b'6 Member News November 2023Member updatesOut of this world competition winnersBack in the summer we announced our latest Engineer a Better World campaign, which aims to broaden childrens understanding of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) via their passion points in a fun and educational way. Using football and space, we asked children to design the very first Moon United football kitafter we worked with a panel of engineers and technologists to realistically imagine what Lunar football may look like, and how it could be played. 8-13 category winner by Erim, aged 134-7 category winner by Ishaani, aged 7The Engineer a Better World campaign is aimed at children aged 4-13 and their influencers geared towards changing the outgrown perceptions of the engineering industry. We want to encourage more young people Lunar football looks very differentcolourful space themed design.to be inspired by, and think to Earth football, as our expertsIshaani hopes to one day playabout, a potential future, both predict it to be a non-contactfootball on the Moonand shedin studying STEM and looking sport, with no out-of-bounds play.take her little sister with her too.towards careers in engineering It will have a larger ball, a largerby engaging them through their goal and flexible suits with ARErim, aged 13, from Middlesex,passion points and hobbies. helmets to deal with the harshwon our 8-13 category. As conditions of space.an aspiring engineer, Erim incorporated engineering With two age categories, thethroughout her kit with the idea competition attracted over 500of a sweat collectorto collect entries from the across UK andsweat and turn it into reusable following a competitive judgingwater as astronauts play, as process, our winners were chosen. well as including a nod to role model Mae Jemisonwho Ishaani, aged 7, from Coventry wonwas the first African American our 4-7 category with her verywoman to go to the Moon. At the time of print we had not announced our winners publiclykeep an eye out for more information about their stories,and winning designs via: eabw.theiet.org.'