VIRTUAL ADA LOVELACE EVENT 2020!

 Virtual Ada Lovelace Day 2020

Year 8 girls loved being involved in the Virtual Ada Lovelace Day 2020!

The activities on the day included completing challenges set by local scientists and a Q&A session with a scientist to find out more about their careers. Our Year 8 students were to work as inventors and had to present their ideas back to the group of scientists at the end of the event.

Our students had to invent something to make life easier. ​Their final presentation had to demonstrate they had produced something​ which: 

● shows an invention and how it works (a patent attorney would call this the     “specification”)
● why it is different to what already exists (a patent attorney would say this is the “novelty” of your invention), 
● why it is “clever” and tell us what problem it solves (a patent attorney would  say this is the “inventive step” of your invention)

Our students were full of amazing ideas for possible inventions and teams presented back on some of their favourite ideas including an automated solar charged litter picked, an intelligent wardrobe, intelligent glasses which monitor health and another pair that identify possible areas of concern – linked to current news and a wallpaper that could be programmed to change colour and display images.