Resilience Challenge

On Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd January, a team of six students from St Catherine's took part in a Resilience Challenge competing against nine other schools from across the Island.
The Isle of Wight Council funded the event with the help of Ed-Wise, who managed the process at Building 41 in Cowes. Each group of students were given a real world scenario where they needed to produce working solutions to immediate issues and also develop a plan of action to prevent these from happening again. This year's scenario was a storm that would bring wide-scale flooding to many parts of the Island. Teams were provided with critical information updates every 30 minutes on day 1, where they needed to think fast and work hard to create solutions to these individual problems. By the end of day 1, students had gathered a huge amount of data and were now tasked with producing a presentation on how to deal with this type of event. Day 2 was presentation day and began with fine-tuning the presentation and creation of their scripts that they would read to their judges whilst delivering the presentation. A dry run produced nothing but positive feedback, so students felt confident going into the final presentation. This was delivered with poise and efficiency where all the team spoke confidently about the information they had gathered. The panel of judges were a group of 10 individuals from Central Government, the Police Service, the Ambulance Service, the Fire Service, the Coastguard, the Isle of Wight Council, The Met Office, and Southern Water. The judges were all hugely impressed with the attention to detail that the team had put into their presentation. As a result of the team's superb presentation and tremendous hard work, they were awarded one of four prizes available to the 10 teams and this was Best Presentation. A truly magnificent achievement for all six students.