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Secondary school STEM activities

Get involved with other IET events, as well as those from some of our Education Partners to make sure your students have the best access to the full range of STEM activities available.

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IET Faraday® Challenge Days

The annual IET Faraday® Challenge is and engineering-based competition for schools. Six teams of six students, aged 12-13 years, compete against one another to see who can design, create and promote the best solution to a given challenge. All challenges are genuine, real-life engineering problems.
Go to IET Faraday® Challenge Days

FIRST® LEGO® League

FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge is a global science and technology competition for young people aged 9-16 years. Register your team to take part next season.
Go to FIRST® LEGO® League programmes
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Greenpower

The highly successful Greenpower challenge to design, build and race a single seat electric car provides young people with a unique hands-on opportunity to engage in engineering.
Go to http://www.greenpower.co.uk/

micro:bit

Find out more about the micro:bit and the teaching resources that we have created to help you plan your lessons around it with an engineering context.
Go to micro:bit

STEM at home

The Royal Academy of Engineering have put together their most practical, hands-on activities for young learners to do whilst home learning during the summer term. The activities encourage tinkering, investigation and problem finding and solving reflecting real-life engineering challenges.
Go to https://raeng.org.uk/education-and-skills/schools/stem-resources

Airbus Foundation - Discovery Space

Airbus Foundation initiatives demonstrate the exciting role aerospace is playing in making tomorrow’s dreams a reality.   
Go to Airbus Foundation - Discovery Space

F1 in Schools

The F1 in Schools Technology Challenge tasks students with using CAD/CAM software to design, analyse, manufacture, test, and race a miniature compressed air-powered F1® car.
Go to https://www.f1inschools.co.uk/
Land Rover 4x4 challenge in schools

Land Rover 4x4 in Schools Technology Challenge

Supported by Land Rover, 4x4 in Schools is a national competition where teams work to design, build, test and market a radio-controlled four wheel drive (4x4) vehicle to set specifications in order to successfully negotiate a test track.
Go to http://www.4x4inschools.co.uk/
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EDT

The EDT is the largest provider of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics experiences, delivering over 40,000 each year for young people aged 9-21 across the UK.
Go to https://www.etrust.org.uk/