An annual campaign supporting teachers in Design & Technology, Computing, Science and Literacy

#EngEdChallenge

Engineering Educate Robotics Challenge

Brand new resources now live for 2025!

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

The Engineering Educates: Robotics Challenge is developed in partnership with world-leading robotics researchers and innovators and builds on 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 cocreated 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. Click to download the curriculum links to each challenge.

Showcase the learning

The campaign exhibition is your way to share and explore the learning that springs out of 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

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

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

We can’t wait to share your successes via the blogs and newsletters, as well as using social media.
Interested to attend or organise an Engineering Educates Exhibition - a celebratory virtual or in-person event for teachers and learners? We can support there too! Just contact us.

‘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, with next funding allocations being reviewed from 28th March 2025.