b'10 Member News July 2023EducationIET FIRSTLEGO League FinalThis year in March and April we welcomed children from The RealTechBots scoredacross the UK to our FIRST LEGO League Great Britain Final. a total of 355 points in the Robot Game!The Great Britain final held inwinners title was a team of three Harrogate, UK, saw over 2000 youngbudding engineers from Bracknell,The winning team was from Berkshire people, spectators, team coaches andBerkshire, dubbed the RealTechBots. and made up of three girls aged 11+. The VIPs attend. On the day, 70 teamsRealTechBots will represent the UK on participated and taking the overallFor the STEM (science, technology,the global stage at the FIRST LEGO engineering and maths) challenge, League World Festival in Marrakesh.teams had to build a robot to tackle a series of missions and create anThe teams success, from winning their innovative solution to a real-worldregional tournament in Denham to problem. This years competition waswinning the Great Britain National Final called SUPERPOWERED SMand wasto representing the UK at the FIRST designed to explore how energyLEGO League World Festival, shows is created, stored, distributed andhow FIRST LEGO League provides consumed, and how we can make children with STEM experiences they the energy journey more efficient. wont forget.For more information about FIRST LEGO League, visit:FLL All England Final winners RealTechBots education.theiet.org/first-lego-league-programmes New STEM competitionMoon United! With a NASA Lunar mission scheduled for 2025, andmoon surfaceall throughto be inspired by, and think the Womens FIFA World Cup just around the corner,the power of STEM! about, a potential future in were challenging 4-13s to use their STEM skills toengineering.imagine how football could be played on the moon.Campaign manager, Rebecca Gillick, says: Year onThe competition opens on The IETs Engineer a Betterdifferently about whatyear, weve seen a steady18 July and runs until 15 World campaign broadensengineering means to them. improvement in childrensSeptember 2023. Entrants childrens understandingperceptions of engineeringmust send their football kit of science, technology,This year, weve chosenand their interest in pursuingdesign, along with a few engineering and mathsfootball and space, taskingSTEM subjects at school.sentences on why they (STEM) via their passionchildren to design the veryThis, for us, is what itswould love to play football points in a fun andfirst Moon United footballall aboutwe want toon the moon and how they educational way. To date,kita specially designedencourage more youngwould adapt their design to thousands of young peoplestrip for Lunar footballers ofpeople from all backgroundswork in space.have explored STEM throughthe future. And thats not the lens of technology,itweve brought together fashion, food, popular culturea panel of IET engineers toFrom the launch date, entry forms and further Moon and sport - all whilst thinkingrealistically imagine how theUnited education resources will be available on our game could be played on thewebsite: eabw.theiet.org'