Teachers get the opportunity to be introduced to an engineer and bring them into the classroom or have the class, and on occasion the whole school join one of our high-profile live interviews, giving them the opportunity to ask the questions that matter to them. This introduces them to inspiring people they can identify with, help broaden knowledge and career aspirations as well as dismantle stereotypes.

To access these interviews, please register for the competition then log into the resources area to find the link to access the interviews.

We host our live interviews on a variety of days and times but if these don’t quite align to your available, you can catch the recording on our YouTube channel a week later. We have a fantastic collection of past interviews on this channel so please make use of these as your alternative engineer engagement.

We ask all engineering professionals to provide a quote beforehand so you have an idea of what the interview topic will be plus we will provide a guide age range.

You only need to attend one interview, however if you wanted you could attend multiple. Remember, the sooner you have your engineer engagement, complete your entries in class and send them to us, the sooner we can get engineers to grade them.

Once you’ve interviewed an engineer, it’s time for your pupils to start looking at the world around them to see if there is a problem they can solve with engineering. They will create an annotated drawing of how their idea would work and write a letter to an engineer explaining why their idea should be built. Remember, all entries are read and graded by professional engineers, with every single pupil who takes part receiving a named and graded certificate. If you have any questions or need any support, please contact our Service Delivery Coordinators.