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Global Washout Day: A Challenge to Inspire Change, On the 19th of November, members of The Design & Technology Association took part in Global Washout Day, a worldwide initiative spearheaded by The Washing Machine Project. This impactful campaign aims to shine a light on the often-overlooked challenges faced by millions of people who must hand wash their clothes with limited access to water. For billions around the world, handwashing clothes is more than a simple household task—it is a physically demanding and time-consuming necessity. Many are forced to walk miles to collect water...
Learning with Autodesk TinkerCAD, Astrid Øie, representing Autodesk, welcomed teachers to an online webinar hosted by the Design & Technology Association to explore the diverse features of TinkerCAD. Joining her was Sonya Horton from CREATE Education, a key Autodesk Learning Partner and Blueprint 1000 member. The session aimed to showcase TinkerCAD's capabilities in 3D design, electronics, coding, and its application in education. TinkerCAD Overview TinkerCAD offers a user-friendly workplane for 3D modelling, allowing users to create intricate designs through drag-and-drop functionality. With the shapes library and advanced tools like CodeBlocks, users can easily...
Brad Harris, “Brad is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer who has acquired a wealth of engineering knowledge, skills and understanding over more than 40 years of educational, training, research and industrial experience across the system, product, asset and project lifecycles in the automotive, defence, maritime, aerospace, oil & gas and utilities sectors. For the majority of the last ten years Brad has worked as an independent consultant, including four and a half years of assignments on the programme that is creating one of the most complex products on earth. His clients included a number...
Tackle Real-World Issues in V&A Innovate Challenge, What do a junior bake-off judge, a one show presenter and a creative technologist have in common? They’re all judges in this year’s V&A Innovate Challenge! The V&A Innovate Challenge is an annual design competition hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum, is inspiring young students across the UK to channel their creativity into addressing critical social and environmental issues. Aimed at secondary school pupils aged 11-14, the challenge encourages young people to reimagine solutions for real-world problems, promoting critical thinking and innovative approaches in...
Paul Calver, Profile: Paul Calver BSc(Hons), MBA, FRAeS Paul started his career designing spacecraft control systems for BAE Systems prior to moving to Cobham Plc as a project manager. He has held executive and board level positions, including managing director of UK and USA companies, in leading manufacturing and technology driven companies within the aerospace, marine and renewable energy sectors. In 2000, Paul focused on supporting new technology companies and startups by taking a role as CEO of a novel fuel cell technology company, Chairman and founding shareholder of a Chinese manufacturing...
Chair of ELS, Iolo Jones, Podcast brought to you by the Design and Technology Association in partnership with the Edge Foundation. Listen now! Iolo Jones is chair of ELS, a company that describes itself as the expert in "experience learning". The company uses the latest technologies in XR, VR and AR to measure learners as they are experiencing learning, enabling better metrics and better learning outcomes. Iolo has founded a number of companies, including Sutton Jones Multimedia, leading system integrator Interactive 1, online video pioneer Narrowstep, and was most recently Chair of rights management cloud specialists,...
Founder of NoTosh, Ewan McIntosh, We are delighted and privileged to be able to talk with Ewan McIntosh in this Episode of Designed for Life, the podcast brought to you by the Design and Technology Association with the support of our friends and sponsors at The Edge Foundation and PTC Onshape. Listen hereEwan has built a reputation leading projects around the world for clients in education and industry, and is internationally renowned as a pioneer of design thinking for learning in the classroom. Ewan is the passionate and energising tour de force behind NoTosh a company...
Skills for Industry - Severn Trent, Skills for Industry – Severn Trent First published 2017Ages 11-14 The Skills for Industry programme provides an opportunity to link secondary schools with a local industry partner to help Design and Technology teachers to develop and teach the industry-relevant knowledge and skills needed by the industry partner. The PowerPoint and associated Excel and Word files are a record of the project that took place in 2017 but also provide materials to adapt for use in your school. This project has a scheme over...
Secondary Core Level Health & Safety (SCHS) - Initial Training Course (GS), This course will familiarise you with the D&T Association CORE Level Training Standards covering risk assessment and enable you to complete an individual D&T H&S portfolio for accreditation through completion of 10 areas. The course is suitable for both teachers and technicians, working in all material areas of the subject. The course will extend and update your knowledge and understanding of health and safety and will have a range of activities covering: Core standards Environmental issues ...
Secondary Core Level Health & Safety (SCHS) - Initial Training (JG), This course will familiarise you with the D&T Association CORE Level Training Standards covering risk assessment and enable you to complete an individual D&T H&S portfolio for accreditation through completion of 10 areas. The course is suitable for both teachers and technicians, working in all material areas of the subject. The course will extend and update your knowledge and understanding of health and safety and will have a range of activities covering: Core standards Environmental issues Risk...
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