Partners like Siemens Mobility have been able to measure the impact of our partnerships, creating over £155,000 of social value around their rail village in Goole.

Pupils like Rebecca Young have been able to change the world with their ideas, with her work on the Solar Powered Heated Blanket landing her on TIME’s 2025 Girl’s of the Year List

Young people like Elliot have shown that being a teenager with an idea can lead to an apprenticeship in industry, showcasing practical career paths pupils can follow.

The Primary Engineer Programmes provide meaningful links between engineering, technology and education through training primary school teachers, enabling them to deliver an engineering and technology project with pupils in the classroom. Engineering and technology professionals enhance the learning by raising awareness of the breadth of opportunities and careers that the world of engineering and technology offers with both pupils and teachers. The programme is currently delivered in 3 versions, each using the same underlying principles of developing skills but which allow a variety of outcomes. 

Complementing the Primary Engineer Programmes is our annual, UK-wide competition, Leaders Award, which is open to both primary and secondary pupils asking them “If you were an engineer, what would you do?”. Pupils interview engineering and technology professionals, identify a problem in the world and design an innovative solution. Tens of thousands of pupils take part each year, all recognised with a certificate graded by engineers and the gender split of pupil entries is 50/50. Pupils are celebrated at our regional awards events and exhibitions, with designs being selected to be developed into prototypes by our university and industry partners.   

Our other national competition is STATWARS: Climate Change Challenge, a data project that empowers and educates pupils aged 8–14 to tackle climate change using data they capture themselves. Pupils use our carbon footprint calculator to calculate their carbon footprint, then use this data to identify three changes they can make in their daily lives to help tackle climate change. 

Schools host in-class debates on their work and submit one team per class, with every pupil receiving a graded certificate and up to £5000 worth of eco-prizes available to schools who take part.