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🌟 WOW, what a day at the Future Skills Centre Exeter for our Ted Wragg Innovation Competition in partnership with Exeter College and The Green Skills Advisory Panel! 🌟

Over 70 students from across our family of schools came together to showcase their creativity, innovation and problem-solving skills. Teams pitched their ideas to our expert judging panel before taking part in inspiring breakout sessions, including LEGO Serious Play and Minecraft Education.

Congratulations to our competition winners:
🏆 Winner Primary: Exwick Heights Primary School
🏆 Winner Secondary: Marine Academy Secondary

Highly Commended Award Winners:
👏 Highly Commended – Teamwork: Whipton Barton Federation
👏 Highly Commended – Impact: Queen Elizabeth's School
👏 Highly Commended – Innovation: Lipson Co-operative Academy
👏 Highly Commended – Creativity: Matford Brook Academy
👏 Highly Commended – Final presentation: Marine Academy Primary
👏 Highly Commended – Primary: Marine Academy Primary
👏 Highly Commended – Secondary: West Exe School

A huge congratulations to every student who took part. Your ideas, teamwork, confidence and passion for creating a better future were truly inspiring.

Thank you to our sponsor, Building Greater Exeter, and to our fantastic panel of judges.

🌍💡 The future is in safe hands. Thank you to everyone who helped make the day such a success!

St James Exeter | Isca Academy | Cranbrook Education Campus | St Luke's C of E School Exeter | Honiton Community College | Sidmouth College | Exmouth Community College
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🚀🧱 Designing the future - on Earth and beyond

Students are getting hands-on with two exciting challenge sessions today at the Innovation Competition, using creativity, collaboration and problem-solving to tackle real-world (and out-of-this-world!) challenges.

🌍 LEGO® Serious Play
Led by Alexis and Joanna from Make Happy, students are building models that represent their visions for sustainable towns and schools of the future. Through storytelling, systems thinking and hands-on creativity, they're exploring how great ideas can shape the world around us. 💡🧠

🚀 Minecraft Education: Mission to Mars
Led by Miss Horrell from West Exe School, students are stepping into the role of astronauts as they take on the challenge of colonising Mars. Working with limited resources and real Martian terrain, teams must plan and build sustainable settlements for future generations. With NASA and other organisations already planning future missions to the Red Planet, today's students could be among tomorrow's Mars pioneers. 🎮🔴

A fantastic showcase of innovation, teamwork and imagination in action, helping students develop the skills they'll need to shape the future.



Whipton Barton Federation | West Exe School | St James Exeter | Isca Academy | Marine Academy Primary | Cranbrook Education Campus | Queen Elizabeth's School | St Luke's C of E School Exeter | Lipson Co-operative Academy | Exwick Heights Primary School | Honiton Community College | Sidmouth College | Matford Brook Academy | Exmouth Community College | Marine Academy Secondary

🌟 We’re so excited to welcome students from across Plymouth and Devon for the 2026 Innovation Competition at the Future Skills Centre Exeter today.

Together with Exeter College and the Green Skills Advisory Panel, we’ll be treated to student projects that have explored bold, creative solutions for a low-carbon, sustainable subsea or Martian exploration habitat, as well as the design of a school eco-event aligned with their School Climate Action Plan. 🌱

Stay tuned for updates from LEGO® Serious Play workshops, Minecraft challenges, and student-led presentations - all focused on sustainability and innovation.

Thank you to our sponsor Building Greater Exeter.

Thank you to Green Skills Advisory Panel, Exeter College and Make Happy for your support.



Whipton Barton Federation | West Exe School | St James Exeter | Isca Academy | Marine Academy Primary | Cranbrook Education Campus | Queen Elizabeth's School | St Luke's C of E School Exeter | Lipson Co-operative Academy | Exwick Heights Primary School | Honiton Community College | Sidmouth College | Matford Brook Academy | Exmouth Community College | Marine Academy Secondary