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How we teach risk and value through the Paper Clip Challenge

How we teach risk and value through the Paper Clip Challenge . Alex Harrison – GEMS Wellington Academy, Dubai, Silicon Oasis. What is it?. Challenge Starting w ith nothing and then building from there. Where does it originate from?. Kyle MacDonald. His Story. In Only 14 Swaps

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How we teach risk and value through the Paper Clip Challenge

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  1. How we teach risk and value through the Paper Clip Challenge Alex Harrison – GEMS Wellington Academy, Dubai, Silicon Oasis

  2. What is it? • Challenge • Starting with nothing and then building from there

  3. Where does it originate from? • Kyle MacDonald

  4. His Story • In Only 14 Swaps • Kyle Explains

  5. In Practice • Founded an Enterprise group • Did several Assemblies to targeted year groups (6-10) • Issued the challenge (and paper clips) • Gave students 1 week to swap to their hearts content • Had a major prize donated to act as the ‘carrot’ • Collected and ‘bundled’ the prizes so as to provide a greater incentive for the ‘lesser’ prizes • Conduct a ‘raffle’ draw with tickets bought at 5AED a pop.

  6. Our results • Over 3600AED raised for Rashid Pediatric Therapy Centre • Students learnt the concept of risk, if they don’t try they will never know! • They ended up creating something form nothing

  7. Roll Out • The event rolled out to all schools in the GEMS network. 5 Schools took part • Reception was positive and final swaps were…

  8. Questions?

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