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The STEM Learning resource collection has many engineering resources that you may find useful to celebrate World Engineering Day – or simply to add to your SoW. Have a look here: https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/508594/world-engineering-day-4th-march

The resources include This is Engineering from the Royal Academy of Engineering, which has many short videos featuring the work of engineers and the impact they have on solving problems. As ever, these are easy to incorporate into lessons without major re-planning, so a low effort, quick win to celebrate World Engineering Day with your students. https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/448958/engineering

My favourite resource in this collection has to be the Formula for Thrills game, from Siemens. Book a computer room or use your class devices to work through the levels to design an exciting (yet safe) rollercoaste. Perhaps a nice online homework to set? https://formulaforthrillsgame.co.uk/

In my experience, showing that engineering and physics are used to solve world problems helps to engage girls with the subject – the Engineering a Better World resources may be useful if this is something that you would like to address https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/467672/engineering-better-world There are also other resources that link to sustainability which may be of use.

Any Dallas Campbell fans out there will enjoy the Everyday Engineering clips - https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/collection/471745/everyday-engineering including one of my all-time favourite titles - how bras inspired the spacesuit!

If you missed the recent blog on Born to Engineer (videos of different engineering roles) have a look here https://community.stem.org.uk/blogs/linda-crouch/2025/01/17/born-to-engineer-resource-review?CommunityKey=9df870a3-aa32-487b-8cd5-310332830aa0