Schools Aerospace Challenge
Win a place on a free five night residential course at the School of Engineering, Cranfield University starting on 21 July 2019.
The Schools Aerospace Challenge is the annual Team Design Exercise for 16 to 18 year olds. This year we gave young thinkers one of the RAF's toughest challenges - to design a Hypersonic Transport Aircraft. To register a team please go to our website www.aerospacechallenge.org and you could be in with a chance of joining us for the Challenge at Cranfield University this summer: There, amongst othe
Just a reminder to submit all final design solution on no more than five pages (sides) of A4 by midnight tomorrow (31st May 2020)! Good luck
01/01/2020
Thank you to everyone who made 2019 such a success, looking forward to Aerospace Challenge 2020!
(Event images - Jake Felix Goldhill)
29/11/2019
26/11/2019
Last but definitely not least, thank you to Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) for hosting our awards in such a fine venue :-)
26/11/2019
Thank you to all our wonderful sponsors, without whom none of this would have been possible Raytheon Rolls-Royce plc Flightglobal Planefocus
Reaction Engines Meggitt Cranfield University QinetiqQ
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
26/11/2019
Congratulations to our overall 1st place winners and recipients of the John Farley Memorial Award 2019, team Dye Hard from School in Kent
26/11/2019
Congratulations to Team Croes Gorllewin, 2nd place winners
26/11/2019
Congratulations to Team Soteria in 3rd place, from School in Kent
26/11/2019
Our 2019 awards ceremony took place last night, and it was an absolute pleasure to be able to award this year's inspiring young people
The three teams presenting their submissions at the Awards Ceremony Monday 25th November and competing for the John Farley Memorial Trophy will be:
Croes Gorllewin
Dye Hard
Soteria
This year was at an extremely high standard and all teams should be justifiably proud to have made it to Cranfield. It was a hard decision for us to make, and we are only sorry that not everyone can receive a share of the prize fund. Well done to all and we look forward to seeing the winners again in November.
After much deliberation and consideration, the results for SAC 2019 are as follows:
The 5 teams sharing the prize fund and invited to attend the Awards Ceremony at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London on Monday 25th November to receive their cheques are:
In alphabetical order:
Aether
Croes Gorllewin
Dye Hard
Orion
Soteria
24/07/2019
For some reason there's a queue forming to sit in a Spitfire... ;-) Always time for some fun at
24/07/2019
Lots of enthusiasm all round almost looks like is enjoyable ;-)
24/07/2019
At The Shuttleworth Collection this morning, working with WWI aircraft
We are delighted to announce that The judging is complete and the results are in! After being presented with a wealth of quality entries, the teams that have been selected to go through to the Cranfield Aerospace Experience Week (21 – 26 July) are Team:
CROES GORLLEWIN
DRONE-BE-GONE SYSTEMS
NOVA
ORION
REPTON REVOLUTION
DYE HARD
SOTERIA
MOD
AETHER
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Congratulations and well done, Team Captains will shortly receive email notification of the joining instructions for Cranfield.
Thank you to all our entrants, the judges had a tough job to do as the standard was very high, well done to everyone who entered.
21/05/2019
Not long now until all submissions are in, excited to see this year's original and innovative entries
07/05/2019
Looking forward to working with all our sponsors for this year's challenge!
With the support of the following businesses we are supporting young people with drive and creativity to innovate for the future
30/03/2019
What are you waiting for? Teams from schools, Air Training Corps and other youth organisations are very welcome to enter, entry deadline is fast approaching.
Have you got what it takes? Find out - get started on the Schools Aerospace Challenge 2019!
https://schools-aerospace-challenge.com/
04/02/2019
Delighted to have Rolls-Royce Plc as one of our sponsors again this year
23/01/2019
Schools Aerospace Challenge helps 16-18 year olds enter the real world of aviation and engineering by putting their imagination and skills to the test! Apply now to enter our 2019 challenge https://schools-aerospace-challenge.com/
Wow! What a night. Well done to all the teams and CONGRATULATIONS to Team Sikorsky from Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe for picking up the very first John Farley Memorial Award, winners, Schools Aerospace Challenge 2018.
Well done those teams who submitted on time. Now we've got the tough job of selecting the Top 12 to invite to Cranfield. Answers on Monday folks.
Just 13 days to go until the 2018 submissions close. Still time to get yours in!
Two months to go before submission deadline. It's going to be tough judging this year with so many good entries so far.
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