Category: Achievements

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BIEA Winners 2024

By producing billions of clothes every year, the fast fashion industry is releasing waste and chemicals into our world, polluting and driving species to the brink of extinction. 

Children from around the world were invited to enter the competition to design a solution to being both fashionable and sustainable organised by the British International Education association.   

The children had to create a detailed report and pass an interview stage to be invited to the final showcase at the new UCl Marshgate campus.

Amazingly, every team entered from Alpha were invited and they presented their ideas to the judges. Some children had specially flown in from America, China, Azerbaijan and Turkey to present their ideas in the final showcase to the judges and it was lovely to see special guests at the final including the Turkish and China’s ambassador was also in.

Therefore, we were completing taken back when Alpha Preparatory school was called up 5 times during the presentations.

‘Tremendous Taylors’, consisting of Sarvesh, Krish and Darsh, received the Emerging Impact award.

‘Brilliant Bamboozlees’, consisting of Ganesh, Eva and Bilal, received the Emerging Impact award.

‘Efficient Engineers’, consisting of Preyian, Ishan and Ewan, received the Emerging Impact award.

‘Fantastic Eco Trio’, consisting of Emily, Aman and Aran, received the third place award.

Finally, just when we thought it was all over, ‘We Mean Green’, consisting of Tanush, Kian and Leah, received second place award.

What an amazing achievement by the children in Year 6

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Discovery Education’s Top Coder 2023 Winner

This coding challenge competition invited children to unleash their creativity by designing animations, apps and games using Discovery Education Coding – the award-winning resource for primary schools.

5 year old Daaris from Alpha Preparatory School in Harrow, took first prize in the KS1 category of the challenge, after designing a block coding game set in outer space. The judges were impressed by his entry, which showed “great imagination and coding skills!”

Daaris’s prize is a Botley Coding Robot , plus a year’s free subscription to Discovery Education Coding for his school.

Debbie Tipton, teacher at Alpha Preparatory School said,

“Daaris was thrilled to win the prize.  His favourite subject is space and he incorporated his knowledge into the design.  He was also excited for the rest of the school to benefit from his award by having access to Discovery Education Coding for a year.  We are all very proud of Daaris.”

Daaris said,

“I am so excited to have won, I love space and I love computing.  I am looking forward to programming Botley. I can make him do lots of things”

With lots of concepts to explore, Discovery Education Coding helps children to master computer programming in a fun and accessible way, giving them the freedom to create apps and games using their imagination.

Howard Lewis, Discovery Education’s Managing Director UK and International said:

“Congratulations to Daaris, KS1 winner of this year’s Discovery Education Top Coder Competition and to everyone who took part. Coding is a vital skill for the future. It’s great to see so many students using our resources to master it and have fun with computer programming.”

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Alpha Prep Science Team Wins The UK National Finals Quiz

This year, the National Finals was held at The Light, one of London’s  largest auditoriums, situated at Friends House in Fitzrovia in Central London. 

There were 50 teams in the finals representing schools from across the country (some online and some live).

At the live event, 27 teams were finalists and amazingly, Alpha Prep Science Team took first place.

An amazing achievment for the team. Well done!

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Alpha Prep wins 2nd Prize in the BIEA International STEM Competition 2021

This year’s challenge was to create reusable packaging to reduce plastic waste.

The children had 4 tasks to complete during the competition.

Task 1:

Report writing: Competitors will use the Internet and other secondary sources to research, design and write a report on the ‘reusable packaging’ project.

Task 2:

Design: The design round is a paper-based entry, with competitors producing several concept images of their design and to use scientific testing methods to check if there designs would hold a hot liquid.

Task 3:

Presentation and Evaluation: Competitors, either individually or as part of their team, video a presentation summarising their project, including an evaluation about their project successes and challenges

Task 4:

Online Q&A round: Competitors with the highest marks will be notified whether they have been selected for the live Q&A round.  This round will be a remote question and answer session, where the judges will ask the competitor’s questions about the project based on aspects of their report, design and video submissions.

The children found the tasks challenging and difficult but they kept persevering and worked hard to keeping going during this lockdown period.

Well done to this fantastic STEM team.

 

 

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Alpha Prep Wins 2 Awards at the BIEA STEM Youth Innovation Competition 2020

 

This years challenge was to create a robot to help keep dangerous areas clean of plastic pollution.

The children had 4 tasks to complete during the competition.

Task 1:

Report writing: Competitors will use the Internet and other secondary sources to research, design and write a report on the ‘Save our shores through STEM’ project, helping clean up plastic from remote mud banks and waterlines through innovative and creative specifications

Task 2:

Design: The design round is a paper-based entry, with competitors producing several concept images of their vehicle designs, including a cartoon-strip of the vehicle in action.

Task 3:

Presentation and Evaluation: Competitors, either individually or as part of their team, video a presentation summarising their project, including an evaluation about their project successes and challenges

Task 4:

Online Q&A round: Competitors with the highest marks will be notified whether they have been selected for the live Q&A round.  This round will be a remote question and answer session, where the judges will ask the competitors questions about the project based on aspects of their report, design and video submissions.

The children found the tasks challenging and difficult but they kept persevering and worked hard to keeping going during this lockdown period.

During the announcements they won the  Best Report Award and First Runner-Up award. Well done to the Keeping Mudbanks Clean Team.