Building a Greener Future: STEM Club’s Sustainable Village Project
STEM Club has made an exceptional start to the term as students dive into our ambitious Sustainable Village engineering project.
Each session has been filled with creativity, teamwork, and scientific curiosity as our young engineers work together to design and build a model eco‑village powered entirely by renewable energy.
We are delighted to share that we have secured a Neon Bursary, and this has allowed us to enrich the experience with specialised workshops and guest speakers who have inspired and educated our students about sustainability, engineering pathways, and environmental innovation. These sessions have helped students understand how their developing STEM skills can be used to solve real‑world challenges.
A core element of the project is the collaborative structure. Students are working in groups of three or four, with each group responsible for completing a specific segment of the village, which has encouraged exceptional teamwork, careful planning, and shared problem‑solving.
Every team has taken ownership of a different part of the model, whether it is the wind turbines and solar farm, the hydroelectric dam and water systems, the sustainable houses and community garden, or the wetland and biodiversity zone. Together, these components form a fully functioning eco‑village, and students are learning how their individual contributions fit into a wider community design.
So far, students have begun shaping the landscape, sketching scaled layouts, and mapping out the renewable‑energy systems, housing areas, water filtration features, community spaces, and green zones. They have also been exploring scientific principles such as energy generation, water purification, insulation efficiency, and environmental adaptation. With each session, their confidence has grown as they transform their ideas into physical models.
The design currently resembles the 3D visual shown below, which students have used to guide their measurements and construction decisions.
As the project continues, students will begin building and testing their designs, constructing working wind turbines and solar panels, experimenting with rainwater harvesting and hydroelectric systems, designing green‑roofed homes using recycled materials, and evaluating their ideas using real data. This exciting phase will allow them to apply science, maths, engineering, and technology in a practical and engaging way.
Later next term, we will host a STEM Showcase where each group will present their completed section of the village and explain the sustainability choices behind their designs. This event will be an important step in our Neon Bursary journey and a celebration of the creativity and teamwork shown by our students.
If you have any questions about the STEM Club or the Sustainable Village project, please contact
Mr. Hasan at: m.hasan@harrisdulwichboys.org.uk
Sustainable Village in the making!
