{"id":1053,"date":"2019-02-27T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T10:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2019-02-27T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T10:28:44","slug":"final-call-to-enter-free-engineering-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/final-call-to-enter-free-engineering-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Call to Enter Free Engineering Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leadersaward.com\/\">Leaders Award<\/a>\u00a0is a free competition for children in which you can challenge your pupils to come up with engineering solutions to everyday problems. But the deadline (27th March) is fast approaching\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Primary Engineer &amp; Secondary Engineer Leaders Award introduction\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iEBKcUcm30Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kids taking part in the Leaders Award are encouraged to talk to local engineers, but also have the opportunity to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/meet-an-engineer\/\">tune into live interviews<\/a>&nbsp;with scientists and pose their questions to these experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get your school&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/\">registered<\/a>&nbsp;to take part in the Leaders Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your school wants to be involved in any of the interviews please register your interest via email to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@leadersaward.com\">info@leadersaward.com<\/a>&nbsp;and they will&nbsp; keep you posted on their schedule. And you can read more about it here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/curiositybristol.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/leadersaward-2019-flyer.pdf\">leadersaward 2019 flyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The awards are supported by the University of the West of England, Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Originally posted by Louisa Cockbill on the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/curiositybristol.net\/2019\/02\/24\/final-call-to-enter-free-engineering-competition\/\"><em>Curiosity Connections blog<\/em><\/a><em>, 24<\/em><sup><em>th<\/em><\/sup><em> February 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Leaders Award\u00a0is a free competition for children in which you can challenge your pupils to come up with engineering solutions to everyday problems. But the deadline (27th March) is fast approaching\u2026 Kids taking part in the Leaders Award are encouraged to talk to local engineers, but also have the opportunity to&nbsp;tune into live interviews&nbsp;with scientists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/final-call-to-enter-free-engineering-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Final Call to Enter Free Engineering Competition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24,18,17],"tags":[26,72],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leaders-awards","category-outreach","category-schools","category-teaching","tag-curiosity-connections","tag-leaders-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}