Year 8 students across the region developed design solutions to reduce the carbon footprints of their school.
Check out our challenge guide for useful tips and important dates for your diary.
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Eco Design Challenge Rules
The Eco Design Challenge is a competition for Year 8 students or equivalent in the North East of England.
The Eco Design Challenge has been conceived to encourage Year 8 students to think about design and sustainability.
Year 8 students must enter the challenge with the support and guidance of a teacher from their school.
A teacher must register their school by 31 December 2006 to participate.
Once registered the school can access and use the teaching and learning materials developed for the challenge from the Dott 07 website.
If the school decides not to complete the challenge whilst registered Dott 07 would ask they inform them of the decision.
Short listing of schools that takes place in March 2007 will be judged by independent individuals from invited organisations, the same individuals will also judge the final submissions in July 2007. Where the same individuals are not available suitable replacements will be recruited.
Dott 07 will always have the final decision for short listing.
Where designers and domain experts are invited into schools to assist with student’s work they are the sole responsibility of the school concerned and Dott 07 will carry no liability for their health and safety whilst on site at the school.
It is advised that designers and domain experts always work alongside a teacher and students and not in isolation with a student or groups of students.
Dott 07 retains the right to amend or change the rules of the challenge at any point.
Important dates:
26 September 2006
Registration for challenge starts.
6 - 11 November 2006
Teachers workshops held at venues across the region to explain the challenge in more detail.
31 December 2006
Registration for Challenge closes.
8 January 2007
The challenge starts, and the students begin to source the information for the foot printing tool made available by Dott 07 and then create their school footprint. They then use the information to stimulate new ideas to change an aspect of their school and develop a design brief for those ideas.
1 March 2007
Entries submitted to Dott 07. Design Briefs and Footprint data communicated in and innovative and informative way. All submissions must be in the form of a hard copy version and digital version preferably as a PDF.
26 March 2007
Up to 50 briefs will be shortlisted and the schools invited to develop their design briefs.
April - June 2007
Where appropriate and possible designers and domain experts will be selected to visit schools and help develop the short listed ideas. Dott 07 cannot guarantee that every school will be visited by designers but will endeavor to match as many schools with designers as possible.
July 2007
Final submissions of projects. Submissions may include models / prototypes of a manageable size i.e. can be handled easily by one person and should be in the form of a hard copy and also digital copy preferably as a PDF. Submissions here will be used as content for the Dott 07 festival in October 2007. Any submission will be considered as approved by the school as festival material.
Prizes will be awarded on quality of innovation design and implementation. This will include teamwork, resourcefulness and ambition.
Prizes and prize categories are selected and chosen by Dott 07 and will be announced in early 2007.
Prizes must be taken as stated and cannot be deferred. There will be no cash alternatives.
October 2007 winners will be announced and prizes awarded at the Dott 07 Festival in October 2007. Venue to be confirmed.
Copyright of all materials created and supplied by Dott 07 as part of the Eco Design Challenge remains the property of Dott 07. Permission for use of the materials in a school for educational purposes is granted. For any other instances please contact Dott 07.
Dott reserve the right to cancel the challenge at any stage, if deemed necessary in their opinion, and if circumstances arise outside of their control.
Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them when entering. This agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales.
Dott will only ever use personal details for the purposes of administering the challenge, and will not publish them or provide them to anyone without your permission. If you would like to know more about the Dott's privacy policy, please see privacy policy.
Dott’s decision is final in every situation including any not covered above.
The Eco Design Challenge has been conceived to encourage Year 8 students to think about design and sustainability.
Year 8 students must enter the challenge with the support and guidance of a teacher from their school.
A teacher must register their school by 31 December 2006 to participate.
Once registered the school can access and use the teaching and learning materials developed for the challenge from the Dott 07 website.
If the school decides not to complete the challenge whilst registered Dott 07 would ask they inform them of the decision.
Short listing of schools that takes place in March 2007 will be judged by independent individuals from invited organisations, the same individuals will also judge the final submissions in July 2007. Where the same individuals are not available suitable replacements will be recruited.
Dott 07 will always have the final decision for short listing.
Where designers and domain experts are invited into schools to assist with student’s work they are the sole responsibility of the school concerned and Dott 07 will carry no liability for their health and safety whilst on site at the school.
It is advised that designers and domain experts always work alongside a teacher and students and not in isolation with a student or groups of students.
Dott 07 retains the right to amend or change the rules of the challenge at any point.
Important dates:
26 September 2006
Registration for challenge starts.
6 - 11 November 2006
Teachers workshops held at venues across the region to explain the challenge in more detail.
31 December 2006
Registration for Challenge closes.
8 January 2007
The challenge starts, and the students begin to source the information for the foot printing tool made available by Dott 07 and then create their school footprint. They then use the information to stimulate new ideas to change an aspect of their school and develop a design brief for those ideas.
1 March 2007
Entries submitted to Dott 07. Design Briefs and Footprint data communicated in and innovative and informative way. All submissions must be in the form of a hard copy version and digital version preferably as a PDF.
26 March 2007
Up to 50 briefs will be shortlisted and the schools invited to develop their design briefs.
April - June 2007
Where appropriate and possible designers and domain experts will be selected to visit schools and help develop the short listed ideas. Dott 07 cannot guarantee that every school will be visited by designers but will endeavor to match as many schools with designers as possible.
July 2007
Final submissions of projects. Submissions may include models / prototypes of a manageable size i.e. can be handled easily by one person and should be in the form of a hard copy and also digital copy preferably as a PDF. Submissions here will be used as content for the Dott 07 festival in October 2007. Any submission will be considered as approved by the school as festival material.
Prizes will be awarded on quality of innovation design and implementation. This will include teamwork, resourcefulness and ambition.
Prizes and prize categories are selected and chosen by Dott 07 and will be announced in early 2007.
Prizes must be taken as stated and cannot be deferred. There will be no cash alternatives.
October 2007 winners will be announced and prizes awarded at the Dott 07 Festival in October 2007. Venue to be confirmed.
Copyright of all materials created and supplied by Dott 07 as part of the Eco Design Challenge remains the property of Dott 07. Permission for use of the materials in a school for educational purposes is granted. For any other instances please contact Dott 07.
Dott reserve the right to cancel the challenge at any stage, if deemed necessary in their opinion, and if circumstances arise outside of their control.
Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them when entering. This agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales.
Dott will only ever use personal details for the purposes of administering the challenge, and will not publish them or provide them to anyone without your permission. If you would like to know more about the Dott's privacy policy, please see privacy policy.
Dott’s decision is final in every situation including any not covered above.
