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Read the inspirational story of how seven students from Archbishop Tenison’s School, Croydon, set out to make a difference in both the global and local community, raising over £5000 for charity by planning, organizing and running a celebrity packed “Quizzing Event of the Year”, going on to set up a fully networked ICT Suite at a local community centre.

Stage 1 - Students planned and implemented a Celebrity "Quizzing Event of the Year" held at the Croydon

Park Hotel. On the night (December 1) we were hit with some of the worst weather conditions and snow, but Children in Crisis – Have a vision over a 100 people attended and £5000+ was raised for the two charities. 1. Children in Crisis 2. Local of a world where all children have access to education, enabling them Community Centre (Purley Cross) The night was fabulous - thanks to the BBC Eggheads that came down from to fulfill their potential to live all over the country, Trevor Montague (founder of the British Quizzing Association and bestselling author) and positive, healthy lives. What a other notable celebrities including William Hartston. Raffle Prizes were donated including wonderful charity to support. Rodard Kasango and Omar “royal” dolce & gabanna gowns and a night at the Ritz Hotel. A few weeks after the event, a wash-up meeting Banarhally made moving speeches was held with the relevant charities and the cheques handed over. Children in Crisis wrote later to inform the in support of this charity. students how much of a difference their contribution to this amazing charity has made.

BBC Eggheads, Kevin, Barry, Chris, CJ and Pat; Best selling A to Z A server for automatic backups and shared series author – Trevor Montague; resources as well as shared peripherals. William Hartston (Chess Grandmaster) ; Grahame Harding of Approximately half the money raised from the night was to First City Care; Croydon TV and go to the Purley Cross Centre where students would be finally CENTRALE SHOPPING CENTRE, CROYDON for designing, planning and implementing a fully networked and sponsoring the event equipped ICT suite (from scratch!) When I say from scratch, I mean literally from scratch including ordering each of the components and assembling machines. This enabled them to get the best spec for the cheapest price. The process involved coming up with 3D visual mocks-ups of what the centre could look like (before and after) as well as designing The centre is having an official launch on the 5th July detailed network diagrams and plans. What a wonderful 2011. We do hope you will be able to join us. This project was part of the experience and worthwhile endeavour. Purley Cross Centre DIPLOMAI N IT course (Edexcel). at THE NETWORKED SUITE 24 High Street Archbishop Tenison’s School: Unit 3 Purley CR8 2AA (Professional Development and Team The fully networked IT suite will be used by the Purley Cross 020 8668 4189 working) and Unit 5 (Managing Centre to reach out to the community, providing IT training Technology Systems (networking) and services to those who need it most. The suite, fully For further information please contact The course is about “real” industry sourced, assembled and set-up by the students includes 9 [email protected] or see www.teachingict.net and hands on experience. machines (spread out across three rooms)