'Give Yourself The Edge' Essay Competition 2019
This year to support INWED the WES Young Members’ Board (YMB) is running the second Give Yourself the Edge Essay Competition with the theme of 100 Years of Inventions.
This year to support INWED the WES Young Members’ Board (YMB) is running the second Give Yourself the Edge Essay Competition with the theme of 100 Years of Inventions.
We are delighted to announce the winner of this year's essay competition!
Congratulations to...
Alaa - Aged 11, from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia!
Click here to read the winning entry
Due to the high level of entries this year, we would like to also congratulate our highly commended entries;
Emily - Aged 14, Stanchester Academy, UK
Daniel - Aged 12, Stanchester Academy, UK
Amy - Aged 14, Roseberry School, UK
Many thanks to our WES' Young Members Board who took on the hard job of judging the competition. They were extremely impressed by the high quality of entries from our future engineers!
Many thanks to all the children who entered the competition - we hope to see you for INWED 2020!
*Essays will be published on the WES/ INWED Website
The main purpose of this competition is to provide senior school students with something that can help Give Them the Edge when completing their university, college, apprenticeship or job applications. Further to this it will hopefully get them thinking about engineering and if they want to pursue it as a career.
The competition is open to all genders between 11-18 years old
Every applicant shall be given recognition for their entry which they can use as evidence of their participation. There will also be a number of Highly Commended certificates issued.
Download essay competition poster here.
Draw an Engineer Competition 2019
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The INWED Draw an Engineer competition 2019 received over 260 entries from countries across the globe including UK, Hungary, Japan, India and Australia! We are delighted to announce the 2019 winners are: Key Stage 1: 1st – Isa (Age 6) Kirchhörder, Germany 2nd–Lizzie (Age 5) Bradley Stoke Community School, UK 3rd – Amelia (Age 5) Charfield Primary School, UK Key Stage 2: 1st – Medhansh (Age 7) Maxfort School, India 2nd – Zachary (Age 8) : St John’s Brignorth 3rd – Amelie (Age 7) Groveside Primary, UK *** A huge congratulations to all our winners! *** The competition aimed at children 5 -11, proved to be a great way to get school children involved in International Women in Engineering Day 2019! A big thank you to our WES' Young Members Board who help to organise and judge the competition. They reported an extremely high level of entries in both age groups and thoroughly enjoyed looking at all drawings of engineers from all entrants! Many thanks to all children who entered the competition - we hope to see you for INWED 2020! |
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Past Competitions:
Draw an Engineer Competition 2018
The INWED Draw an Engineer competition 2018 received over 120 entries from across the globe!
Aimed at children 5 -11 (in the UK in key stages 1 and 2), it proved to be a great way to get school children involved in International Women in Engineering Day 2018.
Our 2018 judging panel consisted of 3 members of WES' Young Members' Board. They all reported an extremely high level of entries in both age groups and thoroughly enjoyed looking at all drawings of engineers from all entrants
Aimed at children 5 -11 (in the UK in key stages 1 and 2), it proved to be a great way to get school children involved in International Women in Engineering Day 2018.
Our 2018 judging panel consisted of 3 members of WES' Young Members' Board. They all reported an extremely high level of entries in both age groups and thoroughly enjoyed looking at all drawings of engineers from all entrants
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We are delighted to announce the 2018 winners are noted below and their artwork is in the slideshow on the right ------->
5-7 years (KS1) Winners:
7/8-11 years (KS2) Winners:
Thank you to Abrams and Chronicle and Kate Pankhurst at Bloomsbury Publishing plc for donating the prizes for this competition. |
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Draw an Engineer Competition 2017
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As part of our celebrations for INWED17 we once again launched a fantastic competition for young engineers (3-11 years), asking them to 'Draw an Engineer' using their creativity and artistic skills.
There were just under 100 entries to the competition and the 6 winners have been chosen by Maeve Higham, Caroline Carslaw and Holly Goodwin from the Women's Engineering Society Young Members Board. Each winner will receive a copy of 'Rosie Revere, Engineer' by Andrea Beaty and every entrant will receive a participation certificate. Congratulations to our winners, whose entries can be seen on the right. To see all the fantastic entries we have had this year, please click the below links. Key Stage 1 Entries Key Stage 2 Entries |
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Draw an Engineer Competition 2016
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As part of our celebrations for NWED2016, we partnered with Butterfly Books and relaunched a great competition for young engineers (4-11 years) by asking them to 'Draw an Engineer' using their creativity and artistic skills.
Winners received a copy of 'MY MUMMY IS AN ENGINEER' courtesy of Butterfly Books and a copy of the charming book Sky Pods in Phnom Penh by Bryony Mathew. Our lucky winners were: Daisy Wagg from Caerphilly Izzy Faulker from Dorset Muad Moorcroft Towers from Abingdon Daisy O'Dyer from Hemel Hempstead |
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Herstories 2016
The winners of the 'Herstories' competition were: Jasneet Dhaliwal and Esther Pinches from Howell's School in Llandaff, with their PowerPoint presentation on Claudia Parsons.
Congratulations to you both and we hope you enjoyed your day out at RIAT with Northrop Grumman.
Congratulations to you both and we hope you enjoyed your day out at RIAT with Northrop Grumman.
