GMEC team awarded Highly Commended in the Making a Difference Award for Social Responsibility 2022
Recognition for the campaign’s outstanding public and community engagement.
Dr Lynne Bianchi, Director
The Making a Difference Awards recognise the outstanding achievements of The University of Manchester’s staff, students, alumni and external partners and celebrate how they are making a difference.
Pupil’s research into sustainability for GMEC 2021
The GMEC (Greater Manchester Engineering Challenge) campaign engages pupils in real-life engineering contexts, linking with esteemed industry and academic partners to bring engaging learning into classrooms, in Greater Manchester and beyond. Last night, the GMEC team were delighted to be recognised for the campaign’s outstanding public and community engagement.
An engineer visits a classroom to discuss ideas during GMEC 2021
Last year’s campaign saw pupils working to create sustainable communities with the civil engineering theme. They had opportunities to learn from and share their ideas with industry and academic professionals working in this area. This enabled the children to develop and use ‘Engineering Habits of Mind’ to create real solutions to contemporary engineering problems.
With thanks to our partners in the construction industry (including Civic Engineers, Vinci Construction, Balfour Beatty and Siemens) for enabling the project to bring authentic engineering practise into classroom, read more about this aspect of the project in the New Civil Engineering online magazine.
GMEC is evolving! A new national campaign will launch before summer, the Engineering Educates Challenge. The challenge will start with an Agri-engineering theme in partnership with the NFU (National Farmers’ Union). This new campaign will enable the team’s approach to engineering pedagogy to reach even more young people and bring cross-curricula learning. The contemporary and highly engaging theme of farming will be the context for the young people’s development of engineering solutions to real farming issues such as sustainability.
Read more about the Engineering Educates Challenge here