Faraday Competition Winners 2025
Congratulations to our Removes for competing in and winning this year’s ITE Faraday Competition!
This STEM competition challenges students to research, design, and prototype solutions to real-world engineering problems.
Jesse shared a full recap of the day:
I (Jesse), Maisey, William P, Daniil, William H and Charlotte attended the Faraday competition on Tuesday 4th of February. It is a competition run by IET based on engineering, based at Woodford County and there were five other schools there.
Our challenge was to create an invention that would help someone in one of these categories: a disabled person, someone who plays sports, or a child in need of education. Whatever we made had to also be reusable and sustainable. We chose to help someone who does sports, specifically cycling. Our base idea was to create a solar powered fan that would attach to bike handles and cool the rider down when the atmosphere got to hot. We were given a set budget of £120 (fake money obviously!) to buy from the shop full of supplies.
In the team everyone was given different roles. I had the role of Project Manager and I looked over ideas and wrote the plan. Maisey was the accountant and kept track of money and made sure we did not go over the budget. Danil was Head of Tech and made the core circuitry, William H was the Builder and created the outside layer of the project, while Charlotte was the Designer and made it look aesthetically pleasing. William P was in charge of sustainability and making sure that the project and materials fit the criteria.
Unfortunately, in the building process we hit a problem with the circuitry. The solar panels wouldn’t collect the heat from the light provided to create power and because of this we had to switch from solar power to battery power.When our moral was low and we were about to give up, Dr Ahmed came through and gave us a motivational speech that made everything better and it really helped us get into the right mindset. Although it was less sustainable with battery power, it worked more efficiently. In the end we had to present our project to the rest of the groups and the judge – and thankfully we won!
Overall, I think it was a really fun day and a great opportunity to learn more about engineering.
