Primary Engineer

Founded in 2005, Primary Engineer is an educational not-for-profit organisation which aims to engage both primary and secondary school pupils and teachers with the vast and inspirational world of engineering and technology.

We work with businesses and industry across the UK to help develop a future, diverse generation of engineering and technology professionals.

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5 Neon quality-assured activities

Primary

If you were an engineer, what would you do?

A UK-wide STEM competition tasking students with interviewing an engineer, and identifying a problem in the world around them they want to solve.

  • Externally led
  • Enrichment activity
  • Competition or challenge
  • In-school
  • Ages 3 to 7
  • Ages 7 to 11
  • Multi-session - set days
  • Free
Secondary

If you were an engineer, what would you do?

A UK-wide STEM competition tasking students with interviewing an engineer, and identifying a problem in the world around them they want to solve.

  • Externally led
  • Enrichment activity
  • Competition or challenge
  • In-school
  • Ages 11 to 14
  • Ages 14 to 16
  • Ages 11 to 18+
  • Ages 14 to 18+
  • Multi-session - set days
  • Free
Primary

Meet an Engineer: Live Engineer Interview Series

An opportunity to meet inspiring engineers through Primary Engineer's annual live engineer interview series.

  • Externally led
  • Enrichment activity
  • Talk or speaker
  • Online
  • Ages 3 to 7
  • Ages 7 to 11
  • Up to an hour
  • Free
Secondary

Meet an Engineer: Live Engineer Interview Series

An opportunity to meet inspiring engineers through Primary Engineer's annual live engineer interview series.

  • Externally led
  • Enrichment activity
  • Talk or speaker
  • Online
  • Ages 11 to 14
  • Ages 14 to 16
  • Ages 11 to 18+
  • Ages 14 to 18+
  • Up to an hour
  • Free
Primary

Primary Engineer Programmes

A practical hands-on fully funded STEM project worth over £1000 with teaching resources and links to engineers

  • Teacher-led
  • Enrichment activity
  • Project
  • In-school
  • Ages 3 to 7
  • Ages 7 to 11
  • Multi-session - set days
  • Free