Rotary Technology Tournament

Every year, Cirencester Rotary support the Rotary Schools Tech Tournament.

What are Rotary Technology Tournaments?
Rotary Technology Tournaments are competitive, one-day STEM events where student teams design, build, and test solutions to unseen engineering challenges using supplied materials.

Rotary Technology Tournaments are a challenging and enjoyable way for young people to enrich their STEM learning (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). The young people, typically in teams of four, have to solve an interactive technology-based task and are required to design, develop and build a solution with the materials supplied. Tournaments culminate in the testing session when teams demonstrate their best solution to the task and can observe the efforts of competing teams. Rotarians are on hand to guide the teams throughout and offer a helping hand where necessary to ensure everyone gets the most from the experience. As STEM subjects continue to be a key part of the school curriculum, Rotary Technology Tournaments support not only academic learning, but teach skills such as teamwork, communication and timekeeping.

Who can take part?
Technology Tournaments are designed for secondary school pupils aged 11-16, with an advanced age level for 16 to 18-year olds.

All costs are paid by the organising Rotary clubs and there is no entry cost to school teams other than any potential transport to and from the event.

The tournament is judged by Rotary members and guests with backgrounds in engineering, technology and design.
This year, the event was judged by representatives of The Corin Group, Cirencester and participating schools were Farmor’s School, Thomas Keble School, and Westonbirt School. The event was hosted by Cirencester College and some of their students also took part.

If your school would like to take part in next years event, usually held in June, please contact us by emailing CirencesterRotary@gmail.com