As part of its annual Collaborate To Innovate awards initiative The Engineer is on the look-out for the UK’s most inspiring and effective school engineering projects.
Set up to both celebrate the achievements the next generation of engineers and to champion great examples of industry outreach, The Engineer’s Young Innovator prize, which is supported by Engineering UK, is open to schools, individual pupils, industry partners, and STEM organisations.
Entries may refer to either a specific stand-alone project or a longer-term collaborative relationship aimed at inspiring students about the world of engineering.
Commenting on the award The Engineer’s editor Jon Excell said: “Inspiring the next generation of engineers remains one of industry’s most pressing concerns, and engagement with school-age students is widely viewed as one of the most important and effective ways of achieving this. This prize will spotlight some of the UK’s most successful examples of this engagement in action.”
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The Young Innovator trophy is part of The Engineer’s Collaborate To Innovate Awards competition, which aims to uncover and celebrate the UK’s most innovative collaborative engineering projects.
The competition will also be awarding prizes to innovative and collaborative projects across areas including automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, health, energy, data and connectivity, and defence.
A team of expert judges will select winners in each category. These will be announced at an exclusive VIP reception in London on 6th November.
C2I 2019 is supported by organisations including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Engineering UK, and Frazer Nash Consultancy.
The deadline for entries is 10th May, 2019.
I would like to suggest that one of the most important aspects of the future of ‘our’ profession is to develop in children the concept that we ourselves, the items we attach to our selves (clothing and shoes particularly), the items all around the home, school, offices, transport (and transport itself) games, sports -ie all the areas I used to use to demonstrate the reality of mathematics..are excellent examples of Engineering: ie Engineering is not something which takes place in ‘factories’ or on ‘site’ :but is literally all around us and our daily waking lives: offering examples that are so ordinary, its amazing! Add the Blue Peter aspect -thinks seen on the ‘box’ and surely almost every aspects of the broad Church which is our profession is covered.
I remember my Maths lecturer at college who explained calculus as a way to get maximum beans in minimum can. Quite apt don’t you think?
Also , bringing engineering to the forefront and engaging children with ” Do you know what goes into making this simple ballpoint pen?”
A well used item in every schoolchilds day, but encompasses many aspects of engineering that is spread across many disciplines including literally everything in every day life, probably bar none!