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TV presenter and teacher Kate Bellingham, sets a challenge to KS4/5 design and technology students, to design her a dress made from e-textiles, to wear as she hosts the British Engineering Excellen...

TV presenter and teacher Kate Bellingham, sets a challenge to KS4/5 design and technology students, to design her a dress made from e-textiles, to wear as she hosts the British Engineering Excellence Awards at the Globe Theatre Kate is joined by a panel of fashion, engineering and textiles experts to help choose a winning design. The judges will be looking for how well the designs have followed the brief, the incorporation of different e-textiles, such as LED?s and fibre optics, how easily the design can be made and of course whether Kate likes it!There are two other clips in the series giving the rest of the story and full resources to do the project in your school are available on the web page.

Kate Bellingham has set a challenge to KS4/5 design and technology students, to design her a dress made from e-textiles, to wear as she hosts a prodigious awards ceremony at the Globe Theatre in London.The winner of the competition, Abigail, an A-level product and design student, meets with Kate and the fashion company who will be making to the dress, to discuss the design further. The group looks at how this can be turned into a wearable and functional dress. They pay particular attention to the materials, the electronic components, such as LED?s, fibre optics and circuitry and of course, the cost!There are two other clips in the series giving the rest of the story and full resources to do the project are available on the web page.

Kate Bellingham has set a challenge to KS4/5 design and technology students, to design her a dress made from e-textiles, to wear as she hosts the British Engineering Excellence Awards at the Globe Theatre in London.The winning design has now been completed and Kate is wearing it at the awards show. The designers reveal how the electronics were integrated into the dress, how the electronic components are controlled and whether everything has gone to plan! There are two other clips in the series giving the earlier parts of the story and full resources to do the project in your school are available on the programme web page.

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