Your November update from Engineering Educates 🍂
The English Curriculum and Assessment Review highlights an urgent need to modernise Design and Technology education, with a strong emphasis on teacher development, curriculum relevance, real-world problem solving and cross-curricular learning, there is no better time to explore Engineering Educates.
Celebration of 2025 🎉
We are excited to share with you the final figures of engagement from 2025 and what a year it was! Thanks to all our partners and everyone who has taken part in an #EngEdChallenge.
...What's coming in 2026? The final 2 challenges are ready to launch!
The EngEd team are hard at work putting the finishing touches to the final set of robotics challenges, launching in January 2026. Their titles? They’re still top secret but expect a real-world context that provides the opportunity for creative problem solving, systems thinking and prototyping.

Which problems will you be solving, which area of robotics engineering will you be focusing on and which engineers and their work will we shine a spotlight on this time?
Engineering Educates Exhibition 2026
Register Interest
We will be hosting our Engineering Educates Exhibition on 7th July 2026, 12:30 – 15:30, here at The University of Manchester.

Complete one of the #EngEdChallenges in your setting and showcase your design specifications, annotated sketches and protypes. Discuss the questions you asked to better understand the problem and the engineering habits of mind you developed with other young people and professionals from the engineering sector.
Tomorrow’s Engineers Week: 10–14 November 2025 
This week is Tomorrow’s Engineers Week.

How have you incorporated the Engineering Design Cycle and developed Engineering Habits of Mind with your pupils?

Don’t forget to tag us in when celebrating your pupils’ successes on social media #EngEdChallenge @EngEdChallenge
School Spotlight:
Wirral Grammar School for Boys
Read on to find out how one secondary school took part in the Re-engineering Rehab Challenge as part of an extra-curricular robotics club...
Delivered over three lunchtime sessions, Mrs Biggins, Head of Computer Science & IT, supported a group of 13–14-year-olds to design creative robotic solutions to facilitate rehabilitation. 

From a digital guitar to a spinal rehabilitator, the students began by focusing on the user needs, asking more questions to help better understand the problem.
Using the scaffolded approach of the Design Specification, they considered the purpose, key features, materials and mechanisms for their designs before making detailed annotated sketches and coding basic programmes. Each group also presented their work in the form of a poster or PowerPoint presentation.
"The EngEd challenge, Re-engineering Rehab was really easy to use, just click and go! The instructions were clear, and the variety of resources ensured that students were engaged throughout. The sessions were broken down into manageable chunks which allowed for a good pace, further supporting engagement. There were lots of opportunities for collaboration and discussion and I am looking forward to using more of these challenges in the future."
Mrs K. Biggins.
Take Action:
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Friends of #EngEdChallenge
I’m an Engineer Get Me Out of Here have designated a special zone for Engineering Educates: Robotics Challenge, with robotics engineers ready and waiting for any schools who book a chat. Don't wait to connect your students.

🤖 👇 Connect your students with robotics engineers 👇🤖 
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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