NextGen 2022 "Sustainability" Work Experience Week

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NextGen 2022 Sustainability

Work Experience Week  

Last week, we received a Work Experience (WE) brief from the Board who's running this course, NextGen. The theme for this work experience was about sustainability on Earth, and we had two briefs that we could choose;

Option A) Make a game to inspire Positive Behaviour Change for Sustainability

Option B) Make an Animation to Educate & Inform People about a Sustainability Issue

After choosing the brief we wanted to follow, we had 4 days to produce our work to NextGen, as well as to 4wardfutures. On the 5th day, the chosen teams would come forward & present their work to NextGen & to 4wardfutures. 

Day 1) Founding of our Team & Research

The majority of our class chose the Games brief however there were 4 of us that chose the animation brief and this is how we formed our group. The Animation brief stated that we could focus on any of the following Sustainability issue;

  • Diet
  • Fashion
  • Energy
  • Pollution
  • Activism
  • Or some other idea which has personal meaning that you can inspire & inform
Me & our team decided to go with making an animation about Pollution. I will talk about the members of my team and their roles later on in the blog as we decided to discuss about our roles in Day 2 of the WE week. Our team members consisted of;
  • Me (Mohammed)
  • Miles
  • Oliver
  • Dan
To start this week off, we all did some research so we could get the information we need, to make our animation informative. Firstly we researched about pollution, during our research we discovered that there were various types of pollution. Three in total. Air Pollution, Water Pollution & Land Pollution so, we researched the types individually & how we can reduce each one. This was our teams research on the project; 



My (Mohammed's) research









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