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Innovation Challenge - Teacher Guidance

Innovation is all around us; every day businesses are set up and new products or services created. Companies House states that around 500,000 new businesses are registered every year in the UK, with an average of 30,000 new products launched. 

At the bottom of this page, you can download the Innovation Challenge Teacher Toolkit, which has all of the resources that you need in order to set up and run this challenge with your students. We have also created a presentation to assist teachers with promoting the Innovation Challenge internally within your schools.  

Introduction to the challenge
The training video below helps teachers get started with the Innovation Challenge. We include information on how to support your students and how to access your Innovation Ambassador. 

 

Introduction to the Teacher Toolkit
The video below provides additional guidance on how to use the Toolkit to support your sessions in school .

 

Please see our FAQ video for further support.

Pre-challenge surveys
We could be grateful if before starting the challenge, both the lead teacher and the students could complete a pre-challenge survey using the links below to help us capture the key information during this second phase of our pilot. By collecting information at the start of the challenge, we will be able to accurately monitor the success of each different Innovation Challenge model.

Link for the Teacher Survey https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90557381/Innovation-Challenge-2023-teacher-survey-pre-challenge

QR code for the teacher survey pre-challenge

Link for the Student Survey https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90556868/Innovation-Challenge-2023-participant-survey-pre-challenge

QR code for the student survey pre-challenge

Post-challenge surveys
Thank you to everyone for getting involved. Now you are all complete, please follow the links below to feed back on your experience of working with the Innovation Challenge resources. Well done to those teams in the North East who presented at our final, you all did fantastically!

Link for the Teacher Survey https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90576612/Innovation-Challenge-2023-teacher...

QR code for the teacher survey post-challenge

Link for the Student Survey https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90576591/Innovation-Challenge-2023-partici...

QR code for the student survey post-challenge

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