Exciting things happening in GOLD CREST

CREST is the Royal Society’s international awards scheme designed to encourage students to be innovative, creative, and to problem solve in science, technology and environmental studies.

CREST teaches students to be innovative, creative and to problem solve, and is highly motivational. CREST can inspire, from an early age, an enduring passion for science and technology.

CREST encourages students to use their knowledge in a creative way, helping them to bridge the gap between their academic learning and the challenges and opportunities of the world outside school

At Gold, students expand their knowledge of specific techniques, language and analysis methods used in their area of research.
Student achievement is assessed on creativity, perseverance and the application of knowledge.

All students are encouraged to work with people in the community other than their teacher, but for Silver and Gold CREST awards, consultants and assessors from outside the school community are required and have clearly defined roles.

Students involved in the Gold CREST Award develop their projects largely as a result of their own initiative, with guidance from a number of support personnel: a supervising teacher, a consultant and two assessors (one to assess the CREST criteria, the other to assess the scientific/technical aspects of the project).

A Gold CREST project is expected to take at least 100 hours, about two and a half times as long as a Silver CREST project.

The greater level of achievement in terms of creativity, perseverance and application which is expected in Gold projects necessitates a more complex project structure and content.

This means that a Gold CREST project requires:

1. more effort in developing a project proposal;
2. a higher level of research;
3. a greater number of project meetings between the student and their support personnel;
4. greater depth of design/experimental work;
5. more research, data analysis and interpretation;
6. a seminar to be presented.

Guidance for students working on the Gold award is largely obtained through a series of meetings:

1. a project outline meeting;
2. a project proposal meeting;
3. a project progress meeting;
4. and a project final assessment meeting.

Gold CREST Students are:

A CREST student earns their CREST award by demonstrating creativity, perseverance and application of knowledge and this is especially true of Gold students.
Congratulations to our Gold CRESTERS...