Introduction

Date: Venue: Time:

Aims

Wednesday 11th March 2025

The London Cruise Terminal, Fort Road, Tilbury, RM18 7NG (use postcode for SatNav).

Competitors are asked to arrive and register at 12.00. The Tournament will start promptly at 12.30pm and the anticipated finish time is 4.30pm.

Technology Tournaments are a well-established and successful competition promoted by Rotary International in Britain and Ireland (RGBI). This Tournament is organised by the Rotary Club of Grays Thurrock in association with the London Cruise Terminal at the Port of Tilbury.

Each team of four participants is required to design, develop, build and then test a previously set technology task.

This competition aims to encourage young people to:

• put their STEM skills to the test.

• show they can work within a team and communicate with each other to achieve a common goal.

• be creative and constructive but showing their command of time management skills.

  Who can take part?

  The competition is open to all schools and college communities and any other young peoples’ community organisations, for example, community Interact, Scout Groups, Girl Guides etc.

  The age group for teams’ participants is 11 to 16 years old. Entrants must not be below or above the age parameters on the day of the tournament.

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  Each Team members’ name and age on the 1st March 2025 must be provided to the organisers on Registration. Appropriate staff are asked to select students carefully taking into account that the Tasks are based on engineering principals.
  Entrants may participate in a club or district competition that is outside of their geographical boundary but may compete in only one Rotary club or Rotary district Technology Tournament.

• A bottle of water will be provided for each entrant.