Nominations are now open for the 2025 Royal Academy of Engineering Awards and Medal

Deadline: 4pm, Tuesday 11 February 2025.

• Colin Campbell Mitchell Award

• Major Project Award for Sustainability

• RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year

• Rooke Award

• Sir Frank Whittle Medal

Academy awards and medals celebrate the very best of engineering from every part of the profession. Celebrating engineering excellence is key to demonstrating the relevance of engineering to society today and inspiring the next generation of engineers.

We would value your help and support in encouraging nominations from across your networks from the full breadth of the engineering community. The opportunity to nominate is open to anyone who would like to highlight contributions to engineering excellence. We particularly welcome nominators and nominees from women and other groups who are currently under-represented across engineering.

Further information on each award can be found at the end of this email as well as on the Royal Academy of Engineering website.

The closing date for all award nominations is 4pm on Tuesday 11 February 2025.

If you have any queries about any of the awards or the nominations process, please contact the Awards team: awards@raeng.org.uk.

Energy Quest is back - Put students at the heart of the action with Energy Quest

Designed for secondary students aged 11 to 14, this free interactive workshop embeds learning about energy sources and energy transfer, and sees students put themselves in the shoes of engineers to design a solution to power a mobile phone.They are challenged to save the day as they meet real engineers and are supported to explore their own skills sets as they learn to use the engineering design process.

Sound like fun? It's more than that. Energy Quest is:

-          Curriculum linked, covering energy sources and energy transfer

-          An easy way to deliver real world context STEM 

-          A way to develop aspirations, teamworking and resilience

-          Inspirational and a brilliant opportunity to introduce students to relatable role models
Energy Quest is a 2-hour workshop, which can be delivered twice in one day at your school by a trained facilitator. Delivery will also include teacher CPD
It can be requested for a group of up to 30 students.Please email to book or for more information. You can find the Energy Quest website here

Sign up to  volunteer at the  FIRST® LEGO® LEAGUE 2024 – 25 SUBMERGED season, we are very excited to start working alongside you.

Contact cerian.angharad@see-science.co.uk  to volunteer during the 2024- 25 season. in Wales or if you are interested, please do sign up here.

This season, children will learn about how and why people explore the oceans. Our discoveries beneath the ocean surface teach us how this complex ecosystem supports a healthy future for the plants and animals that live there.. We are really excited to see all of the amazing and creative ideas that we know will be produced this season. We will be hosting 4 competitions in Wales
Ebbw Vale: 27 March 2025
Cardiff: 13 March 2025
Pembrokeshire: 22 March 2025
Merthyr Tydfil: 11 March 2025
If you would like more information please contact enquiries@see-science.co.uk

Schools can apply for FIRST LEGO League Funding Packages. More information here