Resumen de Competency through challenge: Schools’ partnerships to stimulate creativity and develop skills

Michael Hinton

• Challenging students to work on life-science research projects relevant to everyday life provides substantial opportunities that prove invaluable for university applications and employability.

  This article shares the Babraham Institute’s experiences of developing and delivering challenge projects, with perspectives provided by teachers from Sophianum School in the Netherlands and the Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology in the UK.