Competition time
To celebrate Earth Day and our Sustainable Travel Assembly on Monday 22 April, we’ve teamed up with children’s book publisher, QuestFriendz, to run a competition for children to use their STEM skills to design their very own sustainable vehicle.
Open to individual children aged 4 to 11 years old and primary schools, the winner will receive a copy of SuperQuesters: The Case of the Angry Sea as well as Katie and Tex soft toys!
The winner’s school will receive a set of the SuperQuesters series for their school library as well as a digital copy of SuperQuesters: The Case of the Angry Sea.
The challenge
The SuperQuesters – Lillicorn, Bea Bumble and Leo Zoom – and their tech loving friends Katie and Tex would like to invent a sustainable vehicle to make travel better for the environment. But they’re struggling to come up with ideas by themselves.
They think the best people to help them are children – like them - who will be the ones travelling in the future.
Tex: “Can you help us with ideas for a new way to travel which doesn’t harm the environment?
Lillicorn: “It could be a new type of car, plane, boat, bus, drone, skateboard, scooter, train, tram or something else!”
Bea Bumble: “To help us build it, please can you label your designs to tell us how it works.”
Katie: “Remember to think about what it is made from, what fuel or power it uses and how it helps us get from one place to another.”
Leo Zoom: “We can’t wait to see what you come up with! And as a thank-you for helping us out, our favourite design will win a copy of the book, SuperQuesters: The Case of the Angry Sea and your own cuddly Katie and Tex. Plus a set of SuperQuesters books for your school library.”
How it works
Please read the terms and conditions below as by entering you agree to these.
To take part, please download the submission sheet for the child to design their sustainable vehicle for the future on here.
The competition is open to all children aged 4 to 11 years old in the UK and Ireland and must be submitted by an adult over the age of 18 years old.
The design can be in any format - whether that’s a computer-generated image or hand drawn.
At the end of the competition, we'd love to be able to share the children's creative ideas with our audiences via our social media channels, in print and online. By submitting an entry, you are deemed to have given permission for it to be shared by Tech She Can and QuestFriendz in this way.
For inspiration, you might find it useful to show your students or children Animated lessons - TechSheCan.
Please submit your children’s designs using the form here by 23.59 on Friday 10 May 2024.
Designs will be judged by Tech She Can and QuestFriendz, with the winner announced on both our social media channels on Wednesday 5 June 2024.
About the characters
Tex is a robotic dog who features in our series of Tech We Can animated lessons for primary-age children. The animations are designed to educate and excite children about technology, and the people who develop it, from an early age. Each animation covers a different area of tech and gives children a simplified understanding of how it works and how it’s used.
The SuperQuesters are three friends – Leo, Lilli and Bea – who are secret STEM superheroes and feature in the QuestFriendz SuperQuesters book series aimed at children aged 4-9. QuestFriendz aim to spark children's interest in STEM from a young age through interactive storytelling. You can meet the SuperQuesters characters here. Meet the Characters | QuestFriendz
Terms and conditions
Introduction
By participating in the competition you are agreeing to these competition terms and conditions. The competition is being run by Tech She Can and QuestFriendz.
Eligibility to Enter
The competition is open to UK and Republic of Ireland residents. Those who work for Tech She Can and QuestFriendz are excluded from the competition.
Entrants must be aged 18 or over and submit entries on behalf of a child aged 12 years and younger who is in full-time education in the UK or Ireland (including home-schooling, in which case the child must be legally resident in as well as home-schooled in the UK or Ireland).
Only one entry per child will be accepted. Entrants may not win more than one prize.
Entries must be original works, and not under copyright to any other person or organisation in the UK or Ireland. Entries found to be in breach of these terms will be considered to be forfeit and removed from the judging process; the Promoter reserves the right to withdraw allocation of any prizes should an entry be found to be forfeit after this process has been completed, and a new
winner will be selected from eligible entries.
By entering the competition, you confirm that you are eligible to do so and that you are eligible to receive any prizes that may be awarded to you.
Data Protection and Publicity
Tech She Can
By submitting your entry via email, you acknowledge that we may send you Tech She Can related insights that we consider relevant to you. Please see our privacy policy for details of why and how we use personal data and your rights (including your right to object and to stop receiving marketing communications from us). To stop receiving marketing communications from us, please click on the unsubscribe link in the relevant email received from us or send an email to info@techshecan.org.
QuestFriendz
By submitting your entry via email, you acknowledge that QuestFriendz may send you newsletters and promotional offers that they consider relevant to you. Please see their privacy policy for details of why and how they use personal data and your rights (including your right to object and to stop receiving marketing communications from them). To stop receiving marketing communications from QuestFriendz, please click on the unsubscribe link in the relevant email received from them or send an email to hello@questfriendz.com.
At the end of the competition, we'd love to be able to share the children's creative ideas with our audiences via our social media channels, in print and online. By submitting an entry, you are deemed to have given permission for it to be shared by Tech She Can and QuestFriendz in this way.
There is a limit of one entry per person and the competition is completely free to enter.
The competition will close at 23.59 on Friday 10 May 2024. No entries will be accepted after this date.
The Prize
One child will win:
- SuperQuesters: The Case of the Angry Sea (RRP £7.99)
- Tex cuddly toy
- Katie cuddly toy
Their school will win:
- 1 x SuperQuesters: The Case of the Stolen Sun (RRP £7.99)
- 1 x SuperQuesters: The Case of the Missing Memory (RRP £7.99)
- 1 x SuperQuesters: The Case of the Great Energy Robbery (RRP £7.99)
- 1 x SuperQuesters: The Case of the Angry Sea (RRP £7.99)
- 1 x a digital copy SuperQuesters: The Case of the Angry Sea
The prize is non-transferable and non-exchangeable, and no cash alternatives will be provided.
Please note the school element of the prize will not apply in the event of a winning entry by a home-schooled student, who will receive the pupil prize only.
We reserve the right to substitute prizes of equal or greater value if circumstances beyond our control require doing so.
Tech She Can and QuestFriendz decision on any aspect of the competition is final and binding, and no correspondence will be entered into about it.
Winner Announcement
The winner will be chosen by a panel of judges and notified via the email address provided by Tuesday 21 May 2024.
QuestFriendz will make two attempts to contact the winner via email.
If the winner does not respond to the emails informing them of their win within 14 days of the second email, they forfeit their right to the prize, and QuestFriendz reserves the right to select and notify a new winner.
Delivery of the Prize
The winner will allow 14 days for the prize to be delivered, otherwise alternative collection or delivery arrangements can be made through mutual agreement.
You agree that any personal information that you provide when entering the competition will be used by Tech She Can and QuestFriendz for the purposes of administering the competition and for the other purposes as specified in our Privacy Policy.
All entrants may request information on the winning participant by emailing info@techshecan.org.
Limitation of Liability
Tech She Can and QuestFriendz accepts no liability for any damage, loss, injury, or disappointment suffered by any entrants as a result of participating in the competition, being selected for the prize or linked to usage of part of the prize.
General
Tech She Can and QuestFriendz reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to cancel the competition or amend these terms and conditions.
