{"id":608,"date":"2026-03-05T11:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/?p=608"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:16:49","slug":"stem-creating-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/2026\/03\/05\/stem-creating-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM &#8211; Creating Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">On Tuesday 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of February we were very excited to welcome P6 pupils from across the cluster to our Cluster Challenge as part of Glasgow Science Festival&#8217;s Creating Engineers Competition.<\/div>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<div>The pupils were representing their primary schools, with the winners of our challenge progressing onto a regional Lanarkshire round.<\/div>\n<div>Pupils were tasked with creating a new piece of playground equipment using K&#8217;Nex, ensuring it was safe, could move, and (most importantly) was fun!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>All of our teams did a fantastic job, and our guest judges of Mrs Brown and Mr Lewis found it very hard to pick their favourite!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our winners were pupils from St Teresa&#8217;s Primary, with runners up from Our Lady &amp; St Francis.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-609\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bctdepartment\/uploads\/sites\/39533\/2026\/03\/05111554\/P22400051-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bctdepartment\/uploads\/sites\/39533\/2026\/03\/05111554\/P22400051-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bctdepartment\/uploads\/sites\/39533\/2026\/03\/05111554\/P22400051-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-610\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bctdepartment\/uploads\/sites\/39533\/2026\/03\/05111555\/P22400031-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bctdepartment\/uploads\/sites\/39533\/2026\/03\/05111555\/P22400031-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bctdepartment\/uploads\/sites\/39533\/2026\/03\/05111555\/P22400031.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-611\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bctdepartment\/uploads\/sites\/39533\/2026\/03\/05111556\/P22400011-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bctdepartment\/uploads\/sites\/39533\/2026\/03\/05111556\/P22400011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bctdepartment\/uploads\/sites\/39533\/2026\/03\/05111556\/P22400011.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Well done again to all our teams and thank you to our S2 helpers!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 24th\u00a0of February we were very excited to welcome P6 pupils from across the cluster to our Cluster Challenge as part of Glasgow Science Festival&#8217;s Creating Engineers Competition. 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Pupils were tasked with creating a new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/2026\/03\/05\/stem-creating-engineers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STEM &#8211; Creating Engineers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bctdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}