Secondary Schools

Download this Activity Pack with everything you need to do a fun Engineers Week activity with your class. Includes an Introductory Video for students from Mark the Science Guy, worksheets and a ‘How to Prepare’ video for teachers.  

• Download the Egg-Drop Challenge Worksheet here.
• How-To prepare (for teachers) *Coming Soon*
• Introductory Video (for students) *Coming Soon* 

Download your Egg-Drop Challenge Worksheets for students here.

Mark has tips for teachers on doing the Egg Drop Challenge with a secondary school class.

Show this Introductory Video to your class before they embark on the challenge. It will explain what they need to do, the rules and give them some thoughts on how to get started. And there will be some Mark the Science Guy puns there for good measure!

This worksheet has been specifically designed to enrich the screening of the Cities of the Future film for students (available for free through registration). The worksheet will get students thinking outside the box and will ignite their natural creativity and imagination. It will demonstrate that engineering is as creative as it is mathematical. 

Download activities for Engineers Week,

• STEPS Rainbow Experiment
• STEPS TSR Electricity Resources
• STEPS Density Worksheets
• Engineers Week for Secondary School

Inviting an Engineer to your school can be a memorable and inspiring experience for students, some of whom may not have ever met an engineers or know the diverse nature of the career.

To invite an Engineer to your school, we recommend:

1. Ask a parent engineer in the school if they would be happy to visit the school. (They may not want to themselves - but could help you find someone suitable.)
2. If there are no parents, find a local Engineering Organisation to approach. You could try one of the Engineers Ireland CPD Accredited Employers, where part of their remit is to encourage their staff to engage in outreach.
3. Email the company inviting them to visit your school. Explain what format you had planned and the Child Safeguarding policies. If you like you can edit/customise the sample Email template (available here) and attach the Engineers Week flyer (available here) to it, as they may not be familiar with the campaign.
4. Don't forget to include that the Engineers Ireland STEPS Programme co-ordinates the week and can assist with resources and supports, including sample presentations, activity ideas and tips through the Engineers Week website.

Learn how Engineers take a lead role in architecting the future and the future of our planet through the STEPS Sustainable Engineering Challenge. In this worksheet students learn about the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how engineers take an active role in implementing them.

Peter’s Problem is a classroom- based activity established by the IMTA (Irish Mathematics Teachers’ Association). It is presented as a competition in which Transition Year (TY) students are challenged by a number of mathematical problem-solving questions. The problems are largely based on the Junior Cycle OL Mathematics curriculum and are solved by individuals or small groups. The problems are sent to schools in early January and all entries must be completed by 6th March 2026, the end of Engineers Week.

Links to previous years’ problems and solutions may be found on the IMTA website https://imta.ie/peters-problem/.

All participants are awarded certificates to acknowledge their participation. It is also a national competition for which a prize is awarded which is open to all. Email petersproblem2026@gmail.com to register interest.

The official Engineers Week Certificate to hand out to your students on completion of their Engineers Week challenge! 

Download here.

STEPS have produced a poster and interactive webpage for students to understand the many avenues available to become an engineer. It might surprise them! Engineering is really for everyone! Print this poster for your classroom, or find the webpage using the QR code. 

Download here.

Join us for a webinar specifically for Guidance Counsellors on engineering as a career and how to promote it to secondary school students. It will feature an engineer guest speaker, who will do a Q&A session at the end. Details coming soon. 

Visit our dedicated webpage for those who are curious about a career in engineering and how anyone can become an Engineer Like Me!

Visit An Engineer Like Me here.

The campaign has launched with An Engineer Like Me, a full-colour national magazine designed to attract young people into engineering by highlighting engineering role models, showcasing diverse career paths, and illustrating the different routes into the profession. 

View magazine here.

STEPS turned 25 years in 2025! To celebrate this achievement, we published a position paper ‘From Awareness to Action: STEPS at 25 advocating for engineering outreach’, which examines the pivotal role of early engineering and STEM education and outreach.

