Secondary project briefs (ages 11+)


Bronze Awards are typically completed by students aged 11+. They complete a ten-hour project which is a perfect introduction to STEM project work. Over the course of the project, teams of students design their own investigation, record their findings, and reflect on their learnings. This process gives students a taste of what it is like to be a scientist or engineer in the real-world.


Silver Awards are typically completed by students aged 14+ over thirty hours. Project work at Silver level is designed to stretch your students and enrich their STEM studies. Students direct the project, determining the project’s aim and how they will achieve it. They carry out the project, record and analyse their results and reflect on the project and their learnings. All Silver projects are assessed by CREST assessors via our online platform.


Gold Awards are typically completed by students aged 16+ over seventy hours. Students’ projects are self-directed, longer term and immerse them in real research. At this level, we recommend students work with a mentor from their chosen STEM field of study. All Gold projects are assessed by CREST assessors via our online platform. There are more CREST approved resources that have been developed by our partners and providers specific to your region.


There are more CREST approved resources that have been developed by our partners and providers specific to your region.


Find out how to build practical CREST projects into secondary science lessons using our free teacher guidance pack. Supporting this guidance are easy-to-use, free-to-download mapping workbooks, which match individual Bronze, Silver and Gold CREST Award projects with each area of the secondary science curricula for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. You can download and save your own copy of the relevant mapping workbook via the following links:


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All SuperStar challenges

  • Text
  • Handson
  • Stem
  • Challenges
  • Discussion
  • Explore
  • Create
  • Experiment
  • Investigate
  • Toothpaste
  • Materials
  • Glue
  • Tomato
  • Yoghurt
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The activities in this pack have been selected from our library of CREST SuperStar challenges. Children need to complete eight challenges to achieve a CREST SuperStar Award. If you want, you can mix and match challenges from different packs, as long as children complete eight SuperStar challenges. This resource is published under an Attribution - non-commercial - no derivatives 4.0 International creative commons licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Bowled Over Activity

Bowled Over Activity Card Orion and Andromeda love playing outside but the play area isn’t very exciting. They’ve played football, chase and hide and seek over and over again. Now they want to play a new game. They both love going to the bowling alley. “Could we make a bowling alley outside?” they wonder. Your challenge Design and make a version of ten-pin bowling that you can play outside. To help you out, a few of Cosmic and Gem classmates have had some ideas: “I think we should compare short fat bottles and tall thin bottles.” “I think we should try using sand, water, gravel and bits of polystyrene to fill the bottles.” “I think we should compare big balls and small balls, and light balls and heavier balls.” “I think we should try playing our bowling game on gravel, short grass, long grass, sand, concrete and tarmac.” “I think we should see how many pins are knocked over in 10 throws to compare different arrangements.” Discuss Talk about ten-pin bowling and how you play it. If you have never played ten-pin bowling, see what you can find out about how to play it. How will you make pins that are like the ones at a bowling alley? Plastic drinks bottles could work, but you might have other ideas. How will you arrange the pins? How will you make them stand up? Don’t forget that it might be windy outside! What will make the best bowling ball? Bowling alleys are usually very smooth. Can you think why? Which outside surface might be best for your new game?

Getting started How will you test your ideas to see which works best? How will you make sure you do your tests safely? Test your ideas How will you record your findings? Could you make a table or a graph to show your results? Big Bottles Number of bottle knocked over in 10 throws Small Bottles Big Ball Small Ball Share your ideas Take pictures of your investigations. Use your pictures to design a set of instructions for making an outdoor ten-pin bowling alley. British Science Association Registered Charity No. 212479 and SC039236

Bronze level

Ten hour projects recommended for ages 11+. Find out more about this level and how to gain a CREST Award on the Bronze Awards page.


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Bronze

Silver level

Thirty hour projects recommended for ages 14+. Find out more about this level and how to gain a CREST Award on the Silver Award page.


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Silver

Gold level

Seventy hour projects recommended for ages 16+. Find out more about this level and how to gain a CREST Award on the Gold Awards page


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Gold

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