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IET Faraday® Challenge Days

A free annual STEM competition activity day with a real-world challenge for pupils aged 12 - 13 years.

The IET Faraday® Challenge is an annual competition of STEM activity days, which are designed to be cross curricular and cover hands on activities spanning science, technology, engineering and maths.

Each Challenge Day will be set up and run by our team of STEM professionals at no charge to UK schools.

Enter your school

Put your school forward for one of our exciting STEM activity days aimed at 12-13 year olds.

This annual competition consists of free, STEM activity days that introduce students to engineering, inspire them to consider engineering as a career and help to develop their practical and employability skills.

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Current season

Each Challenge Day provides six teams of six students, aged 12 to 13 years (England and Wales Year 8, Scotland S1/S2, Northern Ireland Year 9), with the opportunity to research, design and make prototype solutions to real-world engineering problems.

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League tables

View the league tables for the 2024 - 2025 season.

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Our supporters

During the 2024-2025 season, we’ll be delivering 309 IET Faraday® Challenge Days around the UK.

The growth in our Challenge Days programme is due to the continued, fantastic support from our sponsors and donors.

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Delivery partners

View our 2024-2025 season IET Faraday® regional delivery partners.

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Previous winners

Celebrating the previous winners of IET Faraday® Challenge Days.

View our previous winners.

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