{"id":1034,"date":"2025-07-17T16:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:59:28","slug":"students-take-on-university-style-engineering-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/students-take-on-university-style-engineering-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Students take on university-style engineering challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Year 10 and 12 students in the Mulberry STEM Academy recently took part in an exciting university-style engineering competition led by Mulberry Academy Shoreditch.<\/p>\n<p>Working for three weeks in teams beyond the classroom, students designed, built, programmed and tested a robotic moving vehicle.<br \/>\nThe challenge concluded with a high-energy competition day, where teams navigated their robots through a series of tracks and obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>Students also created engineering-style posters to present their design thinking and problem-solving process \u2013 developing not just technical skills, but also creativity, teamwork and real-world STEM confidence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Engineering-challenge-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Engineering-challenge-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Engineering-challenge-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Engineering-challenge-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Engineering-challenge-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Year 10 and 12 students in the Mulberry STEM Academy recently took part in an exciting university-style engineering competition led by Mulberry Academy Shoreditch. Working for three weeks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mulberryschoolstrust.org\/stemacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}