Bryn Celynnog pupils full of bright ideas

A STEM activity week at Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive School gave everyone in Year 8 a chance to get thoroughly hands-on with EESW's Energy Quest, Jaguar 2D and Wind Turbine challenges.

While half of Year 8 worked with EESW's activity deliverer team, the rest of the pupils were with teachers racking their brains for innovative solutions to global energy demands as part of ‘The Bright Ideas Challenge' – a nationwide KS3 competition which challenges pupils to think outside the box and consider how the world's energy might be generated in cities of the future. Pupils would then swap over, meaning nobody missed out on any of the activities.

STEM week culminated in a ‘Big Bang @ Bryn Celynnog' – a huge show-and-tell style exhibition in the school gym giving pupils the opportunity to explain the week's activities and display their work to visiting parents, governors and industry professionals.

Laura Glennon, head of skills at Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive School said: “The sessions delivered by EESW staff during the week were engaging, inspiring and enjoyable for the pupils, who were then able to apply these experiences when formulating their own energy solutions for the Bright Ideas Challenge. The fantastic standard of work pupils produced, as well as the confidence and understanding with which they explained them was testament to the quality of the week's activities.

“Following the huge success of our first STEM week, we are planning on making it an annual event and we hope to continue our work with EESW in future years.”