The winning schools' presentations

The 6 schools below presented their ideas to the 'Dragons' on the final day of the Eco Design Challenge. On this page you can view their presentations.

St. Ives School: A Technology College - £6,700

The main concept was to turn their run-down 1970’s art block environmentally friendly with photovoltaic panels, better use of natural light and the involvement of the whole community.

Helen Brooks is design director at Penzance based RLT Architects who acted as a mentor to the team from St Ives School who have won the 2010 Dott Cornwall, Eco Design Challenge says, "Design plays a key role in creating a more sustainable future and being able to work with Dott Cornwall to inspire the next generation of designers and architects is amazing and we look forward to working alongside the school to make it a reality."

Wadebridge School - £4,000

Wadebridge School’s Cycle Safe planned to get people out of cars and onto their bikes. They opted to buy secure bike lockers and racks to be set in pride of place at the front of their school building. But they also had ambitions to create a Zero Impact Week across the Nation and a website for finding the safest cycle route to school.

Sir James Smith’s Community College - £2,000

Through a ‘green point’ award system encouraging recycling and a creative marketing plan fronted the slogan ‘I Can, You Can, We Can!’, Sir James Smith have developed a national school scheme that aims to get theirs and other schools to adopt recycling in a fun and competitive manner. They have developed a recycling competition with tie ins to local recycling companies, and an instruction pack containing advice and collection bins which they intend to sell to local and national schools to raise the awareness that by recycling their drink cans they their schools can not only benefit environmentally but also financially.

Penrice Community College – awarded £400

The young people from Penrice proposed to build a small café from sustainable, local materials furnished with recycled wares. The café would stock various produce all of which would be locally sourced or grown and prepared on site. They have researched and proposed a build made from sustainable materials and would like to put on a ‘living roof’ which would assist with irrigation as well as insulate the building.

Budehaven Community School – awarded £400

The Budehaven Community School team have developed a system of brightly coloured recycle bins that are placed on corridors around school to support the school’s aim in becoming more environmentally friendly. The bins have been designed in a fun format of netball hoops, through which pupils and staff are encouraged to throw their recyclable materials and then to they gain the satisfaction of crushing their “shots” by pulling a lever device. Each shot increases the scores on the bin panel score board.

Bodmin College – awarded £400

A group of students from the Bodmin College Eco Design Challenge taskforce have come up with an innovatively fun and fitness enhancing alternative to electric battery chargers that sources from the energy of youth rather than the National Grid! The students have come up with some initial designs for a wrist-mounted dynamo powered AA battery charger that can be used during PE lessons and other activity based sessions. The vigorous arm movements required with basketball, tennis or even running for example would recharge their batteries without any reliance on carbon emitting electricity.