Fix-It! EDGE Problem-Solving Challenge
Children across the school have been putting their creativity and problem-solving skills to the test in our latest Fix-It! EDGE Challenge. The brief was simple: spot an everyday problem and come up with an imaginative way to fix it – and our pupils certainly rose to the challenge!
Entries ranged from practical inventions to clever digital ideas. Some highlights included an app to reduce food waste by suggesting recipes using leftover ingredients, a ‘rent-an-umbrella’ service called UnderCover and an app to help direct children directly to their parent at pick-up time. Others tackled everyday issues such as helping classes to remember each other’s birthdays, librarians chasing overdue books, watering the class plants and children struggling to remember homework, passwords and club schedules. One idea even solved the age-old dilemma of choosing which teddy to sleep with!
Pupils expressed their ideas through posters, drawings, videos, 3D designs and even working models, showcasing an incredible variety of creativity and thought. Each entry demonstrated ingenuity, empathy, and a real sense of purpose – finding small but meaningful ways to make life easier, fairer, or more fun.
Although this was an optional challenge, the response has been really impressive, and we will be celebrating all entries in an upcoming assembly (as well as looking into how we might work on some of them to develop them further). Well done to everyone who took part for their brilliant ideas and inventive thinking – you truly showed what it means to see it, think it, fix it!
Innovation begins (or
at least continues) at home!
An honourable mention also goes to Cicero, who took on his own fix-it challenge at home over Half Term, repairing devices around the house.
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