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The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Ocean Health Challenge 2024 is a national engineering design challenge for 11-18 year old secondary school and college students.

"We are excited to engage young minds across the UK in tackling the critical issue of ocean plastic pollution through engineering innovation," says Dr Fiona Truscott.Ìý"This challenge not only celebrates our rich history of engineering education at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê but also empowers the next generation to contribute to sustainable solutions for our planet."

The competition uses principles from the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Undergraduate 'Integrated Engineering Programme', on whichÌýFiona leads on a cross-Faculty module taken by first year students across disciplines. This Engineering Challenges module sees students work in teams to investigate a problem themed around issues with global impact, and create a solution.

Fiona says, "As part of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Ocean Health ChallengeÌýwe've created high quality teaching resources including videos, suggested lesson plans and student activities, that can be used flexibility by teachers within their classrooms as they work through this challenge with their students. In developing this course we've used the same approach that we take with our undergraduate teaching, an applied, skills based approach that can incorporate different topic areas and provide space for students' and teachers' creativity."

You can find out more about the 2024 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Ocean Health Challenge here.

More on the Integrated Engineering Programme here.
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