b'6|IET Futures Fund2022-23 season: IET Faraday 176 Challenge Daysevents were heldThe 2022-23 IET Faraday Challenge Day season was delivered in partnership with 5,786UKRIs Future Flight Partnershipstudents from Teams were tasked with designing a prototype that could support 450 schools and UKRIs Future Flight Challenge with regards to accessibility and ease 1 home-educated teamof use, safety and impact on the environment. 125 We were extremely proud to have delivered 176 IET Faraday Challenge Days in 2022-23, with 450 schools and 5,786 students involved. Students were scored throughout the day on their planning and schools engaged research; development and functionality of the product; use of budget; with, defined as product engineering; the final presentation, and their teamwork and hard to reachattitude throughout. I loved how we got to use our imaginationI found it really fun and it has inspired and we had free rein on our design. Theme to be an engineer when Im older.(high percentage of free schoolOur supporters in 2022-23 included UKRIs Future Flight Challenge,Challenge Leader helped so much and12-year-old boymeals, rural schools and social mobility indicators) GKN Automotive, Keith Thrower OBE FREng FIET, R C Snellingwas so supportive and helpful when we Charitable Trust, The Reece Foundation and UKRI TAS Hub.were completely stuck. I thought I wasExcellent way to promote STEM and terrible at STEM but today proved thatengineering. Kept the students engaged 52% There was a75%increase in students who afterI thought wrong. I am proud of myself throughout, challenging them to think and so pleased to have been given thistowards the next level. Bringing out of participantstaking part in an IET Faraday Challenge Day wouldopportunity. the best in them. were girls. now consider studying or working in engineering. 13-year-old girl Teacher'