF ALL TIME

Open to Middle school

Challenge brief: What is the best invention of all time? Old or new? What is its function? How did it change the way we live? Design a poster or record a short video that highlights the best invention of all time! Your entry should clearly explain which invention you have chosen and your reasons why it is the best invention in history!

Final outcome options:

Poster: A4 size, in colour. Made digitally using a software of your choice.

1 minute video: This can be you explaining your opinions with the use of visual aids, or a stop motion style animation or drawing, edited in a software of your choice.

Eligibility: Open to Middle school and Upper school (years P6-6B), individual entries.

Deadline: Friday 7^th September, 2.45pm

Submission details: Posters to be submitted to room 70 in DT, videos to be emailed as a Google Drive link to rachel.wyncoll@markham.edu.pe Ensure you write your full name and tutor group

Awards available: creativity, persuasive abilities

APP / GAME OF THE FUTURE

Open to Middle and Upper School

Challenge brief: Our phones have become an integral part of our lives. They have reduced the number of products we need to own by their multiple functions. Consider another product to be replaced, a new use that a phone could provide or a new game, and design an app that could do this. You will not need to make the app, simply design a user interface and explain how it would work.

Final outcomes: An A4 page that shows the user interface (imagery shown on the phone’s screen) and a description of the inspiration for the app/game and how it would operate. Please add your name and tutor group to your page.

Eligibility: Middle school students, individual entries.

Deadline: Friday 7^th September, 2.45pm

Submission details: Please pass your submission to a DT teacher in class or place in the competition box outside room 70 under the Baker hall. Ensure you write your full name and tutor group.

Awards available: innovation, ability to make a difference