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Howden and Primary Engineer are back for 2024/2025!

Howden and Primary Engineer have joined forces for the third year running to bring engineering into classrooms across Scotland with Primary Engineer’s Leaders Award Competition. The competition asks pupils aged…

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Record Number Of Jersey Pupils Wow In Annual Engineering Competition

An awards and exhibition event was recently held in Highlands Great Hall, celebrating the best and most unique engineering and problem-solving ideas from pupils across Jersey schools.

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Thales engineers inspired by pupil’s engineering ideas

On 24th January we were in Reading with 15 volunteers from Thales UK, one of our National Partners, for our first grading day of the year! But what is a grading day? 🤔…

GE Aerospace Caledonian school site visit
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Pupils visit GE Aerospace Caledonian for the ‘best day’ trip ever!

Young people cannot aspire to something they didn’t know existed, so linking engineers with schools to work alongside teachers, children and pupils is a major part of our programmes and competition. On Wednesday 13th of…

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Howden has renewed its partnership with Primary Engineer after a successful year of bringing engineering into classrooms across Scotland with the Leaders Award Competition

Primary Engineer is an educational not-for-profit organisation founded in 2005 which aims to engage both primary and secondary school pupils and teachers with the vast and inspirational world of engineering…

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Prize-winning pupils from across London applauded at Primary Engineer exhibition and award ceremony hosted by Kingston University

The annual ‘If you were an engineer, what would you do?’ competition and exhibition has been held at Kingston University’s Town House, seeing school pupils from across London honoured for…

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Primary Engineer and Canterbury Christ Church University celebrates with young engineers and their award-winning ideas

School students from across the south east were welcomed to Canterbury Christ Church University recently to receive awards and celebrate their innovative engineering designs aimed at solving real-world problems. All…

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Primary Engineer awards showcase young people’s ‘ingenuity and creativity’

A power aid designed to help a person with memory function, directions, warnings, and hearing better scooped the top prize at a presentation ceremony for the Primary Engineer Leaders Award…

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School pupils impress with their award-winning engineering ideas at Edge Hill University

Primary and Secondary School children were welcomed to Edge Hill University’s campus to celebrate their inventive engineering ideas.Pupils from across Liverpool, Merseyside and Cheshire participated in the Leaders Award Competition,…

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Thales, a global leader in technology and services, is excited to announce a ground-breaking collaboration with Primary Engineer to develop an innovative plant prototype designed by a talented young student. The winning design, named “A Face for a Plant,” emerged as part of the annual UK-wide initiative, ‘If you were an engineer, what would you do?’ which encourages students to identify problems and devise creative solutions.

The “Face for a Plant” prototype revolutionises how we monitor plant health by utilising sensors strategically placed around the plant. These sensors monitor environmental conditions, such as light levels, temperature,…