Final Chance for your Cracking Ideas!

It’s April which means you have just until the end of this month to enter your cracking idea into this year’s competition.

This year we are asking you to invent a new type of food or a food gadget.  To enter simply download an entry form and fill in your delicious ideas remembering to include patents, trade marks, design and copyright.  Alternatively you can enter a model, take photographs, draw plans or record your mouth watering creation in any way you feel suits your innovative Cracking Idea.

This year we have a host of exciting prizes including Wallace & Gromit models and signed books to win.

The competition closes on Wednesday 30th April, you can upload your fabulous food entry on our upload page or send it to us at the address below.
 

Cracking Ideas Competition
Intellectual Property Office
FREEPOST CF4185
Newport, NP20 1ZZ

Creating Movie Magic

We are working with the lovely people from Into Film & Industry Trust for IP Awareness on an exciting new competition and resource.

Creating Movie Magic is a competition and free teaching resource that supports the teaching of Intellectual Property in design and technology (D&T).  It is a powerful, innovative and wide-reaching copyright education resource, which uses film as a memorable teaching tool, teaching basic stop motion animation and camera effects. The resource encourages students to use Design and Technology skills to explore and help young people to take positive and legal decisions when accessing and watching films.

Through the resource students will also get an opportunity to put their new knowledge into a storyboard competition.  Aardman Animations will produce a 35-second film inspired by the winning storyboard, which will then be screened to hundreds of thousands of young people in cinemas across the UK at the Into Film Festival 2014.

The competition closes on Friday 9th May 2014, to access the free teaching resources and competition details, check out the website