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Green Careers Week: CREST Awards Enterprise Activity!
Green Careers Week is coming! If you’re looking for an engaging project for your learners, why not challenge them to develop their own sustainable business idea?
The Sustainable Solutions CREST Discovery Award can be completed in school during lessons, as an extracurricular activity, or as an enterprise activity. CREST provides teaching guides, kit lists, example timetables, and suggested starter activities to help you run your day.
Sustainable Solutions: The Challenge
Sustainable Solutions is a team-based activity day with the aim of encouraging each team to design and create a sustainable start-up business concept linked to their community.
Their business idea should be focused on providing a product or service that is environmentally friendly, taking into consideration energy efficiency, resource conservation, low waste production, and the use of safe and environmentally-compatible materials.
Students will:
Explore the relationship between industrialisation and sustainability
Research sustainable business
Develop a concept for their own sustainable product or service
CREST Discovery Awards are typically completed by 10-14 year olds, students work collaboratively on a five hour project or challenge in self-managed groups. During the project, they use a CREST Discovery passport to record and reflect on their work. Afterward, students communicate their findings in a group presentation.
Find out more about CREST Discovery Awards.
CREST Webinars: Getting Started with CREST & CREST Funding
As North West Regional CREST Support Organisation, All About STEM promote CREST Awards across the region and point schools & clubs to the support they need to run this amazing scheme. CREST Awards encourage students to work like scientists, researchers, engineers and designers to investigate and explore their own project ideas.
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