STEAM Farmvention competition

During half term you might like to have some family fun taking part in the national Farmvention competition.

Farmvention is all about coming up with innovative ideas to help farmers tackle the problems they encounter caused by climate change.

There are two challenges:

What is the best material for a polytunnel?

What is the best shape for a drone?

Girls can take part in both activities or just one of them if they would like to enter. The polytunnel activity is ideal for younger girls, and the drone activity is more suitable for older girls, but both have lots of scope for family fun!

Once pupils have carried out their investigation they can film a Flipgrid video (no more than 1 minute) and post it, or email in or bring in photographs, videos, drawings, booklets or labelled diagrams to Mrs Farrer or Mrs Bond.

Maybe you will test polytunnel materials and make a model?

Maybe you will film a slo mo video of your drone shape test and draw a labelled diagram of a drone of the future?

The choice is yours!

More information is available for pupils on Flipgrid. For the drones activity look here, and the polytunnel activity look here. Pupils and parents will also find lots of ideas and tips on the Science Firefly pages.

Have lots of family fun with Farmvention over half term! The closing date to get your entries into Mrs Farrer or Mrs Bond is 6th November. We will then be carrying out other Farmvention activities during the year and sending in all of our work to the national competition.