AIT Schools’ Competition 2024: Recording Oral History
Can you record a piece of history from an adult in your family or community and win book vouchers and books for your school?
At AIT we collect the personal histories of people who have and are doing positive things in the world of technology so other people can learn about the industry and share this information.
These interviews include people such as Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley who empowered a generation of women in technology and Andy Ayim who set up an online music platform for people interested in hip-hop and grime and now provides investment for under-represented groups to fulfil their technological dreams.
The challenge
So, as part of our educational offer we would like to see how young students from Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 can take on this concept and record a piece of history from an adult in their network of family, or organisations they take part in, with the theme: How technology has changed.
They can do this by formulating a set of question and then either recording the answers in written form (maybe include a photo), audio or video recording.
Questions could include:
– What was your first experience of tech?
– What tech device did you use to listen to music or play games on when you were at school?
– What tech device was your favourite when you were growing up and why?
– In what ways do you think technology has changed since you were growing up and how has this affected your life?
An early entry from a year 3 student:
Prizes
We will send £25 book vouchers to the three best KS1 entries and the three most original from KS2. We will also hold a lucky dip with five randomly picked schools receiving a set children-friendly tech books by TechWomen100 award winner, Beverly Clarke for their schools.
How to Enter
Please send your entries and as much detail as you can about the person(s) being interviewed such as their name, age and relationship to the student (and if possible the students’ first names and ages), to education@archivesit.org.uk by Friday 24 May, 2024.
Winners of the AIT Schools’ Oral History competition announced
Digital Photography 2023
About
The digital photography competition was open to Key Stage 1 students, and teachers were asked to follow the resource’s activity information, teachers’ notes and curriculum links, encourage students to complete the tasks and then email the results as entries to AIT’s competition.
The competition’s activity involved learners using digital cameras to capture images, then editing the images in the style of either of two digital artists, Sean Charmatz and Stephen McMennamy.
The Archives of IT (AIT) digital photography competition ran alongside the first of a series of five new lesson plans created in collaboration with The Institution of Engineering and Technology focusing on technology, one of which is photography.
Follow the instructions in the presentation below:
Digital camera prizes
The best entry will win a set of five digital cameras and memory cards for their school, with a runner up winning two digital cameras and a memory card for their school. The competition will be decided by a judging panel made up of AIT trustees.
We have chosen as the prizes the VTech KidiZoom Studio/Digital Camera with Special Effects, (or similar if out of stock).
We will also create a gallery with a selection of the competition entries.
Deadline and sending entries – Friday 19 may
The deadline for the competition was 28 April 2023 but this has now been extended to Friday 19 May. Please email your students’ competition entries (and any questions you may have) to education@archivesit.org.uk clearly stating in the headline: AIT Schools Photography Competition.
Read More about the competition in our news article.
Check out the entries so far here: Digital Photography Competition – Entries
Winners
Read our news story about the winners of the AIT Digital Photography Competition
World Cup competition 2022
Although the competition is closed and the prizes have been awarded – you may still find the resource useful.
You can run the presentation from our site or download the PowerPoint file here: FIFA 2022 Competition
You can also see all the entries here: FIFA 2022 Gallery