| Executive summary: PRELIMINARY ROUND 1 HELD ON 11th MARCH 2017 : Participated by 8 teams – 48 students PRELIMINARY ROUND 2 HELD ON 2nd APRIL 2017 - Participated by 8 teams – 48 students PRELIMINARY ROUND 3 HELD ON 13th MAY 2017 - Participated by 7 teams – 42 students FINAL to be held on 26August 2017 |
The IET Brunei Young Professional Section (YPS) with the support of the main committee organised the IET Faraday Do-It-Yourself Challenge for Schools’ students in Year 9.
The aim of the activity is to give students the opportunity to research, design and make prototype solutions to genuinely tough engineering problems. This is in-line with the IET Brunei vision and mission in promoting the general advancement of science, engineering and technology and to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas on these subjects amongst the general public especially students.
The challenge was based on the IET Faraday Challenge events held at schools in the United Kingdom. Students were given tasks as engineer specialists recruited by a mock company and were asked to design and construct a prototype within a limited time.
The whole process gave the students insight into the roles and responsibilities of an engineering team as they may not only attempted to create their prototypes but had to justify their ideas, costs and implementation plans to the judges (presentation skills). This challenge also encourages the development of students’ problem solving, team working and communication skills.
The final round will be held on August 26th 2017.