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 will take place from Saturday, 1 - Friday, 7 March 2025.
How your secondary school can get involved in Engineers Week:
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Join the Dream Space Team for an exciting LIVE virtual event exploring the vast and ever-evolving world of engineering.
Students will hear from engineers working across a range of different industries, roles, and specialisations as they share their journeys, challenges, and the paths that led them to where they are today. With a live Q&A and hands-on STEM and coding activities requiring no prior experience or special materials, students will see first-hand how engineering is at the heart of innovation, creativity, and real-world problem-solving.
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The documentary focuses on the critical value of our most precious natural resource and explores the ongoing threats to its future. It seeks to educate and inform; with a range of contributions from engineers, scientists and consumers. It explores the development and current state of Ireland’s public water network, with a unique perspective on the ongoing national project to upgrade the country’s drinking water supply and wastewater treatment, and the role we all have to play in conservation.
Visit Uisce Éireann's website to access. Access the YouTube playlist.
Uisce Éireann has additional resources available that are relevant to the documentary and Water education available on www.water.ie/education, including The Story of Water Activity Booklet, videos, quizzes and worksheets and more. Links to An Taisce and Scoilnet resources are also available.
Uisce Éireann’s educational resources are available on Scoilnet, to help students learn all about water in a fun and engaging way with videos, fun activities, and support material. Check out the resources at Scoilnet resources.
How would you build a new railway to join the residents of the town to a city? Your task is to choose the best route through all the obstacles, thinking about how your choice will affect the company, environment and community.
Play the new online game here!
The ‘Role Models in pSTEM: You can be what you can see’ project was created to highlight positive role models for young women in the subjects of physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering.
Meet Sharon McManus
Sharon McManus is an engineer officer of Commandant rank in the Irish Defence Forces. After joining the army in 1996 and completing an army officer cadetship, she completed a BEng in NUIG in Civil Engineering. She is currently on a Masters programme in the defence forces, studying for an MA in Leadership and Management in Defence. This qualification will allow her to compete for promotion to potentially become the first Lieutenant Colonel in any of the defence force services. Her work has taken her far and wide with overseas missions to Liberia and Kosovo in 2006, Chad in 2010 and most recently to Lebanon.
Watch Sharon's Video here. For more information, visit the website.
STEPS Engineers Week has secondary school engineering shows that teachers can screen for students in classrooms. Those registered will receive a link to view the show and can stream it in your classroom during Engineers Week. The shows can be viewed on any device that normally streams videos.
Read our show descriptions below.
Celebrity scientist Mark the Science Guy explores sports and engineering.
Come and join Scientific Sue for fun at STEPS Engineers Week! Watch Scientific Sue's prerecorded engineering show from the comfort of your home on any device that normally streams videos.
Explore the wonders of electricity and the many inventions that power our world. Join Mark the Science Guy and Ali Knight as they investigate one of nature's most dangerous and exciting phenomenon, Lightning!
As an activity organiser it is critical for you to evaluate your STEPS Engineers Week experiences, so we can analyse the positive impact of all your hard work. We will email you our feedback surveys in advance of Engineers Week.