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Head of Engineering and D&T Teacher at St Birinus School, Mario de Freitas, Around three years ago the Design and Technology Association recognised a problem which was expressed by many teachers. Many D&T teachers had entered the profession through the traditional route, school-university-school and as such had no experience of working in business or industry that could inform their teaching. We tried a few trials with teacher placements into industry and instantly saw that there was gold dust within this work as both the teacher and the industry host came back with glowing accounts of what...
Production Engineer, Aerospace, Ben , Watch Ben's video here Ben is a manufacturing engineer working at JJ Churchill where he is part of a team developing aircraft parts. He did design and technology at school, then became an apprentice and completed his HNC. He moved from the shop floor to the design office where he uses design drawings to help develop processes for developing new parts. He finds it satisfying seeing the final product as an outcome of the work that he has helped develop, and finds the role varied, changing and interesting. Play video.
Sustainability Series - Bamboo Bicycle Club and Bradfield Design bring sustainability and creativity into the classroom, Teachers looking to inspire students with hands-on learning, sustainable design and innovation can take inspiration from the collaboration between Bamboo Bicycle Club and Bradfield Design. The project, called ‘Beyond Bradfield’, blends sustainability, design aesthetics and STEM principles in a workshop that takes design and technology learning far beyond traditional bicycle building. Led by Nick Mills, Head of Design at Bradfield College, alongside James Marr, founder of Bamboo Bicycle Club, the workshop gives students the chance to design and build a...
Designer and Technologist, Jude Pullen, Podcast brought to you by the Design and Technology Association in partnership with the Edge Foundation. Listen Now. Winner of the 2020 Alastair Graham-Bryce "Imagineering" Award (Institution of Mechanical Engineers), Jude is a Product Design Engineer with an unparalleled appetite to investigate each subject matter that crosses his path. With a passion for bridging seemingly disparate disciplines, he is fascinated by fresh design challenges, be they human, mechanical or virtual. Exceptionally skilled at creating physical prototypes, he uses these models to explore...
Moving pictures, Year 1 Age 5-6 years Fully updated 2021 Moving pictures are popular with children and by making simple sliders and levers children will gain an understanding of the mechanisms that make things move. This encourages children to recognise and learn about different types of movement through investigating mechanisms in everyday objects and designing and making a moving model to illustrate a story or as a card or display. Children develop their designing skills through trying out ideas with materials to make a mock...
Design Careers Explored in Collaborative Webinar by Seymourpowell and the V&A, Aspiring designers, students, teachers and design enthusiasts gathered virtually for an enlightening webinar hosted by Seymourpowell in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). The event provided valuable insights into diverse career paths in design and the multifaceted nature of the industry, drawing from the personal journeys and professional experiences of three designers from Seymourpowell: Oliver Winter, a Senior Design Strategist; Eunbin Kim, a Creative Technologist; and Amelia Wong, a Product Designer. Personal Journeys and Professional Insights The session...
Headteacher, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, David Anderson MA, David studied Design and Technology at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. After gaining his first degree in 1987, he joined the first cohort of MA students, completing this in 1991. After starting his teaching career in Orpington, he became a Head of Department after two years and a Head of Faculty, in his second school in Tonbridge, after 5 years. He became Deputy Headteacher of Cranbrook School in 2002 and was appointed Headteacher at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School (Faversham) in 2008. He has also acted as
Materials Engineer at McLaren Automotive, Ella Podmore, Podcast brought to you by The Design and Technology Association in partnership with The Edge Foundation. Listen now. Ella Podmore is still young but has already crammed an awful lot of professional experience into her short career. In this podcast, we track her journey from school to her current role as Materials Engineer at McLaren Automotive, a position that she convinced McLaren, needed to be created. Ella is involved in all material investigations, from first drawings through to the final product, Ella has worked on the McLaren 765LT, the...
Assistant Head at Beech Hill School, Gill Fitzpatrick, In this episode, we follow Gill's journey from church school, where her dad was the local vicar and knew 'everyone', through to training as a structural engineer, a job that Gill loved and thought she would work in for the rest of her working life. Listen here As a young graduate engineer with a degree in applied geology and engineering, Gill took the first tentative steps into the adult world, testing, monitoring and evaluating the structural integrity of concrete structures and piled...
TinkerCAD Introduction, Introduction to TinkercadPowerpoint This tutorial looks at the interface, tools and basic features of Tinkercad. It is an ideal introduction to the use of Tinkercad in the classroom which will provide the knowledge necessary to work with the other Tinkercad tutorials available from the Design and Technology Association
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