TeenTech City of Tomorrow Live Smart Skills – Running Order

Working to the brief of “smarter, kinder, safer” young people, individually or in small teams, design and construct architectural models of buildings to sit on the footprint the size of an A4 piece of card – but buildings can go out as well as up. Together they develop ideas for the connected city and consider how to use technology and the internet of things to improve how we will live, work and play in the future.

You'll join us for a TeenTech City of Tomorrow Live Build Day, where a TeenTech presenter and industry experts, will take you through the challenge! These sessions are engaging and highly interactive! Your pupils will be able to send questions and safely interact with us (through, for example, live quizzes) throughout.

Following the Live Build Day session, you'll then have time to work on the buildings at a time that suits you. You'll then submit the buildings your pupils/children create. You'll then join us at a later date for a virtual Ask The Experts session where project feedback will also be given.

Our new TeenTech City of Tomorrow Smart Skills sessions are virtual events you can run in your classroom!

Industry experts will take your students through lesson-length projects which include topics such as Coding through game design, Animation and more! Pupils will be able to safely share their work with our presenters too.

These are designed to help you to develop your students' digital, media and data literacy skills in an engaging and accessible way.

The “clever” city of the future will need a raft of highly skilled people who are capable of translating ideas into innovative and life-enhancing projects. We want to alert young people to the myriad opportunities and shift their perceptions of the contemporary construction industry that can be woefully misunderstood.

The interaction of physical and virtual systems opens up a whole new world of possibilities and we want to encourage young clever thinkers to understand how they might enjoy working in this space. We will help young students understand that opportunities are open to everyone regardless of gender or background. The exercise will help to bring the industry to life and help students see that they very much belong there.

If you would like to support young people develop valuable digital, creative, science, engineering and technology skills, TeenTech City of Tomorrow could be the answer. We are looking for inspiring industry experts from across the UK to provide mentoring and feedback for talented young people participating in the City of Tomorrow challenge.

You will be supported with our Mentor pack and experienced delivery team.

You will be expected to provide feedback (within your area of expertise) on young people’s building designs and models for the City of Tomorrow. Depending on your location and availability this could be in person, online or at a TeenTech event.

We have won many awards for connecting industry and education and, over the last 13 years, have worked with thousands of professionals. Our experience tells us they have found the interactions with young people as inspiring, uplifting and informative as the young people themselves.

Contact [email protected] for more details.

You will be emailed a link to the live stream, two days before the event, which will take you to a private page on the TeenTech website where you and your pupils can watch the session.

The video stream portion of our platform uses YouTube’s live event technology, broadcast straight to the TeenTech website. The pupils can watch the presenters but the presenters will not be able to see or hear the pupils or communicate with them directly. YouTube’s Live Chat functionality will be disabled. Please test the technology beforehand by visiting https://teentech.com/live/test/ and if it doesn’t work, let us know. You may need to contact your IT technician or supplier to unblock YouTube/YouTube live events.

The video stream portion of our platform uses YouTube’s live event technology, broadcast straight to the TeenTech website. The pupils can watch the presenters but the presenters will not be able to see or hear the pupils or communicate with them directly. YouTube’s Live Chat functionality will be disabled.

YouTube and YouTube Live are robust and reliable platforms for serving video. However, for child safety, schools are able to limit access to YouTube videos in a variety of ways.

When a live stream/event is showing as restricted or unavailable to watch at school, it is normally because of the school settings.

There are several settings that may be causing this to happen. Please see the troubleshooting tips below, which you can share with your IT admin.

How to test if my school is able to access YouTube Live content

Please visit the YouTube Live Home (this website will open in a new tab) and select any of the current live streams. If this works, and you're able to view the video, then the settings within your school allow for live streams to be played. If you receive an error message, have a look at the notes below to troubleshoot the issue.

Why does it say the live video is restricted or unavailable?

For child safety online, schools are able to limit access to YouTube videos in a variety of ways. When a live stream/event is showing as restricted or unavailable to watch at school, it is normally because of the school settings.

There are several settings that may be causing this to happen. Please see the troubleshooting tips below, which you can share with your IT admin.

YouTube may be blocked by a school filter

If you see a message "The connection was reset", your school will need to whitelist YouTube at your school (www.youtube.com) on your school’s teacher accounts.

1. You can test access by visiting any YouTube Live video on your school device/network.
2. If you receive the message above, contact your IT administrator and ask them to allow access to YouTube Live.

YouTube may be restricted by your school

If you get a message that says, “Video unavailable. This video is restricted. Try signing in with a Google account.”, it may be that your school Google Workspace settings are restricting access to certain types of videos or channels.

1. Log in to your Google Workspace (G Suite for Education) account, and navigate to the live event you wish to watch on the TeenTech website.
2. Turn off restricted mode (at the bottom of the menu accessed by clicking on your profile icon).
3. If you do not have access to changing these options, you will need to contact your IT administrator to support you.
4. Settings can be changed back, if needed, after the end of the live lesson.

Further support can found on the links below:

Google Classroom Support Configure YouTube restricted mode

LGfL has further advice on configuring YouTube access in schools

Ad blockers may be in place at your school

If you see a message that says, “Please try again later. (Playback ID:xxxxxx)”, this is most likely caused by ad blocker browser extensions. Please disable your ad blocking extension via your browser settings and extension settings. You may need to ask your IT administrator for further assistance.

There will be a private messaging box on the TeenTech site that pupils/teachers can use to ask the presenters questions without submitting personal information (other than their first name and nearest town). Questions from the pupils will be answered live by the presenters during the stream. Pupils will only be identified by their first name and class name/school name. Pupils cannot be seen or heard throughout the sessions.

We would love for you to join live so your pupils can interact with our presenter and experts, but if the time doesn't work for you, you will be able to watch the session back afterwards using the same link as the live broadcast.

You could submit questions through the link before the session, so our experts can answer them during the event! You’ll also have the chance to submit questions when you upload the completed projects.