A hands-on, immersive campaign inspiring learners to discover the exciting world of robotics. Fully aligned with Design & Technology, Computing, Science, and Literacy.

#EngEdChallenge

Engineering Educates Robotics Challenge

Brand new resources now live!

Download for 2025-2026

Brand new resources now live! Download for 2025-2026

Inspire your 7-14 year olds to think like engineers, finding solutions to real-world problems and challenges.

The Engineering Educates: Robotics Challenge is developed in partnership with UK-RAS Network; a collaboration of world-leading robotics researchers and innovators, and builds on the success of the award-winning Farmvention Challenge.

What is Engineering Educates?

  • A non-competitive and inclusive campaign for 7-14 year olds

  • A series of 8 challenges co-created with teachers

  • Full teacher notes and resources, aligned to curriculum objectives in Design & Technology, Science, Computing and Literacy

  • Inspiring practical work using the Engineering Design Cycle

  • Professional development delivered by subject experts and teacher specialists

  • Careers resources profiling diverse engineers and innovators.

All resources are designed for 7-14 year olds, and are aligned to the National Curriculum for England and the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence. Each challenge embeds the Engineering Design Cycle and use and apply learning in Design & Technology, Computing, Science and Literacy. Download the curriculum links to each challenge, from the Challenge webpages.

‘Share Your Voice’ bursaries

Try out a challenge and tell us what you think!
Select any EngEd Robotics Challenge, put it into action and to share your thoughts. Applications will remain open for bursary allocations in Autumn 2025.

Showcase the learning

The campaign exhibition is your way to share and celebrate the learning developed through the campaign activities.

Any time during the year you can:

  • email us with a teacher or learner comment, image of a sample piece of work or prototype, using engineeringeducates@manchester.ac.uk

  • post on your school X account, tagging in @EngEdChallenge

  • mail us photographs of the learning outcomes to EngEdChallenge, SEERIH, University of Manchester, Nancy Rothwell Building, Core 1/Floor 6, Oxford Road, M13 9PL

We love celebrating what’s happening in your classroom! Share your photos, and success stories with us and we’ll showcase them in our blogs, newsletters, and on social media, shining a spotlight on your learners’ achievements.

Interested in hosting or joining an Engineering Educates Exhibition, our celebratory virtual or in-person event for teachers and students? We’ll help you make it happen—just get in touch!