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Youngsters challenge to build seaside town
MORE than 900 pupils from primary schools across the region will be asked to build part of a seaside town at this year's 'Build It' event at Kelham Island Industrial Museum.
Pupils, aged five to 11, will be asked to design and build a seaside town using materials including cardboard, felt, sticky tape, wood, paper, pipe cleaners and cotton bobbins.
Each team will get to pick a well-known building by the seaside out of a hat – including a lighthouse, caf, hotel, fish and chip shop, tourist information centre and lifeboat station – and will have just three hours to build it.
And once complete the building will be placed on to a 4x5m floor map and gradually the town will get completed by all the teams.
Build It, on Friday June 5, has been organised in partnership between Business & Education South Yorkshire, STEMPOINT South Yorkshire at Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield Industrial Museums.
Teachers and industry experts will be on hand to help the budding builders.
They will aid with design and constructing the projects.
Mary Milburn, from Business and Education South Yorkshire, said: "The event helps encourage teamwork and communication between pupils, but also gives them a chance to work alongside experts within the construction sector."
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