Newcastle Discovery Museum
Thursday, 6 July 2017: Schedule
9 – 9.30am Registration and set-up for entrants
Competition entries must be set up by 10:00am
Table allocations will be made on the day of the competition
10am – 1pm Students:
- attend their exhibits while judging teams circulate
- complete peer review on other students' exhibits
- take part in Discovery Trail
Lunch at Discovery Museum Café, using voucher provided
1.00– 1.45pm Speeches and Awards in the Great Hall
Chair: Nick Rossiter, Hexham Rotary, Vocational Team
Welcome by Carolyn Ball, Manager, Discovery Museum
Keynote address: Jonathan Sanderson, Outreach Specialist - Digital & Maker, NUSTEM, Northumbria University
Presentation of prizes by Richard Nelson (President Hexham Rotary) and Ed Dinning (Friends Discovery Museum)
2pm Close
Photographs of the prize winners will take place from 1:45pm; therefore please allow for this when organising travel back to your school/college.
Please note: Competition entrants need to bring their project and a project summary, to be used as part of the judging process. Every project must be accompanied by a prominent display of the student's name, their age class and their project's title. The presentation of the project is important and is considered in the award of marks.
more The YEDT competition, held at the Discovery Museum in July, is organised by Hexham Rotary Club with generous sponsorship by Friends of the Museum and the NUSTEM initiative, Northumbria University.
more The programme for the events on the day
more The YEDT competition, held at the Discovery Museum in July, is organised by Hexham Rotary with generous sponsorship by Friends of the Museum and Northumbria University. The aim is to encourage students at school to take up an engineering or design career.
more The YEDT competition, held at the Discovery Museum in July, is organised by Hexham Rotary with generous sponsorship by Friends of the Museum and Northumbria University. The aim is to encourage students at school to take up an engineering or design career.
back The YEDT competition, held at the Discovery Museum in July, is organised by Hexham Rotary with generous sponsorship by Friends of the Museum and Northumbria University. The aim is to encourage students at school to take up an engineering or design career.