School success with STATWARS: Climate Change Challenge in 2023-2024 academic year

In total we saw 5,370 Pupils and 179 Teachers, from 179 Schools, take part in the STATWARS: Climate Change Challenge. STATWARS was run across the UK in the 2023–24 academic year thanks to the support of the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust (RAFCT).

STATWARS: Climate Change Challenge is a data project with multiple curriculum links to science, mathematics, computing, and engineering as well as english and geography. The competition empowers and educates pupils aged 8–14 to tackle climate change using data they capture themselves.

Pupils use our calculator to work out their own carbon footprint, then use this data to identify three pledges they can personally make in their daily lives to help tackle climate change.

Pupils submitted posters, infographics, letters and videos to explain what changes they are committing to make, and why others should too. Some key themes we saw from the pupils this year were to shop locally, walk, cycle or take public transport to and from school and reduce electricity
usage in the home.

Every single pupil who takes part receives a graded certificate, and up to £5,000 of eco-prizes available to winning schools.

STATWARS: Climate Change Challenge is running again and has been fully funded by Aggreko, Anglia Ruskin University, Northern Powergrid, Royal Air Force Charitable Trust, Siemens and SSE Rewewables.

You can learn more about the competition here: www.statwarscompetition.com