Could your school be a Faraday Challenge Host School?

Apply now to host an IET Faraday Challenge Day

The Faraday Challenge Days are one-day activities, designed for teams of six students aged 12-13 years, delivered in your school by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). The days give students the opportunity to research, design and build prototype solutions to genuinely tough engineering problems.

The IET is running 45 Challenge Days during the 2011/12 academic year, starting in September 2011, with the winners of each event winning prizes for themselves and their school. The top three teams from across the UK will get an all expenses paid trip to the National Final in London in June 2012 to compete for a cash prize of up £1000 for their school.

Two ways to take part

Each host school needs a school hall or large classroom for the day, and six teams of six students to take part (36 students in total). Schools can apply to host in either of the following two ways:

Completely free

The IET is one of the world's leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. It is through its charitable arm that the Institute is able to provide the IET Faraday Challenge Days at no charge to UK schools.

The Challenge aims to reach schools in as many regions across the UK as they can, and the deadline for applications varies for each region, details can be found in the application form which is downloadable from the Faraday website. All completed application forms need to be sent to faraday@theiet.org.