At Google, we like to reflect the ever-changing world of our users through the logo designs on our homepage. These ‘doodles’ celebrate different people, events or special dates and are designed by our original Doodler, 30-year-old Dennis Hwang.
For the fourth year, we’re asking young people aged 5–16 from across the UK to design their own doodle. This year’s theme is ‘My Hero’. We’d love to see the figures young people look up to represented in their doodles, whether family, friends, people in the community, or world figures. We’re interested in the people considered heroes for the 21st century and how entrants represent them using images.
The best doodles will be voted on by the public, and one winner will be shown on the Google homepage for a day, to be viewed by millions of people. The winner will also receive a trip to California for themselves and their family.
Previous winners: 2008: My Community by Daniel Thorne,
“This was the final section of our year 8 structures topic. I was on the winning team and our bridge was amazing. It was made with glue and straws and seemed to be outstanding in every way. It held 10800g. WOW! I think this bridge is just immaculate.”
Yacapaca is a free e-learning platform designed for educators to create, share, set, mark and analyse assessments.
It is not a VLE, LMS or CMS, but a pure assessment tool. It has a significant user base with 476,225 registered members (as of Aug 24, 2007). Yacapaca is a web service, not an installable product.
Yacapaca is designed to help educators create online assessments in a variety of formats with as much automation as possible of ‘drudge’ tasks such as marking and collating responses.
It is the intention of the technology department to pilot this form of testing in th esummer of 2009.
Have a look the video of a computered controlled buggy going around a given track. This is only one of 5 videos. If you want to view some more look below.
Posted on September 24, 2008 by clounaghtechnology
The Independent-Bosch Technology Horizons Award
If you are aged between 14 and 24 and can write an essay, you could win up to £1,000 by answering the question
‘How can technology and engineering provide innovative solutions for today’s global challenges?
The prize for the winning essay in the 19-24 age category is £1,000, and in the 14-18 age category the winner will receive £700. There are also cash prizes for those students whose essays are ‘Highly Commended’.
The Independent-Bosch Technology Horizons Award is now in its third successful year. It is run by three partners: The Independent, Bosch and the Royal Academy of Engineering. This year we are encouraging students to think globally about the way technology and engineering is at the forefront of change in different countries.
Winning students will be invited to attend an awards ceremony in July, and everyone who enters the competition receives a personalised certificate.
Entries can be submitted online or by post.
PRIZES
14-18 age category (500 word article)
1st prize: The winning article will be awarded £700 and will be printed in the education section of The Independent
The technology and design department within the school has a new building; it consists of 2 manufacturing rooms with adjacent planning rooms and one systems room.
The new build is attached to the rest of the school by a corridor, when the building was first opened in 2003 these walls were blank and needed some decoration. It was decided to decorate the walls with as many interactive wall displays as possible the theme of “Technological inventions through time” was chosen. A total of 12 interactive wall displays were made depicting some major historical inventions starting from the creation of the world itself. As well as these historical displays there are a number of displays demonstrating technological principles and processes.
Please have a look at some of the displays by clicking on the link below
2008: My Community by Daniel Thorne,
2007: My Future by Claire Rammelkamp,
2006: My Britain by Katherine Chisnall
