{"id":1412,"date":"2019-08-13T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2019-08-31T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T11:10:00","slug":"primary-engineer-launches-the-2019-leaders-award-competition-to-inspire-students-interested-in-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/primary-engineer-launches-the-2019-leaders-award-competition-to-inspire-students-interested-in-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Engineer launches the 2019 Leaders Award competition to inspire students interested in engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official launch event for the 2019 edition of the \u201cIf you were an engineer, what would you do?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/\">Leaders Award<\/a> competition from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Primary-Engineer-196854127023558\/?__tn__=K-R&amp;eid=ARCHuUb7M_vZRcqWhoMxtIQXthKGlmF58heQOWhMndXuZ1nLKTtFvhXGsP2vL7vtycgho2oY54iNv4uW&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAxfzkW9AshExiTm9BIldYtnTbOF-8lK2ZnVHxFz8cT-cIZgRa79rZcvgS8FFB1FxLWWNqo7yOizXH5ICh06-aBj3jfrIBNaR6IZck0neIpLwyCq5eOuAJm4V49FM1nlzm7wto4w83YfWRJTfVUqb1ZyRBiHUI1gnOniTcBX8W4kdrRmKFUSQ3-4MpM5U8hxpQ2-P8cVFiL1Kvmet7GinQqwFil-6OLDq3mgg4xAXMKYACAwSjX1FJIcagWicWziCVDHiL1YedEAhuiNwhx3ybdrR8i0o94baC3whlg918mGxNifSXFtvu6FUy1R1tdXu4Z0fWjLudnPuYbcvfwo3uTtkgnuIYXVqiBXvjPSBNLxXNvrJO6\">Primary Engineer<\/a> has taken place to Gatwick Airport&#8217;s North Terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/DJwAPouWkAIspYz-510x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/DJwAPouWkAIspYz-510x155.jpg 510w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/DJwAPouWkAIspYz-510x155-300x91.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 85vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By asking the question, &#8220;If you were an engineer, what would you do?&#8221;, the competition encourages school students across the UK to design inventions that solve real problems. UWE Bristol supports the Leaders Award in the Southwest, including hosting grading days at which all entries are graded by engineering professionals. Winning designs from around the country are built by university and industry-led teams, including one from UWE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can watch the original Facebook Live broadcast of Primary Engineer director Chris Rochester opening the event, alongside Dr. Susan Scurlock MBE (founder of Primary Engineer) and representatives from the three national sponsors, Gatwick Airport, National Rail and Facebook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you spot our winning build design from this year, Philippa Griffiths&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/winning-leaders-award-prototype-unveiled-at-exhibition-at-uwe-bristol\/\">Red Line Braking System<\/a> built by our UWE student engineers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-facebook\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v4.0\"><\/script><div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebooklondon\/videos\/481417732433047\/\" data-width=\"840\"><blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebooklondon\/videos\/481417732433047\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebooklondon\/videos\/481417732433047\/\">Primary Engineer launches the 2019 Leaders Award competition to inspire students interested in engineering<\/a><p>We are very excited to bring you the official launch event for the 2019 edition of the \u201cIf you were an engineer, what would you do?\u201d competition from Primary Engineer. This competition encourages 50,000 students aged 3 to 19 from across the UK to submit ideas for inventions that solve real problems in their communities; all entries are graded by engineering professionals and the winning designs are built by university and industry-led teams. The initiative aims to address the shortage of engineering professionals in the workforce: the UK Government says that over 200,000 new engineers are required per year to meet the demands of modern society. Delivering the opening remarks is Dr. Susan Scurlock MBE, founder of Primary Engineer, accompanied by representatives from the three national sponsors:Stewart Wingate (CEO of Gatwick Airport), Andy Doherty (CTO of Network Rail), and Rachel Burton (HR director of EMEA engineering, Facebook).<\/p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebooklondon\/\">Facebook London<\/a> on Tuesday, 13 August 2019<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s also more about the launch event <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/facebook-gatwick-airport-and-network-rail-join-forces-with-primary-engineer-to-help-identify-engineers-in-the-making\/\">here<\/a> from Primary Engineer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official launch event for the 2019 edition of the \u201cIf you were an engineer, what would you do?\u201d Leaders Award competition from\u00a0Primary Engineer has taken place to Gatwick Airport&#8217;s North Terminal. By asking the question, &#8220;If you were an engineer, what would you do?&#8221;, the competition encourages school students across the UK to design &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/primary-engineer-launches-the-2019-leaders-award-competition-to-inspire-students-interested-in-engineering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Primary Engineer launches the 2019 Leaders Award competition to inspire students interested in engineering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-leaders-awards","category-outreach","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}