b'4 Member News July 2020IET headlinesThe start of 2020 has been busyfor us all. Our experts have answered a range of media enquiries, resultingI am a pioneerin national press coverage, such as the Financial Times, the Observer andI am an innovatorBBC News Online. Our more recent media work has focused on responsesI AM NOT JUSTto the coronavirus pandemic. A WOMANAt the start of February, we contributedI am a leaderto National Apprenticeships Week where Young Woman Engineer of the Year 2019I AM AN ENGINEERfinalist, Charlotte Buffey, an apprentice at Rolls-Royce, spoke to radio stations across the UK to share her experiences of being anOn International Womens Day (8 March), apprentice and why she chose this route. we launched the call for entries for this years Young Woman Engineer of theYear Awards. As well as coverage featuring in key trade press, such as Engineering Update, Connecting Industry and FE News, we also worked with our 2019 winners and finalists to share their stories and drive entries from their local areas. This resulted in media coverage in the Derby Telegraph, Scarborough News and BBC Radio Bristol.We supported the inaugural World Engineering Day for Sustainable Developmenton 4 March. Team Build-a-bots from Wicklow Montessori Primary School were crowned our All-Ireland champions in Dublin. A day to celebrate engineering and its role in sustainable development, Also in February, and at the start of March, ourwe wanted to highlight the three national FIRST LEGO League Finals tookachievements of engineers and engineering in our modern world. place in Bristol, Perth and Dublin. James Robottom, Sustainability and Climate Change Lead This resulted in regional media coverage across the UK andat the IET, was interviewed by over 60 commercial and Ireland covering the results, with ITV West Country Newscommunity radio stations talking about the day and how attending the Bristol Final to film the event and interviewengineering and technology is fundamental to society and a participants. You can read more about the finals on page 12. sustainable future. An article also featured in Politics Home.'