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Speedwell School

SpeedweIl is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive situated on a single site near the eastern boundary of the City of Bristol. The majority of pupils come from primary schools in the Speedwell, Kingswood, St George and Fishponds areas of the city, although a few travel from further afield.

Visit the Speedwell School website.

Speedwell School attended the first week.

Speedwell Winners

Team Name Team Number
Best Overall Mainframe 1
Best Team Work Wrabac 9
Best Presentation Muppets 3
Best Idea for a Game Should be Brainiacs 4
Prize for Creativity Brain Twisters 10
Best Research The Big Brains 8
Best Website Concussion 5
Runner Up The at-Bristol Conquerors 2
Runner Up Braniacs 6
Runner Up Brain Cells 7

Visit the Speedwell School Photo Gallery.

One teacher said "we were so proud of what they had achieved in just one week. They were surrounded by such a stimulating environment - workshops about the brain and about games, they loved it".

Games advisors
Mark Green - Deputy Editor of N64 Magazine.
Rich Pelley Deputy Editor of Playstation Magazine.
Both magazines review games and new hardware.
Gavin Skinner - multimedia designer
Shawn Sobers- HTV game show writer (now at-Bristol staff)

Judges
Prizes awarded by BBC (London) producer - Nathan Williams. He has produced Tomorrows World and is currently producing part of the 'Are You Superhuman' series to be broadcast over christmas. Part of this series, the human zoo, has been filmed in Explore.
Dr Katherine Hann - Director of Explore
Dr Penny Fidler - resident neuroscientist
Jenni Barker - NESTA
John Trickett - Wessex SATRO

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