Meet An Engineer: Live Engineer Interview Series returns for 2025-26
Get ready to inspire your pupils, our popular live engineer interviews are back for the 2025-26 school year!
“If you were an engineer, what would you do?” is a free UK-wide competition open to all pupils aged 3-19, participating UK schools and home educators have the fantastic opportunity to meet an inspiring engineer with our live engineer interview series. Your pupils can ask the questions that matter to them, help broaden knowledge and career aspirations as well as dismantle stereotypes.
- Format: Engineer presentation and then Q&A
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Dates: Variety of dates from September-March
- Where: Microsoft Teams
Learn more: https://leadersaward.com/meet-an-engineer/
Meet Our First Guest 👋
Mark your calendars for Thursday 25th September at 1pm!
This September marks the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a historic event that helped connect our country. To honour this milestone, we’re starting our live interview series talking about the railways with Carys, a Safety Audit Manager at Great Western Railways.
Carys is a true champion for making railways safer and more accessible for everyone, volunteering hundreds of hours to mentor young people and promote STEM to girls. You may also know her from her bilingual children’s book, Rupee and Sushi Travel by Train, which makes learning about rail safety and accessibility fun and engaging for kids!
This interview would be suitable for:
- Key Stage 2/Lower Primary (ages 7-11)
- Key Stage 3/Upper Primary (ages 11-14)
Register for the interview here: https://leadersaward.com/resource-area-registration/#engineer_interviews
We’ve got more interviews coming live to your screen soon, save these Autumn Term Interviews dates and keep an eye out for further information…
- Wednesday 8th October (live at 1pm)
- Tuesday 4th November (live at 1pm)
- Friday 21st November (live at 9:30am)
- Monday 1st December (live at 1pm)
- Thursday 11th December (live at 9:30am)
Dates and details for our January-March live engineers interviews will be released later in the year.
Why take part in the competition? 🎉
Last year, over 45,000 students joined us for live interviews with engineers from all kinds of backgrounds. We spoke with a NASA scientist, a Top 50 Women in Engineering Award winner, one of the UK’s only female Railfreight Drivers, and more! These interviews are just the beginning..
Once your pupils have interviewed an engineer, they start looking at the world around them to see if there is a problem they can solve with engineering. They create an annotated drawing of how their idea would work and write a letter to an engineer explaining why their idea should be built.
All entries are read and graded by professional engineers, with every single pupil who takes part receiving a named and graded certificate! The competition culminates in exciting regional public exhibitions and award ceremonies, where shortlisted designs are displayed, and the winners and highly commended are invited on stage to receive their awards, with a surprise awarding of the judge’s favourite at the end.
Ready to bring STEM to your pupils? Register here: https://leadersaward.com/resource-area-registration/