Year 9 winners (from left) Yasmin Dunning, Emily Hussey, Abigail Morton, Anna Saunders, Grace Barker with Rosanna Joyce (rear left) and Linda Green and their working model.
Students from the Bishop of Winchester Academy have won the Bournemouth Soroptimist club organised STEM Year 9 challenge for local schools. The team, faced with the challenge of using STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) skills to design, research and build a product that would help the poorest people in the world, created a water collecting device that attached to a tree would use captured rainwater and use gravity to filtrate the water for human consumption.
Science teacher Linda Green and learning support assistant Rosanna Joyce say that the team deserved to win the £50 each and £250 for the academy, “We are proud of the girls who had to consider the costs, the environment and practicality of their schemes so worked hard over a few months to create the filtration system.”
The presentation of prizes and certificates was made by the mayor and mayoress of Poole at Bournemouth University.
