Winner Reports

What K-Jo did with her prize money…

K-Jo was voted the winner of Space Zone in November 2018. Here she writes about using her £500 prize money to help a charity that supports Palestinian students in Israel, and developing a workshop to inspire them to take an interest in engineering. If you’re an engineer who’d like funding to support your own STEM outreach activities, apply now for I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here at imanengineer.org.uk/engineers As I wanted to do something slightly different to the usual thing of travelling around schools, I have searched around for charities that support education. After months of asking around, I finally came upon this wonderful charity called Galilee Foundation. They support education, development and equality within the Palestinian minority in Israel. I contacted the Galilee Foundation’s Communications & Fundraising Manager, Maha. She has been doing a remarkable job supporting me with starting up my idea. I have put together a few workshops … Continue reading

Posted on August 7, 2019 by in News, UKSAWinner, Winner Reports | Comments Off on What K-Jo did with her prize money…

What Demi Ademuyewo did with her prize money…

Demi was voted the winner of Millimetre Zone in March 2018. Here she writes about how her £500 prize money helped engage young people from underrepresented backgrounds in engineering, as well as offering interview training and CV feedback. If you’re an engineer who’d like funding to support your own STEM outreach activities, apply now for I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here at imanengineer.org.uk/engineers I donated the total amount of prize money to the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK) to raise more awareness of their Making Engineering Hot (MEH) Programme. As an active member of AFBE-UK, I wanted this programme to be very successful. The programme aims at raising the aspirations of young people from underrepresented and less advantaged backgrounds, helping them to consider STEM opportunities within their communities and the wider world. With its after–school and weekend sessions comprising of innovative visual learning, numeracy and employability projects, the Making Engineering Hot (MEH) programme introduced and engaged school children to the world of engineering over a nine-month period. It was led by project coordinators (all … Continue reading

Posted on April 17, 2019 by in RAEngWinner, Winner Reports | Comments Off on What Demi Ademuyewo did with her prize money…

What Alex Lyness did with his prize money…

Alex was voted the winner of Health Zone in 2014. Here he reports back on using his £500 prize money to reach his target of visiting ten schools and talk about his engineering career. If you’re an engineer who’d like funding to support your own STEM outreach activities, apply now for I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here at imanengineer.org.uk/engineers I really enjoyed talking part in I’m an Engineer and liked interacting with students, sharing my journey I became a bioengineer, and dispelling myths about how clever you need to be to be an engineer. As soon as I finished, I was inspired to get out from behind the keyboard and go give a series of talks in person at different schools in the UK. To do this I first became a STEM Ambassador which enabled me to talk at secondary schools. I bought a two-year subscription to a very good presentation software … Continue reading

Posted on January 3, 2019 by in Winner Reports, WTWinner | Comments Off on What Alex Lyness did with his prize money…

What Stacey Marple did with her prize money

Stacey was voted the winner of the Smart Materials Zone in June 2017. Here she writes about using the £500 prize money to If you’re an engineer who’d like funding to support your own STEM outreach activities, apply now for I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here at imanengineer.org.uk/engineers I knew I wanted to spend the prize winnings on encouraging students to study and work in STEM fields through engagement, inspiration and developing their STEM skills.  Tall order with £500! So I teamed up with Tech for Life Newcastle to organise an event which would include practical workshops and a panel session.  Most importantly it needed to be led by people working in STEM. I believe it’s really important for the students and parents to meet and talk to real life scientists and engineers. So we set about organising the event, approaching our joint networks to get support and resources. We decided the … Continue reading

Posted on September 27, 2018 by in RAEngWinner, Winner Reports | Comments Off on What Stacey Marple did with her prize money

What Emma Ryan did with her prize money

Emma was voted the winner of the Ampere Zone in March 2017. Here she writes about using the £500 prize money to run materials workshops in schools, involving Lego! If you’re an engineer who’d like funding to support your own STEM outreach activities, apply now for I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here at imanengineer.org.uk/engineers The prize money has allowed me to develop a Materials Workshop for local schools in the area. The workshop is now part of the outreach activities at Lockheed Martin UK and the outreach team will continue to use it. I hope that we can help more students realise that scientists and engineers are normal people. I bought all the Lego with the prize money from I’m an Engineer! Well, that and a few other things. Here is me posing with some of the resources for the Materials Workshop I developed for local schools in the area. The workshop … Continue reading

