A Place on the Podium

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A Place on the Podium? Kate Filochowski -
Podium
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Historical role of Colleges and Universities
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Podium New Website
Showcase In Your Region News Events Opportuni
ties Links Contacts Resources
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Involving and Inspiring Students
Choose London today and more than ever you send
a message to the youth of the world that the
Games is for them. Lord Coe
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Ceremonies and the Cultural Olympiad



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Welcoming the World

64 increase in International Students in
Australia post the 2000 Games
83 FECs and HEIs are included in the 2012
Pre-Games Training Camp Guide
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Official Programmes and Opportunities

• GetSet
• CompeteFor
• Inspire Mark
• Competitions
• Live it, breathe it, design it
• Royal Mint 50p coins
• RHS 2012 Garden Design

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How can we get involved with 2012 here?
Can we all have a piece?


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Get Set
The Official Education Programme of London
2012! Interactive resources aiming to provide
the opportunity for every school and college in
the UK to get involved with the 2012
Games getset.london2012.com 3 Tiers 1. Use
the website 2. Sign up and join in at your
college 3. Join the Get Set Network

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Get Set
Young people at the heart Age-specific areas
(16-19 under development) Your Space Map to
share activity and experience Info on the Games
and Heroes 8 Strands to Go Futher Communication
, collaboration and citizenship Culture and
creativity Enterprise Healthy and Active
Lifestyles Internationalism PE and School
Sport Practical learning Sustainability and
regeneration

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Get Set Network

• AIM FOR THE GET SET NETWORK!!!
• Sign up as a college
• Contribute to the site content showing your
  activity on any (several) of the 8 strands
  blogs, videos, pictures, reportstheyre not
  picky!
• Include a commitment to the values in your
  college stragetic plan (send in a copy of the
  page to prove it!)
• Keep contributing
• Get awarded the Learner Mark
• Good things come to those who wait
• (and join the Get Set Network)

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Compete For
Brokerage system for all 2012 related
contracts Gives unique access to opportunities
throughout the 2012 supply chain Colleges can
sign up many already have, a couple have been
awarded contracts! www.competefor.com
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Logo Design Competition
Design the Education Logo infill (16-21 year old
designers) www.london2012.com/logocompet
ition


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RHS Olympic Park Garden Design Competition
Win the chance to help design a Great British
Garden for the London 2012 Olympic Park.
Involves non-traditional subjects with the
Games - argriculture, design, landscape
gardening? Open to college students to enter
(everyone except professional garden
designers) could this fit with curriculum
work? http//www.rhs.org.uk/news/olympicpark.a
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Future Competitions and Programmes?
Keep an eye out for future opportunities for your
college and students with the Podium
newsletter! Whats next?


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A Victory Podium?

• A Victory Podium is only 22 inches high but the
  view from the top stretches forever. (Courtesy
  of VANOC)
• Much more work to be done to place the FE and HE
  Sectors on top of that podium in 2012 and beyond.
• What role can you play at your college?
• What view to we want to see from the top of the
  podium?

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Contact Podium
Gareth Smith - Head E gareth_at_podium.ac.uk T
0207 664 4838 Charlotte Foster - Communications
Manager E charlotte_at_podium.ac.uk T 0207 664
4873 Kate Filochowski Culture, Sport and
Volunteering Coordinator E kate_at_podium.ac.uk 0207
664 4837 Visit the new website at
www.podium.ac.uk