b'18 Member News March 2023Solving societal challengesIntroducing our #PresentIn10 2022 Grand Champion Our #PresentIn10 competition is an exciting opportunity for young engineers and technicians (18-35) to develop their virtual skills, pitching a 10-minute presentation about how engineering and technology can help solve societal challenges. Matt Bacarese-Hamilton BEng(Hons)1.Why did you decide to participate4.Do you have any advice for future MSc MIET, Product Manager atin #PresentIn10? participants?Magway, was our Sustainability category winner and was votedI entered for a few reasons, first as aForemost, to take a chance and enter! Grand Champion at the finals, whichchallenge to myself to see how far IYou dont need to have written your took place at the Young Professionalscould level up my presentation skills inpresentation before you do and in fact, Summit in November.a competitive environment, and also toif youre anything like me, signing up share the experience with likemindedwill give you a push to get creating!Following his victory, Member NewsIET members, see the ideas everyone caught up with Matt to discuss hiselse had, and spread a little knowledgePractice might seem an obvious tip, but winning presentation focusing on theabout my topic. it goes such a long way. Deliver it to friends and family first, theres nothing importance of engineers creatinglike a dress-rehearsal to find those last sustainable innovations. 2.What was your presentationbugs, the click that doesnt work or the topic? line you keep forgetting.Ive always wanted a career that lets me make a positive and lasting5. As outlined in our IET Strategy impact. Im lucky to have found that at2030, were committed to a start-up called Magway, where wesupporting the engineering are working to decarbonise logistics.profession in solving climate My presentation was about why thischange challenges. How do you solution is needed and how it allthink engineers will play a partworks. I may be biased, but I highlyin this?recommend giving it a watch!As engineers its easy to focus on the work we do and less on the stories we 3. What was it like participating tell, but to impact change, we need in the competition? everyone working together to make it happen. Its engineers, researchers and It was a really surreal experience! Atdesigners that are essential to finding first it was nerve racking presentinganswers to climate change challengesonline, without the same level ofbut we also need speakers, presenters, feedback as you might get in- and storytellers. person, but as the competition got underway the organisers did a greatIn this competition, I have seen and job of putting everyone at ease. Theheard from so many people with competition heats whirled past, and Ifantastic ideas that I wouldnt have couldnt believe I was through to theknown about if they hadnt entered too. last round, let alone being voted overallSo, I think its up to every engineer to winner! Its been an experience that Italk more, present more and spread the will remember for a very long time. word about the good we can do. Matt Bacarese-Hamilton BEng(Hons) MSc MIETWatch Matts video and learn more about the competition at theiet.org/presentin10'