Friday 18th November saw a good turnout for the annual Shell  conference. Girls in Energy groups came from Banff, Mintlaw, Peterhead, Turriff and two schools in Fife to meet at Shell’s meeting and conference facility near Cults called Woodbank.

This year’s challenge was based on the Shell Bright Ideas Challenge. To create a solution/idea and think about how technology can be applied to create cleaner and more efficient energy by 2050.

The girls were split into sixteen teams of five with each member of a team being from a different school. The teams were then asked to prepare to ‘pitch’ their idea/solution to a panel of ‘dragons/judges’ in a four-minute presentation.

The judges were extremely impressed with the knowledge of the pupils, their innovative ideas and their presentation skills and they had a hard time deciding the winners which were as follows

1st Place – TrainGen – producing power from the London Underground – Claire’s Team

2nd Place – Students Run The School – A pupil powered school – Abbie’s Team

3rd Place – Oakay Energy – An energy ‘tree’ to help power our towns and cities – Destiny’s Team

Congratulations to all those students that took part. Hopefully everyone enjoyed themselves and learned some valuable team working skills.