b'4 Member News March 2020IET headlinesIn the News In October, we revealed the winners of our Global Challenge. Media Highlights A team of PhD students from Malaysia developed reusable packaging for supermarkets and Team Baywatchers developed a crab-like robot concept to collect cigarette butts from beaches. BBC Radio Oxford and Heart The last quarter of 2019 was a busy but excitingCambridgeshire interviewed Team Baywatchers and Yahoo time for the IET; we launched a clarinet to the edgeSingapore covered Team NanoMalaysias story. of space, we celebrated outstanding women in engineering at our annual Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards, and we partnered with the fantastic Steve Backshall to launch our 2019 Santa Loves STEM campaign. In September, we announced the winner of our IET Life on Mars competitionTeam NanoMalaysia featured on Yahoo Singaporewith iconic comic, the Beano. We turned 10-year-old Elins interstellar clarinet design into a real-life prototype and sent it to the edge of space. This exciting story gained 85 pieces of fantastic coverage, from The Times newspaper and BBC Music Magazine to Radio X and Classic FM!In November, we launched Team Baywatchers from Oxfordshire, UKour 2019 Santa Loves STEMcampaign video with BBCtelevision presenter, Later in November, weSteve Backshall.also published our 2019IET Skills and Demand IET Skills andThe story is all about Santas Demand in Industry children and how they used in Industry report. 2019 Survey their science, technology, The report shows that 1 in 2 UK engineering and maths engineering and technology firms (STEM) skills to save Christmas.are concerned that a shortage Lots of key engineering and of engineers in the UK is a threat trade media covered this story, to their business. We received including Engineering Update a lot of coverage for this report, and FE News. including Politics Home, Skytheiet.org/skillsNews Radio, LBC and talkRADIO.SSD3464 Skills & Demand in Indusrty 2019 Survey Report-v6.indd 1 12/11/2019 13:22The video has been viewed over169,000 times across our platforms! To find out more about the Skills Survey, please go to page 7.'