Competition Support

• PDF - Official Guidance Notes for YEB Entrants
• PDF - Official How to Display and Present Your YEB Project or Portfolio
• PDF - Official YEB Judging sheet

Getting Inspiration and coming up with project ideas

The Intel Design and Discovery programme offers modules for teaching 11 to 15 year olds: Understanding the Design Process, Engineering Fundamentals, Thinking Creatively, Making, Modelling, and Materializing, Prototyping and Final Presentations.

Help With Project Managment - Get it Done!

The student guide to managing projects is packed with sound advice, planning forms and chcklists that you can use to keep your project on track. The booklets cost £2.50 and are available from Sheffield Hallam University, Tel: 0114 225 4870, to place an order.

Examples of presentation material from winning projects

Use this selection of pages from a 2004 YEB national finalist to get a feel for the sort of presentation and detail that gets top marks from our judges. They also formed part of his A level course work, so he didn’t have to double up on his work.

Download pages from Richard's project

Download Adobe Acrobat Reader (needed to view project pages)

Richard and his Elevating Wheelchair went onto the where he won a first award.

Patent Advice

A marketable invention could be eligible for a patent. To qualify, an invention must be new, involve an inventive step and be capable of industrial application. It is important that you research intellectual property rights for your project before showing the project to the general public (which includes our regional and national finals).  The Patent Office has produced a special free resource to help schools and students learn about the power of trade marks, copyright, registered designs and patents.  The resource called "Think Kit" can be ordered from the Patent Office.

Enquiries about Think Kits Tel: 01633 814703 Fax: 01633 814590 Email: market@patent.gov.uk

Order copies of Think Kit: Tel: 020 74014070 Fax: 0230 74014001 Email: requests@edcoms.co.uk

Other activities you could enter your project for

Don’t forget to tell us about any success you have in these or other competitions!