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The Challenge Committee is pleased to invite senior engineers in industry to become guest judges for this year’s Apprentice Automation Challenge. This is your chance to be a part of the event that helps develop the skills and experience of new apprentice engineers by assessing their work and provide constructive feedback to establish the winners.
Judges will be paired with experienced members of the committee and given clear guidance on how to assess submitted work. To put yourself forward, simply email the Challenge team with some details about your current role and experience and we will be in touch.
We look forward to receiving your application before 21 June 2024 and discussing in further detail!
We are looking for volunteers in the following areas:
Judges for report marking
Based remotely, you will be part of a group of judges tasked with reading and marking design, business and cost report submissions from several teams and assisting the lead judges with feedback to provide final scoring of their work. This is expected to take a few hours and can be done in several sessions ahead of the scoring deadlines.
Judges for Challenge finals
You will be a part of a group of judges at the live finals event, taking place on 27 September 2024 at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry. You will take part in the presentation events led by apprentice teams, assessing their responses, asking questions about their work and assisting lead judges with feedback to provide scoring.
Enjoy a day out of the office at a busy engineering event and get the opportunity to meet and network with entrants, their companies and the committee of senior engineers working across multiple industries.
About the challenge:
The Apprentice Automation Challenge provides a brilliant opportunity for talented apprentices to compete in an innovative design and manufacturing challenge to automate an everyday device.
Organised by the Institution's Manufacturing Industries Division’s Young Members Committee, it engages with teams of apprentice engineers to design, develop and build a fully working system that solves a real-world problem.
Teams submit a report covering the design specification, manufacturing instructions, user manual and a business case for the mass production and sale of the product.