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Streets Ahead Design Challenge

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Welcome

Streets Ahead is a STEM design challenge aimed at S1/2 students asking them to redesign their local shopping centre or high street. Encouraging collaboration across subject areas to create a more sustainable, inclusive, and accessible shopping experience for everyone.

About the challenge

The purpose of the challenge is to explore the practical application of skills and help students get a better understanding of how to make their subject choices. This we hope will ensure that our future workforce are creative problem solvers, adaptable to environments and informed in the skills and knowledge they would like to develop further.

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V&A Dundee

Learn more about V&A Dundee and how important people centred design is for the future of the city.

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NCR

Learn more about NCR and how they have adapted to the changing high street.

Resources

These resources are available to guide you through the process; as well as a teachers pack to support your project.

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Resource Pack

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Padlet Resource

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Teachers Pack

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Further Support

We also have an ‘ask the expert’ forum available as well as the Learning team at V&A Dundee, on hand to answer any questions you might have. We will be taking a Design led approach and iterating resources and hosting online discussions and Q&A’s.

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Participants

Schools from all across Scotland have signed up to take part in the Streets Ahead Challenge. See all the schools that have signed up on the map below.

Supported by

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Please note we're closed 25 & 26 December then open daily until 31 December, 10.00 – 17.00.

We'll be closed 1 January but back to our winter opening hours from 10.00 on 2 January.

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