Seabird centre wins innovation award
The Scottish Seabird Centre at North Berwick has scooped the John Logie Baird Award for innovation at a ceremony in Glasgow's Science Centre.
Guests of honour included BBC Dragon's Den judge, Doug Richard and John Logie Baird's son, Malcolm Baird.
The seabird centre's winning Pods4Schools is an interactive educational project which engages local schools and the wider community with wildlife in East Lothian and around the Firth of Forth.
By combining video editing equipment, a safe website and a set of MP3 players, the package enables schools to create their own wildlife podcasts which are then hosted on their own devoted webpage, or viewed on an MP3 player.
The project will be available free to a worldwide audience and, with its focus on using technology and the local environment to promote interest in the wider, global environment, it has been enthusiastically welcomed by the education sector.
Thrilled
Working in partnership with Dunbar Grammar School, the first podcast features the conservationist John Muir and the kittiwakes in Dunbar, which was made as part of the school's John Muir Award programme.
Emily Dodd, the centre's education officer, said: "We were thrilled to win this award and we hope that the project will inspire and motivate young people all over Scotland.
"We are particularly grateful for all the support we have had from schools in East Lothian in making it happen."
Isabell Majewsky of the award organisers commented: "All of our winners really impressed our judging panels, who saw pitches from hundreds of inventors and innovators."
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