Planning for World Engineering Day? Want to get high quality, purposeful making back into your classroom?
World Engineering day is on 4th March 2025!

Many teachers expressed their concerns that all children making the same wooden toy or fabric book cover wasn’t inspiring future innovators or engineers. Our solution to this… Engineering Educates Robotics Challenges!

Why not celebrate by using one of our challenges to host an engineering enrichment event? It could be within your class, with the whole school or beyond – go big or keep it small the choice is yours! And don’t forget to share your experience with us on your preferred social media platform using the hashtag #EngEdChallenge

Start by choosing your challenge from four exciting real-world robotics contexts...
Delivery robots are not the future – they are here now! Explore and design delivery robots.
95% of our oceans remain unexplored. Make mechanisms inspired by nature!
Rehab robots are transforming patient recovery. Create robots concepts for patients.
Wonder what's inside the ancient pyramids? Design robots to navigate hard-to-reach places. 
Teachers say "The lesson plans were very detailed which made the sessions easy to deliver." - Gillespie Primary School, London

Each Challenge provides teachers with:
Pupils say "The design specification sheet to really help[ed] me add detail to my design sketch.​" - Gillespie Primary School, London

And each Challenge gives pupils opportunities to:
  • Learn through contemporary, real-world contexts
  • Enhance teamworking
  • Value creativity & imagination
  • Get making in lots of different ways!
Be ready to ask - imagine - create effectively!
Need support when using the engineering design cycle?

The Engineering Educates Toolkit provides resources to build confidence in designing, making and evaluating ideas and products. Use the Toolkit to help your learners think like engineers this World Engineering Day. 
Get to grips with micro:bits
Taking part in the Re-engineering Rehab Challenge? Or simply skilling up for World Engineering Day? You might benefit from an Intro to the micro:bit online webinar from Digit<All>. Explore the basic functionality of the micro:bit and develop your first applications.

6th Mar 2025, 16:00 – 17:00. Book your place here.
Still time to snap up a 'Share Your Voice' bursary!
Our Valentine's Day gift to you

£250 bursary for your school
Use and review your learners’ experiences.
Be profiled on the website.

Get involved:
Deadline extended to 14th February: https://tinyurl.com/EngEdSYVbursaries
Take part in Re-engineering Rehab or The Secrets Within this term.
Share Your Voice with the Eng Ed team!
Find out more
Apply here
We'll keep it coming in 2025-2026 with the next two Challenges dropping in Autumn 2025!
Engineering Educates: Robotics Challenge is brought to you by SEERIH at The University of Manchester and the UK-RAS Network as part of an EPSRC Programme Grant. We are delighted to link teachers with professional researchers and academics working in cutting-edge robotics. A fantastic way to inspire learners to apply curriculum learning.
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