Competition for Students with £1,000 Prize from the British International Education Association

The British International Education Association (BIEA) is inviting students aged 9 to 21 all over the world to participate in the 'RePack to Restore Our World' Competition for the year 2021. The theme of the 2021 version of the competition is "Rethink food packaging for school and workplace lunches!".

Competition Theme:-

• Plastic is one of the most important materials in protecting, preserving and transporting food. It is flexible, transparent, strong, light and waterproof. Without plastic packaging, many of our food products would be difficult to transport or perish before we could consume them.
• Plastic, however, has an enormous environmental impact. Plastic pollution is filling up our landfills and our oceans and will take thousands of years to break down.
• Humans can use innovative ideas and modern technology to devise new, sustainable ways of packaging food to reduce the amount of plastic waste produced.
• The competition theme in 2021 reflects two major concepts: Technological innovation, and the replacement of plastic packaging: (Re)Pack to restore our world.
• In this year’s competition, you will need to consider how food can be conveniently (re)packaged without using plastic.

Competition Tasks:-

• First-Round
• Task 1 Report writing: Competitors will use the Internet and other secondary sources to research, design and write a report on the 'RePack to Restore Our World' project, developing alternative food packaging material for preserving and transporting food.
• Task 2A Innovation (prototyping): In this task, you should make non-plastic packaging for each of the food types described in your report. Please submit the final prototype packaging as photos embedded into a PDF document.
• Task 2B Experimentation: You should experiment with your prototype designs to help inform your final decisions. These can be simple experiments that highlight the suitability of your design for each food that you have chosen. You will need to summarise your findings into a short video. The number of experiments and the length of the video depends on your age category.
• International Round
• The details of the international rounds will be announced in May, we are keeping a close watch on the pandemic and making adjustments accordingly.

• The team with the highest overall score will receive the £1,000 grand-prize. Each age category winner and runners up will receive certificates. All entrants will receive a certificate as well.
• The suggested student age categories are: 9-11 years old, 12-14 years old, 15-17 years old and 18-21 years old. There are awards for each age group as following :
• Champion.
• First Runner-up.
• Second Runner-up.
• Outstanding Achievement Award.
• Best Report Award.
• Best Oral Presentation Award.
• Best Prototype Award.
• Best Creativity Award.
• Best Instructor Award.
• Best Experiment Award.
• Best Display Award.
• Best Effort Award.
• Best Participation Award.
• Special Awards:
• BIEA STEM Star Awards: The BIEA STEM Star Awards is an accreditation programme from the British International Education Association, it’s designed to encourage student development in the STEM subjects.

• The competition is open to students aged 9 to 21. 
• Students can enter as part of a team (of up to 5 people) or as an individual competitor (however individual entries may lose marks in the team aspect). 
• Schools may have more than entry. Students who are unable to attend school may submit entries as an individual competitor, although all competitors under the age of 18 or in high school must be registered by a responsible adult (e.g. teacher or parent).

About BIEA:-

The British International Education Association (BIEA) is a not-for-profit organisation with head office in London. BIEA's mission is to promote British education to emerging international education markets, primarily in China and UAE, but also in other countries. BIEA works to meet the needs and challenges in international education. BIEA is helping to build a platform for knowledge exchange between the UK and other national education services, through direct interaction between policy makers and education professionals. BIEA aims to broaden the horizons of education practitioners through training events in the UK and in the range of countries.

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