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• A Wheelie Big Problem Solved!
  ts5.gazettelive.co.uk: 17 June 2008
  Y12 Engineering students at Macmillan Academy have been working on an exciting six month project which has given them insight into the world of science, engineering and technology and has lead to them being nominated for one of the highly prestigious, ‘Community Awards’ at the Cleveland Fire Service Awards Dinner which is to be held on 3rd July 2008.

• Young engineers on show
  www.harlowherald.co.uk: 19 June 2008
  Budding engineering talent from schools across the East of England will be showcased at the Annual Celebration of Engineering day on Thursday July 3.

• Fashion show wows visitors at King James's School
  www.harrogateadvertiser.net: 7 May 2008
  From the award-winning Greenpower Car produced by the Young Engineers Club, laser cutting equipment, examples from students working with resistant materials, product design ideas and textile samples to electronic products, there was even some tasty food nibbles from the hospitality and catering students included in the evening.

• Rapid supports Young Engineers
  www.electronicstalk.com: 5 May 2008
  Rapid is supplying the prize for the winners of a "top secret" practical engineering challenge set on the day. Rapid Electronics has joined Lloyd's Register Educational Trust for a second year as a sponsor of Young Engineers' 2008 programme of Club Showcase events in England and Wales during June and July

• Budding builders
  www.yorkpress.co.uk: 5 May 2008
  Hundreds of budding young engineers from schools across York and North Yorkshire have been invited to take part in a building competition. The Young Engineers event will be held at the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York next month.

• Year in Industry ‘YINI’
  www.ice.org.uk: 2 May 2008
  Whilst traditionally students enter colleges and commence their undergraduate training, increasingly a gap year is becoming more attractive. The Year in Industry is the largest gap year placement provider in the UK specialising in work placements in all aspects of engineering, science, IT & computing, business and many more.

• Pupils engineer a bright future
  icwales.icnetwork.co.uk: 1 May 2008
  A team of engineering boffins at Neath Port Talbot College has helped Corus develop a new system for treating water at the plant. Their creation secured the A-level students runners-up place in the best working model or prototype category at the Engineering Education Scheme Wales Awards.

• Young engineers make right K-nex-ions
  www.dissmercury.co.uk: 29 April 2008
  Elliot Sheppard and Thomas Bowden from Bressingham Primary School were winners of the Diss area heat of the Junior Engineers Knex Challenge at Thurlow Nunn's showroom in Diss. Daniel Yallop and Alex Rackham from Roydon Primary School were runners up.

• Engineering: New way forward
  www.independent.co.uk: 18 April 2008
  An exciting new engineering diploma is about to hit the classroom, says the director of education programmes at The Royal Academy of Engineering.

• Engineering mission for young
  www.nwemail.co.uk: 18 April 2008
  The Royal Academy of Engineering selected Barrow as the first area to start a collaborative project. It aims to help more young people experience and understand engineering and aspire to choose it as a career. The BEST Engineering Programme, Better Engineering, Science and Technology, will be run at secondary schools, Furness College and Barrow Sixth Form College. 

• Making right connections
  www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk: 5 April 2008
  Young construction wizards came together at GE Aviation to stake a claim to represent Gloucestershire in a national competition. Children from 90 Gloucestershire schools battled it out in the K'nex Challenge at the Bishop's Cleeve HQ of the aerospace component manufacturer.

• North Midland Construction posts record £211m
  www.contractjournal.com: 4 April 2008
  For the first time, NMC has issued a separate report on activities such as using recycled materials on site, charity work and involvement in an Engineering Education Scheme with a local school.

• Challenge from Navy for young artificers
  www.portsmouth.co.uk: 29 March 2008
  Youngsters from across the country came to Gosport to try their hand at engineering. About 30 teams competed in this year's final of the Royal Navy Young Engineers Challenge at HMS Sultan.

• Halting the downhill slide into truancy
  www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk: 20 March 2008
  Chris Stead 17, Chris Turner 17, and Thomas Pawinski 16, are working with the Wakefield-based engineer as part of an Engineering Education Scheme. "I began by giving them a brief to design a prototype stand-alone renewable energy source to power instruments used in the wastewater treatment process," said Claire.

• Students' project comes second in national competition
  www.granthamjournal.co.uk: 20 March 2008
  The girls have been working on a project as part of the Engineering Education Scheme, which links teams of students and their teacher with a local company to work on real scientific, engineering and technological problems.

• ‘Ingenious’ idea wins awards for Welsh students
  icwales.icnetwork.co.uk: 13 March 2008
  The students, who won awards with the Engineering Education Scheme for Wales last year, were approached by John Iles from Huntleigh Healthcare, which works closely with the college, to come up with new ways to test foetal heartbeat monitors as they come off the end of the production line.

• Halting the downhill slide into truancy
  www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk: 13 March 2008
  Under the Engineering Education Scheme, engineers from participating companies are partnered with schools to tackle a real engineering design project.

• Students fire catapults in parliament
  www.scenta.co.uk: 12 March 2008
  As part of National Science Week, students were issued a challenge to design, build and market a modern trebuchet or catapult for firing projectiles over castle walls. This task saw participants use their homemade catapults to fire projectiles around the Houses of Parliament.

• Future soldier - from fiction to the frontline
  www.gnn.gov.uk: 12 March 2008
  They were just a few of the gadgets and technologies on show at the Future Soldier event, held today at London's National Army Museum to coincide with National Science and Engineering Week (7-16 March).

• Rain water loo wins first prize
  www.thisisbristol.co.uk: 12 March 2008
  Young engineers from Redland High School have seen off competition from 19 other schools to win a competition. The girls, aged 13 and 14, won the Go4Set contest run by the Engineering Development Trust.