STEPS Engineers Week, run by the Engineers Ireland STEPS programme, gives children the opportunity to discover engineering, facilitated by their teachers, parents and local community. STEPS Engineers Week 2023 will take place from Saturday, 4 - Friday, 10 March 2023.
STEPS are here to support you along your journey to planning your activity. This page contains all the information that you need to get involved with STEPS Engineers Week 2023.
Support libraries to plan and carry out their own engineering activities.
Help empower libraries to communicate effectively about engineering.
STEPS Engineers Week activities should show off what engineering is to young people. This is the only requirement from STEPS – otherwise the sky is the limit!
Do you need any activity idea? STEPS has collated a list of activities that you might like to carry out. These can be found below. If you have another engineering activity in mind, that’s great! Please do feel free to go ahead with your own activity. You can carry out the same activity each year, you are under no obligation from STEPS to come up with something new each year.
These activities will be available to download for free from the end of January 2023 for all registered participants.
The STEPS team has selected a list of books about engineering and STEM.
Using the STEM Stories Reading List, create a book display.
Display a STEPS Engineers Week Reading List Poster on your notice board, window etc.
STEPS have a number of printable activity sheets that libraries can print for children to carry out in the library, or to take away and complete at home. Visit the Primary Section or Secondary Section of the Website for printable resources.
The Engineers Ireland STEPS team have paired up with Jasmine Florentine, author & project illustrator of Hex Allen and the Clanksmiths, to share Hex Allen's Guide to Defeating Monsters! Join Hex and her friends as they use science and engineering to get out of a bunch of scrapes, and make some fantastic gadgets in this special and exciting activity. Download now.
Jasmine has created a video demonstration especially for STEPS Engineers Week! Watch now on the Engineers Ireland YouTube Channel.
A picture book about an unnamed girl and her very best friend, who happens to be a dog. The girl has an idea to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing!
STEPS will provide exclusive access to the short animated movie about the book for libraries to show. Please register your interest to receive this in the lead up to STEPS Engineers Week, available exclusively to registered libraries. Register your interest here.
Download an accompanying activity sheet here.
STEPS have a number of printable colouring sheets and spotter sheets available to download, both in English and Irish. Run a colouring competition for children in your library.
Register your participation to access free supports listed above.
Register your activity for these five key benefits:
Now is the time to shout about your STEPS Engineers Week Activity and communicate your success! Share an update of the activity with your network. Write a blog post for your website, create a video, update social media, circulate an internal email - all to showcase your involvement in STEPS Engineers Week.
Make sure to tag us and use our special hashtag #STEPSEngineersWeek and tag us:
Registered activity organisers will receive a Digital Promotional Pack to help promote your activities. The pack includes:
Digital promotional packs will be made available to registered organisers in the lead up to STEPS Engineers Week 2023.
As an activity organiser it is critical for you and your students to evaluate your STEPS Engineers Week experiences, so we can analyse the positive impact of all your hard work. You can do this via our online evaluation or via a printable evaluation sheet.
Please share the survey and have your students/attendees share their STEPS Engineers Week experience. Taking part in the survey lets participants know what they would like to see for future STEPS programmes. The survey is confidential and takes less than five minutes to complete.