In the 30 years that the CREST Awards have been
running, we've
witnessed how doing practical, creative science and technology projects have increased
students» enjoyment and understanding of science, but now we're proud to share evidence of the CREST Awards scheme's impact on academic attainment, too.
For example, Terrasi and de Galarce (2017) describe a case of PTSD in a 2nd - grade
student who previously got along well with his friends and was succeeding in school but who, after
witnessing his mother being hit in the arm by a stray bullet while they were walking together in their neighborhood, became «defiant with his teachers... often hiding under a desk, knocking things down, hitting other children, and
running out of the classroom» (p. 35).