Continued from page 27... Prizes and certificates will be sent out in the next few weeks. Prize money was donated by the Shenzhen Jianhui Charity Foundation. I hope that the competition provided a useful and worthwhile experience for those students who took part and that it will thrive and grow in future years.
Online D&T Competition Winners Past & Present: Part 1 By Richard Smith, Head of D&T, Bangkok Patana School
The 2016-17 Online D&T Competition was hosted by The British School Kathmandu and the 2017-18 competition is being hosted by Regents International School Pattaya. Through our carefully tailored curriculum we aim to set high standards and stretch our students giving them every opportunity to exceed beyond their attainment targets at Key Stage 3 and excel at IGCSE and IB. To challenge our most able Design and Technology (D&T) students, we seek to offer curriculum enrichment opportunities throughout the year. The FOBISIA Design and Technology Competition is just one of many that we provide and needless to say our students always produce exceptional work and make us very proud. We would like to congratulate the girls who were involved in last year’s D&T Competition, then in Year 8 and 9. The theme was “A Chair for Alice in Wonderland for the Mad Hatters Tea Party”. The students met at lunch times and worked in two groups. Their work involved conducting research into the Alice in Wonderland film set, looking at styles and aesthetics, generating ideas through sketching and model making and ultimately turning their ideas into reality using CAD/ CAM and CNC machinery. The students documented the entire process on video, which they skilfully edited with accompanying music and then submitted to the competition. We would like to thank The British School Kathmandu for organising the challenge.
THE FOBISIAN: February 2018, Term 2, Issue 26
1st Place – “The Mad Creators” • Nichapatr (Petch) • Natabhorn (Plume Plume) • Wei • Camila 3rd Place – “The Illusionists” • Angwara (Book) • Renee • Khushi A few words from “The Mad Creators”... “Overall I found this activity to be really fun as I got to work with my friends and do something I had never done before. My favourite part of the process was at the beginning, when we were brainstorming and planning ideas for the chair as we had to make sure it fitted with the Alice in Wonderland theme but also be very imaginative to make it look different from a regular chair. We ended up with lots of cool looking ideas. From then on, it was more practical as we had to make a small model of the chair to make sure the final design we chose would work. After finalising the design and measurements, we started working in CAD 2D design to cut out the parts, as well as painting it and joining everything together. All the while, we recorded the
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