Shell NXplorers

Title:  Shell NXplorers ‘Kids’ main film

Duration: 2:00

Description: 

A profile of the Shell NXplorers programme, from the students’ perspectives

[Background music plays]

Bright, uplifting orchestral music

[A graphical set of heads animate to reveal a student who addresses the camera]

How do we start a farm in the desert?

[The first student turns to a second student and addresses her]

Any ideas?

[The second student addresses the camera]

Tough, right?

[We see the same two students in a profile shot]

So let’s look at it another way. How do people collect clean water in the desert?

[A third student joins]

Is there an easy way to collect even more?

[Two different students address the camera]

What fruits and vegetables can grow in the desert? How can we best use the energy sources available to us?

[The students continue to speak while we see them working in an NXplorers session and using research materials. They are joined by two teachers]

We imagined a future, where local communities, living in the desert are able to produce enough food to sustain themselves using resources available in their area.

[The camera pans across Shell NXplorers learning tools, pens and papers while one of the students draws more notes on a whiteboard]

We used tools from Shell’s NXplorers programme, to come up with ideas that will lead to a sustainable future.

[A student addresses the camera]

We could remove the salt from the seawater.

[Another student picks up the conversation, while we see he and another student, joined by a teacher, discuss ideas around a whiteboard]

We could grow beans, melons, peppers or even tomatoes!

[A student addresses the camera]

The desert has plenty of sunlight. What if we used solar power?

[The camera moves around a table where the NXplorers students are working, two of the students fistpump and look at a wall where animated images appear. A student continues to talk]

The NXtools opens our minds towards different ways of solving the same problems and helps us figure out which one of our ideas would work better.

[Another student picks up the conversation]

We could focus on farming plants that only need a small amount of water to grow.

[Another student picks up the conversation while the students continue to come up with ideas]

We could use solar energy to distil clean water.

[Another student picks up the conversation]

By looking at the bigger picture, we managed to better understand how everything is connected...

[Two students address the camera]

...and dig deeper into the problems

[Two different students address the camera]

We created ideas that would help us to get to the future and developed action plans to implement the change!

We worked with engineers to design a machine that uses solar energy to collect clean water from the sea.

[Another student addresses the camera]

Using the sun as a renewable energy source, we evaporated enough seawater to use in a market garden.

[As the students continue to work around the table, the dialogue continues]

NXplorers helped us develop our awareness, knowledge, and new thinking skills.

[A student addresses the camera]

It helped us understand how to better use NXtools and NXthinking to solve real life problems.

[The students continue to work through solutions and the male teacher joins them in shot, while the dialogue continues]

It helped us to develop new skills to deal with real life challenges. The local community were so impressed with our solution, that they’ve come to us with a new challenge.

[A student addresses the camera]

It is our turn to make the world a better place!

[All the students are assembled. The students jump as they shout:]

Shell NXplorers!

[Text displays]

Shell NXplorers

Shell logo appears onscreen.