Posted on August 8, 2018 by in RAEngWinner, Winner Reports | Comments Off on What Emma Ryan did with her prize money

What Ana Gallego did with her prize money

Ana was voted the winner of the Artificial Body Zone in March 2017. Here she writes about using her £500 prize money to create a website about the commonalities between engineering and baking. If you’re an engineer who’d like funding to support your own STEM outreach activities, apply now for I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here at imanengineer.org.uk/engineers The money has been spent in the majority to develop a website (https://www.engineerabake.com/) to upload content related to baking and engineering. My background is materials engineering, and I have always found a big connection between the properties of materials and the foods one can bake at home. I thought that by having a website, I would be able to reach a lot more students and it would be used as a reference tool to use with students and potentially even use them as little workshops or experiments in the future. I purchased a … Continue reading

Posted on July 25, 2018 by in Winner Reports, WTWinner | Comments Off on What Ana Gallego did with her prize money

What Stuart Inglis did with his prize money…

Stuart was voted the winner of Robotics Zone in March 2016. Here he reports on how he used his £500 prize to make his own STEM outreach project happen. If you’re an engineer who’d like funding to support your own STEM outreach activities, apply now for I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here at imanengineer.org.uk/engineers After a rather slow start my miniROV kits have had their first shakedown run at the hands of the next generation of budding engineers! I used the winnings from the Robotics zone of I’m an Engineer 2016 to buy components for building underwater robots or Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). The kits were based on an existing design from Robert Gordon’s University (RGU) which was adapted to make them reusable, so that the money went further and could be used with more pupils. Once all the individual components were bought it was time to dust off the old … Continue reading

Posted on November 22, 2017 by in RAEngWinner, Winner Reports | Comments Off on What Stuart Inglis did with his prize money…

What Michael Sulu did with his prize money

Mike was voted the winner of Production Zone in November 2015. Here he reports back on the outreach activities he was able to do thanks to his £500 prize money. If you’re an engineer who’d like funding to support your own STEM outreach activities, apply now for I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here at imanengineer.org.uk/engineers I had grand plans for the prize money, I think everyone does! But I wasn’t expecting the year to pan out how it did! My first thought was to create a low-cost bioreactor to use as a tool to explain biochemical engineering, but it turns out that ‘low cost’ is a relative term and £500 wouldn’t stretch far enough to allow me to make more than 1! And to make more schools would need some specialist equipment, such as a 3D printer. So I moved the goal posts. Next idea, was to take part in a … Continue reading

Posted on August 2, 2017 by in IETWinner, Winner Reports | Comments Off on What Michael Sulu did with his prize money

What Mohamed Salaheldin did with his prize money…

Mohamed won the Communications Zone in 2015. He donated his prize money to Code Club, read on for how the organisation used the £500. If you’re an engineer who’d like funding to support your own STEM outreach activities, apply now for I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here at imanengineer.org.uk/engineers “At Code Club, we think all children should have the opportunity to learn to code, no matter who they are or where they come from. To do this, we support a nationwide network of volunteers and educators who run free coding clubs for children aged 9-11 to build and share their ideas, learning along the way. Mohamed’s donation of £500 enabled 7 children to have a full year of Code Club sessions (39 club sessions) in 2015. The cost of running a club is split into volunteer recruitment, vetting and training, creation of project resources and ongoing support of … Continue reading

Posted on May 3, 2017 by in IETWinner, Winner Reports | Comments Off on What Mohamed Salaheldin did with his prize money…

What Lizzie Kapasa did with her prize money…

Lizzie won the Artificial Body Zone in June 2015. Since then she has used the £500 prize money to expand her childrens’ engineering book project, ‘Suzie and Ricky’. Here she tells us more. If you’re an engineer who’d like funding to support your own STEM outreach activities, apply now for I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here at imanengineer.org.uk/engineers I could not have dreamed how far my project has come since winning I’m an Engineer in 2015. To everyone involved, I cannot thank all of you enough. Thanks to all of you, I was able to donate the £500 to support this incredible children’s book project, ‘Suzie & Ricky: The Crash Landing’. The overall aim of the children’s book is to inspire primary school children to want to be engineers at a young age. A few days after my win, it was National Women in Engineering Day where we held an … Continue reading

Posted on March 22, 2017 by in Winner Reports, WTWinner | Comments Off on What Lizzie Kapasa did with her prize money…