View paper here.

Cities of the Future is the 2024 IMAX feature film, narrated by John Krasinski.

Imagine stepping into the future and discovering that renewable energy is our primary power source, space-based solar power provides solar energy 24 hours a day, everything is recycled, and you travel in individualised pods that run on little or no energy. This isn’t science fiction. Engineers are making plans for a sustainable world right now.

Access to Cities of the Future is through the registration link below.

Use the Cities of the Future worksheet to enrich your students experience watching the Cities of the Future film.

Download this resource here.

Register for Cities of the Future here.

STEPS ran an Information Session Week in January with Engineers Week Expert Guest Speakers. Dr. Karen Mooney from the Science Room was the Guest Speaker for the secondary schools session. She discussed many hand-on engineering activities for secondary school students, from easy to elaborate.

Download the slides to access the information. All of the resources mentioned are in the Science Room's pop-up above.

• Engineers Week for Secondary School - Dr. Karen Mooney
• STEPS Engineers Week Info Session - For Secondary School

If you would like the recording of this session please Contact STEPS.

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Download these resources below;

• STEPS Engineers Week Cogs Deboss
• STEPS Engineers Week Cogs Emboss
• STEPS Engineers Week Tools Deboss
• STEPS Engineers Week Tools Emboss

Cities of the Future is the 2024 IMAX feature film, narrated by John Krasinski.

Imagine stepping into the future and discovering that renewable energy is our primary power source, space-based solar power provides solar energy 24 hours a day, everything is recycled, and you travel in individualised pods that run on little or no energy. This isn’t science fiction. Engineers are making plans for a sustainable world right now.

Access to Cities of the Future is through the registration link below.

Use the Cities of the Future worksheet to enrich your students experience watching the Cities of the Future film.

Download this resource here.

Register for Cities of the Future here.

Exclusively licenced in Ireland for Engineers Week from 28th February – 5th March 

This is a TV Series for 10 – 14 year olds. Learn about the world of STEM on Mission Unstoppable with Miranda Cosgrove! She also makes science jokes, periodically. 

Registration link for free access to this content is coming soon.

Join Mark on a wild engineering ride through storms and tornadoes as he discovers how important engineers are in monitoring and managing the weather.

Register here

Join the Dream Space team in collaboration with Engineers Ireland’s STEPS Engineers Week for a live post-primary event that opens up the many paths into engineering. Aimed at junior-cycle and transition year students, this session will explore how engineers help to design technology, tackle global challenges and engineer the world of tomorrow.

This is a live online event at 10.30am - 12pm on Tuesday 3rd March

Register here

Learn about life as a Structural Engineer through the eyes and experiences of Graduate Engineer Anna Juda.

Learn about life as a Civil Engineer through the eyes and experiences of Harrison Jones.

Four award winning Biomedical Engineering Students from University of Limerick chat with STEPS. 

Visit our dedicated webpage for those who are curious about a career in engineering and how anyone can become an Engineer Like Me! 

View resource here.

The campaign has launched with An Engineer Like Me, a full-colour national magazine designed to attract young people into engineering by highlighting engineering role models, showcasing diverse career paths, and illustrating the different routes into the profession. 

View resource here.

Read about how Dr. Niamh Shaw became an Engineer and what she loves about it in the ‘An Engineer Like Me’ Magazine.

View resource here.

Read about how Brian McManus became an Engineer and what she loves about it in the ‘An Engineer Like Me’ Magazine.

View resource here.

Engineering students from across the country share their university experiences with host Dusty Rhodes. 

View resource here.

Engineering graduates from a variety of backgrounds and specialities discuss their career so far and what has shaped their engineering careers so far from school through university.

View resource here.

Learn about life as a Structural Engineer through the eyes and experiences of Graduate Engineer Anna Juda.

Learn about life as a Civil Engineer through the eyes and experiences of Harrison Jones. 

Four award winning Biomedical Engineering Students from University of Limerick chat with STEPS.