Information for volunteers

STEPS Engineers Ireland

Customisable Presentation

This is the presentation template for you to use during your visit. Please replace the photos with your own and fill in the information to make it personal to you.

Download

Resources for STEPS Young Engineers Award school visit

To download an image, just click on the poster you like and it will open in a new page. From here, you can save the photo to your device.

Engineering is Everywhere - Sport and Recreation

Take-Home Activity for the class

This is an activity that you can send to the teacher by email before (or after) the visit in PDF form, for them to print off for the class. They can colour in these engineering drawings and then cut, fold and glue the paper into the different 3D shapes as a reminder to the students of the building blocks of engineering and maths.

STEPS Young Engineers Award - Communication Tips

We have compiled the top 10 tips from our volunteer engineers for presenting to young students on a STEPS school visit:

STEPS

STEPS Engineer Workshop – slides

The slides from the STEPS Volunteer Engineer Training Workshop are available here for you, if you would like a recap.

Download here

Volunteer training information

Volunteer Engineer Training 1: How to get your message across in the classroom
Volunteer Engineer Training 2: How to keep the class interested
Volunteer Engineer Training 3: Be a role model-be yourself!

Volunteer policies

STEPS Volunteer Code of Behaviour

STEPS Volunteer Policy

STEPS Child Safeguarding Statement

STEPS Volunteer Engineer Role Description

STEPS Equality and Diversity Statement

The Engineers Ireland STEPS programme is committed to the fair treatment of our volunteers, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependants, age, physical/mental disability or offending background (as long as this does not pose risk to children, young people, or vulnerable adults). We aim to encourage diversity amongst our volunteer engineers to ensure that they are representative of all sections of society and our surrounding community. We endeavour to ensure that each volunteer feels respected and valued.

GettyImages-1446488662

What are the students working on for the STEPS Young Engineers Award?

You may wonder what the students are working on for the STEPS Young Engineers Award.

The idea is that they come up with an engineering project that will improve their community or someone’s quality of life living in their community.

To enter the competition they must submit a completed STEPS Project Book. This comprises of four worksheets.

1.   Think of an idea
2.   Design it and draw it on an engineer’s drawing
3.   Build the prototype
4.   Engineers Report (lessons learned)

Before your visit, they should have completed the four steps and have a presentation on their project ready to showcase for you.

The Project Book is aligned with the curriculum for 3rd and 4th class. They will learn about some engineering principles like properties of materials and caring for the environment. They are encouraged to incorporate Maths even in a limited way, like including dimensions.

Have a look through the STEPS Project Book, if you wish, before your visit!