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Go4SET Regional Finals – An Assessor’s Experience
March 26, 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications 2 Comments | Category Marine Directorate general, Marine Directorate Science, Marine News from other Organisations
By John Dunn
On the 11th of February I acted as an assessor in the regional finals of the Go4SET competition at Elphinstone Hall, King’s College, Aberdeen University. Teams from all over Grampian had been working away for ten weeks on a series of projects, and our role as assessors was to choose a suitable winner to go on to the national finals.
Go4SET links teams of usually S2 pupils with companies or Universities to tackle a project using STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). This helps to raise pupil’s awareness and highlights the potential exciting future careers and opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
My fellow assessors were the CEO of a major recycling company, an Aberdeenshire councillor, the CEO of an oil field service company, an Aberdeen city education officer, and a professor from the University, and me!
We had teams of pupils from Fraserburgh (who actually won the event), Torry, Harlaw, Kemnay, St Machar, and Northfield.
Each team had prepared a report, and a display or model of their project. They made a presentation to the assessors and we had to question them on the various aspects of the project and their understanding of what they had done and the ideas and results they obtained. Assessing the projects and the presentations was challenging as the pupils demonstrated a high level of involvement and skill in what they had done, but eventually we arrived at a consensus and the pupils were awarded with their prizes and certificates of achievement.
All in all an excellent event which exposes pupils to STEM and hopefully encourages some of them to follow through these subjects in higher education.
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Dear Caroline,
Yes I dont see why not
regards
John Dunn
Hello John glad to hear that you enjoyed being an assessor an would we be able to use this as an article on our website