Compleating your Challenge Award

This guide is here to help you complete your challenge award. 

Use what you find helpful. Ignore what isn’t. 

A challenge award is your chance to choose something that matters to you, take it on in your own way, and show what you did and what you learned. 

This guide can help you: 

• plan something you actually care about 
• get started when you’re not sure what to do 
• keep track of what you’ve done 
• capture moments, not perfect writing 
• notice what you’ve learned along the way 

What counts 

What matters is that your challenge shows something real and meaningful. 

That might include: 

• trying something new 
• learning something 
• bringing people together 
• dealing with problems 
• creating something 
• making a difference 
• reflecting on what happened 

Your challenge will show some of these more than others – that's expected and will change person to person. 

Do it your way 

There isn’t one right way to complete a challenge award. You should pick a challenge that interests YOU and complete it in a way that works for you. This means everyone’s challenges will look different and how they present and track their challenges will look different too. 

Write loads. Write hardly anything. Sketch, stick, screenshot, scribble. Do what you want, how you want to do it. 

You don’t have to do things in a set order, and one activity can count for more than one area. 

Aspects of your challenge 

Over the challenge, your experiences should show you’ve: 

You do not have to do these in a set order, and your challenge might show some of them more than others.
At the end of each challenge, you’ll also need to reflect on how it went and what you learnt. This can sometimes feel daunting or maybe boring, but reflecting on what you’ve done will show you how much you’ve learnt, accomplished and grown!