The Priory Witham Academy, United Kingdom "Over the last week a number of Year 9 pupils have been part of a trial connecting the UK to the USA. The design project aimed to allow US and UK pupils to work on a joint project via Skype. The project has been organised by Dave Bramston and a well known figure within the USA called Doris Wells-Papanek. The project has been conducted between ourselves and schools in Philadelphia and Boston. The theme of the project is 'A Bug's Life Depends on Food'. The pupils had to create a storage device that the Ants from 'A Bugs Life' could use to protect their food from the grasshopper etc. All the pupils had were string, marshmallows (the food), spaghetti, scissors and paper. They then pitched, provided feedback and interacted with a group of pupils, who were much older, possibly Year 11 or above, from the USA."
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