Young Engineers Award

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The STEPS Young Engineers Award encourages primary school students, in 3^rd and 4^th class, to develop creative engineering projects to help or improve their local community.

Children are tasked with identifying a problem and work in teams to come up with a creative engineering solution. They are encouraged to focus on sustainability when creating their solution.

As part of the STEPS Young Engineers Award, schools are also encouraged to invite local engineers, or sign up for a STEPS Volunteer Engineer, to visit their classroom. During this visit, children can showcase their projects and learn about the important role of engineering in the community.

Information for teachers

The STEPS Young Engineers Award is now open for registration! Please click the link below to sign up and register for this year’s competition.

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Congratulations to the winners of the STEPS Young Engineers Award 2023-2024: The Famous Five team from St. Mary’s Collinstown, Co. Westmeath with their ‘Lake Cleaner 10,000’ project. A big well done also to the runners up team: The Magneticotrons team from Bushypark National School in Co. Galway with their ‘Magnetic Bin’ project.

Information for volunteers

The STEPS Young Engineers Award offers teachers the opportunity to invite a STEPS Volunteer Engineer to their class. STEPS Engineers listen to the students’ presentations, give some encouraging feedback and tell the children about their life as an engineer.

It is a very exciting day for the children!

To sign up for one of our training and information sessions, please select a date and time from the list below. Please note, these training sessions are for engineers, aged 18 or over, only.