Competition

Cambridge University Press has launched a global competition to find four presenters for its new YouTube channel. The channel – ‘Learn English with Cambridge’- will support English language learners by teaching them how to use English in the real world. Rupert Daniels, Global Marketing Director at Cambridge University Press, said: …

FIRST® LEGO® League, a global science and technology challenge, is now open to entry for teams of young people from across Cambridgeshire. This year’s theme is INTO ORBIT and teams of 9 – 16 year olds will be taken on an ‘out of this world’ experience as they explore space-themed …

Birmingham-based Innovating Minds CIC has been shortlisted for the 2018 NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards in the Entrepreneur for Good of the Year award. Innovating Minds CIC beat off some tough competition in order to make the regional shortlist, with a record number of businesses entering the awards nationally across …

Students from Staffordshire University managed a clean sweep in the inaugural Student Stationery Design Awards, managing to win all three placements – with entries from one hardworking student being chosen twice! Leanne Haycock, a 3rd year student in Graphic Design, created entries for both the Portico Design and Paperchase design …

With a shocking 170 operations a day in the UK to remove rotten teeth in children, to engage kids with brushing, the Aquafresh Inventors Academy wanted to get children involved in making brush time more fun. The winning invention came from Giselle, 10 from Kennington, London, called ‘Brushing Explosions’. Giselle’s …

FXP Festival is working with Cambridge-headquartered global technology leader, Arm, to deliver an Extended Challenge for students in Year 9 who participated in this year’s FXP, a games design and development competition which took place at Cambridge Regional College, 7 – 9 July 2018. FXP Festival is linked to the …

Children aged five to 15 across the country are being invited to enter the Dragonfly Tea Story Competition, with book vouchers and a prize-giving at one of the UK’s leading book festivals on offer to the winners. 2018 marks the fourth consecutive year the Berkshire-based tea company has teamed up …

Pupils at Rosh Pinah Primary School in Edgware received £5,000 RRP worth of books after topping the leaderboard in a competition that saw 200,000 children across the UK try to read as much as possible over a month. Councillor Brian Gordon and Councillor Sarah Wardle joined the celebration in the …

The Engineering Development Trust (EDT) has announced that Bearsden Academy from East Dunbartonshire, has won the national final of its annual 10-week Go4SET national competition. The competition, involving S2 pupils from 150 schools and 900 pupils from across Scotland, is designed to encourage more children into careers in science, technology, …

Epsom College is in a race to become the first team to sail an autonomous boat across the Atlantic. The global challenge, which has been running since 2010, features teams from Universities, Engineering Institutions and the US and French Naval Academies, but Epsom College stands alone as the only school …