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IET Faraday® Challenge Day 2022-23 National Final - Highlights

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  • Duration: 2 mins
  • Publication date: 18 Jul 2023

Abstract

The top five teams from the 2022-23 season league table attended the IET Faraday® Challenge Day National Final on Thursday 29 June 2023 at the Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC) at Cranfield University to compete for the season’s winning title and £1000 for their school. This year’s challenge was in association with UKRI’s Future Flight Challenge and tasked teams to design a prototype that could support UKRI’s Future Flight Challenge with regards to accessibility and ease of use, safety and impact on the environment.

A total of 176 events took place across the UK to host the 2022-23 IET Faraday® Challenge Days. Up to six teams of local school students competed at each event to find the best solution to the engineering-related challenge.

Keywords:
  • Engineering a Better World
  • Future Flight Challenge
  • IET
  • Inspiring the next generation
  • Institution of engineering and technology
  • drone project
  • engineering challenge
  • engineering community
  • hands on engineering
  • school participation
  • science technology engineering mathematics (stem)
  • stem enrichment program

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  • Michelle Richmond

    Michelle Richmond

    IET, Director, Membership and Professional Development

    Michelle works at the IET as the Director of Membership and Professional Development. Having begun her career as an apprentice, she’s worked her way up from microwave design engineering to managing complex military projects for private companies. A past Young Women Engineer of the Year, after around 25 years in industry she then made the jump to working for a professional body.Today Michelle Richmond may be in charge of 120 staff and a P&L of £16m, however, her engineering roots began as a humble apprentice. At 16 she had itchy feet and was determined to leave school and enter the workplace. She appeased her parents request for furthering her education by applying for an apprenticeship.“I applied for two possible apprenticeships, one in banking the other in engineering. It was a practical decision. I come from a family of engineers, both my mother and father had done apprenticeships and so they been through the process and knew that they lead to completely full careers,” she says.Offered the engineering placement first, Richmond began her career on the shop floor, moving around departments to get a feel for the industry. She fell in love with microwave engineering whilst in the microwave test lab and focused on this as her specialism. After finding a passion for this subject matter, she worked towards a degree part-time, taking the graduate route towards becoming a microwave design engineer. This then developed into managerial roles as development manager, then moving on to operations and programme manager positions.
  • David Lakin

    David Lakin

    IET, Head of Education, Safeguarding and Education

  • VM

    Vicki Murdie

    UK Research and Innovation, Innovation Lead, Future Flight Cghallenge

  • AF

    Ama Frimpong

    Ama Frimpong is Head of Product Development at 52 North Health. Ama manages the company’s engineering teams in the development of NeutroCheck®. NeutroCheck is a low-cost, portable device that helps identify people living with cancer who are at risk of neutropenic sepsis - a life-threatening medical emergency occurring in immunosuppressed chemotherapy patients.Ama has made a lifelong commitment to volunteering as an ambassador, advocate and mentor to support and inspire more young people into STEM.
  • KH

    Keira Hart

    IET Faraday Challenge Leader

  • LS

    Lynsey Steadman

    Thomas Alleyne Academy, Teacher

  • OH

    Oliver Hardman

    Fallibroome Academy, Teacher

  • Ama Frimpong

    Ama Frimpong

    Ama Frimpong is Head of Product Development at 52 North Health. Ama manages the company’s engineering teams in the development of NeutroCheck®. NeutroCheck is a low-cost, portable device that helps identify people living with cancer who are at risk of neutropenic sepsis - a life-threatening medical emergency occurring in immunosuppressed chemotherapy patients.Ama has made a lifelong commitment to volunteering as an ambassador, advocate and mentor to support and inspire more young people into STEM.
  • AF

    Ama Frimpong

    Ama Frimpong is Head of Product Development at 52 North Health. Ama manages the company’s engineering teams in the development of NeutroCheck®. NeutroCheck is a low-cost, portable device that helps identify people living with cancer who are at risk of neutropenic sepsis - a life-threatening medical emergency occurring in immunosuppressed chemotherapy patients.Ama has made a lifelong commitment to volunteering as an ambassador, advocate and mentor to support and inspire more young people into STEM.
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