Big Challenge Creativity Award

Big Challenge Awards 2023

The Big Challenge Awards is an annual enterprise competition facilitated through Sheffield City Council’s See It Be It in Sheffield Team; open to all Y7-Y9 students. We were very excited to sponsor one of this years awards – the Award for Creativity.

Taking place in March, the event saw over 900 students participate in the competition. Stacey Jubb, Head of Learning at the NVM said, “It was a truly inspirational evening. I was blown away by the talented young people that we have paving the way for the future of Sheffield.”

The winning teams in the NVM Creativity Award were ‘Craft and Co’ from Forge Valley School and ‘Torched Views’ from Holgate Meadows. Their prize was an invitation to experience a day behind the scenes at the National Videogame Museum where they would also take part in a ‘Star Object’ Workshop.

Visiting the Museum

The winning teams visited the NVM on the 12th July to explore the galleries playable games and unique exhibitions. The seven students from Forge Valley and Holgate Meadows schools were then asked to think about what item in the Museum they would pick as a Star Object and why it matters to them.

During the workshop, our curator, Emily, discussed how our ‘Star Objects’ are selected. This was followed by the students picking their own ‘Star Objects’ from our collection and writing the interpretation labels for their chosen objects. All of which are on display in the Museum this summer.

The students also got to experience the process of how our summer programme ‘Fast Travel‘ was put together.

Selected Star Objects

A Star Object is an item in our collection that we choose to highlight for a period of time. Objects often have a new way of being displayed while providing additional insight into the objects history and/or cultural impact. The objects have an additional gallery label of 200 words plus an additional longer piece for our website.

The team of students ventured around the Museum galleries to examine and discuss the objects in our collection. They were then challenged to research their chosen objects and write it’s interpretation to be displayed in the Museum.

Three extremely interesting and diverse objects were selected. These were the 1998 Furby, Nintendo’s R.O.B robot and the handcrafted models from Lumino City.

The BiG Challenge is an enterprise competition open to all Y7-Y9 students in Sheffield. Each team has the opportunity to design and grow a business from a £25 start up loan.

The National Videogame Museum was proud to sponsor the Award for Creativity.